F. Bagnoli et al., NEW PREPARATIVE ACCESS TO AND THE CRYSTAL AND MOLECULAR-STRUCTURES OFCIS-[PTCL2(CO)(2)], Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton transactions, (23), 1996, pp. 4317-4318
cis-Dicarbonyldichloroplatinum(II) has been found to be the thermodyna
mically stable species arising from: (a) carbonylation of [NBu(4)](2)[
PtCl4] in the presence of AlCl3, (b) chlorination of [PtI2(CO)(2)]-[Pt
2I4(CO)(2)] with SO2Cl2 under CO and (c) carbonylation of PtCl2; the c
rystal and molecular structures of cis-[PtCl2(CO)(2)] showed a short C
-O distance [average 1.115(7) Angstrom] and intermolecular Pt ... Pt a
nd C ... Cl contacts of less than 3.4 Angstrom.