G. Pickaert et al., Synthesis and coordinative properties of a hybrid bis(diphenylphosphino)methane-terpyridine, CHEM COMMUN, (13), 2000, pp. 1125-1126
A newly-synthesized 4'-[bis(diphenylphosphino)methane]-2,2':6',2"-terpyridi
ne-based (dppm-terpy) ligand forms complexes by selective complexation of t
he terpy or diphos segment, respectively, with Fe(II) or Pd(II) salts; in t
he latter case, an X-ray structural analysis reveals the formation of a neu
tral square-planar complex assembled from the deprotonated ligands.