740815-92-3Relevant articles and documents
Protolytic stability of (dfepe)Pt(Ph)O2CCF3: Supporting evidence for a concerted SE2 protonolysis mechanism
Kalberer, Eric W.,Houlis, James F.,Roddick, Dean M.
, p. 4112 - 4115 (2004)
An extension of prior protonolysis studies of platinum-carbon bonds to Pt-aryl bonds is reported. The protolytic stability of (dfepe)Pt(Ph)(O 2CCF3) (dfepe = C2F5) 2PCH2CH2P(C2F5) 2) in trifluoroacetic acid is found to be much less than (dfepe)Pt(Me)(O2CCF3), indicating that a concerted S E2 protonolysis mechanism is most likely operative in these electron-poor platinum systems. VT NMR experiments show that benzene coordination to the (dfepe)Pt2+ center in neat fluorosulfonic acid to form (dfepe)Pt(η6-C6H6)2+ at -80°C is competitive with benzene dissociation in this weakly coordinating medium.