Chelating ligands sulfur, selenium, tellurium

The sulfide group forms a large number of complexes where it is in chelation with a different heteroatom. Among the common heteroatoms are N, P and As. These complexes are too numerous to list here, but individual complexes can be found from Table 9 or from refs. 1224 and 1667. It is also possible to synthesize compounds which will form bi-, tri- and tetra-dentate complexes to platinum(II), where sulfur, selenium and tellurium.are the only atoms which coordinate to the metal. A review of complexes formed from ligands of the type RS(CH2) SR has been recently published.1734 This article outlines the synthesis, reactions and spectroscopy of these complexes, and allows the complexes of platinum to be placed in context with those of other transition metals. 

This section of the coverage of palladium(II) coordination chemistry will concentrate on complexes of the more common, usually unidentate ligands containing sulfur, selenium or tellurium donor atoms coverage of the vast number of chelate complexes of bi- or multi-dentate ligands will be limited but the reader will find references to most classes of palladium(II) chelate complexes and these will provide an entry into the literature. 

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