Diimine ligands covalent hydration

Rate and equilibrium constant data, including substituent and isotope effects, for the reaction of [Pt(bpy)2]2+ with hydroxide, are all consistent with, and interpreted in terms of, reversible addition of the hydroxide to the coordinated 2,2 -bipyridyl (397). Equilibrium constants for addition of hydroxide to a series of platinum(II)-diimine cations [Pt(diimine)2]2+, the diimines being 2,2 -bipyridyl, 2,2 -bipyrazine, 3,3 -bipyridazine, and 2,2 -bipyrimidine, suggest that hydroxide adds at the 6 position of the coordinated ligand (398). Support for this covalent hydration mechanism for hydroxide attack at coordinated diimines comes from crystal structure determinations of binuclear mixed valence copper(I)/copper(II) complexes of 2-hydroxylated 1,10-phenanthroline and 2,2 -bipyridyl (399). 

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