Platinum complexes electron-transfer reactions

Pti-x ZXjc supported on carbon or alumina, Kt/Kb is proportional to x, suggesting electron transfer from platinum to zirconium, as predicted by the Engel-Brewer theory, and (2) chemisorption of sulfur on platinum has been shown to decrease electron density of the surface, while carbon has the opposite effect. The ratio Kt/Kb was very large for ruthenium, about 10 for rhodium and about unity for palladium, which may help to explain their different activities in these and other reactions. An extensive kinetic study of the hydrogenation of mixtures of benzene and toluene on NiA zeolite has however revealed a situation of some complexity, and it is not certain that the original simple concept is totally valid. 

The excited states of dinuclear platinum, rhodium, and iridium complexes with a variety of bridging ligands exhibit unusually diverse reactivity. These types of compound in their lowest triplet state engage in oxidative and reductive electron transfer reactions, and exciplex formation [56], They can also engage in atom transfer reactions i.e. they can abstract hydrogen atoms from a wide range of substrates as well as halogen atoms from alkyl and aryl halides. 

In terms of the development of an understanding of the reactivity patterns of inorganic complexes, the two metals which have been pivotal are platinum and cobalt. This importance is to a large part a consequence of each metal having available one or more oxidation states which are kinetically inert. Platinum is a particularly useful element of this pair because it has two kinetically inert sets of complexes (divalent and tetravalent) in addition to the complexes of platinum(O), which is a kinetically labile center. The complexes of divalent and tetravalent platinum show significant differences. Divalent platinum forms four-coordinate planar complexes which have a coordinately unsaturated 16-electron d8 platinum center, whereas tetravalent platinum is an 18-electron d6 center which is coordinately saturated in its usual hexacoordination. In terms of mechanistic interpretation one must therefore consider both associative and dissociative substitution pathways, in addition to mechanisms involving electron transfer or inner-sphere atom transfer redox processes. A number of books and articles have been written about replacement reactions in platinum complexes, and a number of these are summarized in Table 13. 

According to reaction (559) these reactions can occur by an oxidation reaction of platinum(II). With one-electron oxidants, the intermediate formation of platinum(III) complexes occurs. The best early example of this type of reaction is in the oxidation of PtCi - and Pt(en)2+ by IrIVCl - in the presence of free chloride ion. The presence of platinum(III) intermediates has been inferred from the rate law.2036 For the oxidation of platinum(II) by gold(III) the kinetic data are consistent with a mechanism requiring a complementary two-electron transfer,2037 with a rate independent of chloride ion. For the substituted pyridine derivatives PtCkLj (L = substituted pyridine) however, the third-order rate law is found with first-order dependencies on PtCl I, Aum and Cl-.2038 Comparisons have been made with the amine complexes PtC L (L = NH2R).2039... 

Redox substitution reactions can be photoinitiated. Taube first proposed that the photo-catalyzed substitution of PtCll- occurs by an electron-transfer process (equation 560) to give a kinetically labile platinum(III) intermediate.2040 Further work on this system has shown that the exchange occurs with quantum yields up to 1000,2041-2043 and the intermediate has beer assigned a lifetime in the fis range.2044 Recently the binuclear platinum(III) complexes Pt2(P2OsH2)4Xr (X = Cl, Br, I) have been found to show similar behavior and both photoreduction and complementary redox reactions are again proposed to explain the substitution behavior.1500... 

Spontaneously adsorbed monolayers of the dimeric complex (Figure 5.11) [(pOp) Os(bpy)2 (4-tet) Os(bpy)2 Cl]3+, where pOp is 4,4 -bipyridyl, bpy is 2,2/-bipyridyl and 4-tet is 3,6-bis(4-pyridyl)-l,2,4,5-tetrazine, have been assembled on platinum microelectrodes in an attempt to address these issues [33]. Significantly, as illustrated in Figure 5.11, the voltammetric response associated with the Osn/m reaction is unusually ideal for both metal centers. Studies using mononuclear model compounds reveal that the redox responses centered at approximately 0.620 and 0.300 V correspond to the inner [(pOp) Os(bpy)2 (4-tet)]2+ and outer [(4-tet) Os(bpy)2 Cl]+ moieties, respectively. The observation of two well-defined voltammetric waves indicates that electron transfer can occur across the [(pOp) Os(bpy)2 (4-tet)]2+ bridge to the outer [Os(bpy)2 Cl]+ moiety, i.e. charge trapping does not occur. 

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