Palladium complexes arsine

The pale yellow [Ni(PEt3)4] is also tetrahedral but with some distortion. In sharp contrast to nickel, palladium forms no simple carbonyl, Pt(CO)4 is prepared only by matrix isolation at very low temperatures and reports of K4[M(CN)4] (M = Pd, Pt) may well refer to hydrido complexes in any event they are very unstable. The chemistry of these two metals in the zero oxidation state is in fact essentially that of their phosphine and arsine complexes and was initiated by L. Malatesta and his school in the 1950s. Compounds of the type [M(PR3)4], of which [Pt(PPh3)4] has been most thoroughly studied, are in general yellow, air-stable solids or liquids obtained by reducing complexes in H2O or H20/EtOH solutions with hydrazine or sodium borohydride. They are tetrahedral molecules whose most important property is their readiness to dissociate in solution to form... 

Chelate complexes could only be prepared in the case of platinum(II) as the metal ion, while the group V atom alone acted as a donor toward palladium(II) and mercury(II). The coordinated olefin in the chelate complexes was found to be readily displaced by monodentate ligands such as tertiary arsines, -toluidine and the thiocyanate ion. It was suggested by these workers that chelation would take place more readily if the olefinic phosphine or arsine were subject to greater steric restrictions than was the pentenyl ligand. 

The corresponding palladium compound (157) must be formulated as [Pd(TA)Br]+Br. The cation is essentially square-planar, but the bromine atom is displaced 10° out of the arsenic-palladium plane. Such a distortion is very unusual for palladium, and may be due to a steric effect of the alkyl chains in the arsine ligand. This might similarly account for the distortion of the nickel complex from a square pyramidal shape. 

In contrast, the arsine analogues AsBu 2(o-tolyl) and AsBu (o-tolyl)2 yield the complexes fra/tf-[PdCl2L2] and these produced only metallic palladium under conditions which induced cydometallation in the case of their platinum analogues.100 The ligand PBu o-QH t) metallates at the a position, but PBu 2(o-C6H4Pri) produced only metallic palladium.35 Bidentate phosphines are generally reluctant to metallate internally. An exception is... 

The Shibasaki cychzation of mc.vo-cyclohexa-1,4-dienes in the presence of a chiral palladium complex and silver carbonate in l-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone is probably the first example of an enantioselective Heck reaction (Scheme 10.34).60 The enantiomeric excess could be slightly improved by replacing the chiral phosphine ligand BINAP with the corresponding less coordinating arsine ligand, as well as replacing silver carbonate with silver phosphate.61,62... 

Interferences Metals or salts of metals such as chromium, cobalt, copper, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, palladium, and silver may interfere with the evolution of arsine. Antimony, which forms stibine, is the only metal likely to produce a positive interference in the color development with the silver diethyldithiocarbamate. Stibine forms a red color with silver diethyldithiocarbamate that has a maximum absorbance at 510 nm, but at 535 to 540 nm, the absorbance of the antimony complex is so diminished that the results of the determination would not be altered significantly. 

Halogen-bridged platinum(II) complexes of the tertiary phosphines, arsines, etc., were then unknown and they had properties well worth studying for comparison with those of their palladium analogs. Also, they could be oxidized to platinum(IV)-bridged species, and these showed marked instability compared with their platinum(II) analogs. This led me to speculate that the electrons in the [Pg.7]

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