Palladium complexes square planar

Square planar complexes of palladium(II) and platinum(II) readily undergo ligand substitution reactions. Those of palladium have been studied less but appear to behave similarly to platinum complexes, though around five orders of magnitude faster (ascribable to the relative weakness of the bonds to palladium). 

Like palladium(II) and platinum(II), gold(III) has the d8 electronic configuration and is, therefore, expected to form square planar complexes. The d-orbital sequence for complexes like AuC14 is dx2 yi dxy > dvz, dxz > dzi in practice in a complex, most of these will have some ligand character. 

In 2005, Carretero et al. reported a second example of chiral catalysts based on S/P-coordination employed in the catalysis of the enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction, namely palladium complexes of chiral planar l-phosphino-2-sulfenylferrocenes (Fesulphos). This new family of chiral ligands afforded, in the presence of PdCl2, high enantioselectivities of up to 95% ee, in the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene with A-acryloyl-l,3-oxazolidin-2-one (Scheme 5.17). The S/P-bidentate character of the Fesulphos ligands has been proved by X-ray diffraction analysis of several metal complexes. When the reaction was performed in the presence of the corresponding copper-chelates, a lower and opposite enantioselectivity was obtained. This difference of results was explained by the geometry of the palladium (square-planar) and copper (tetrahedral) complexes. 

Insertion of alkenes. Alkene insertions have also been widely studied and many insertion products have been isolated [31], Alkene insertions follow a migratory mechanism in the palladium and platinum square planar complexes with diphosphine ligands [18],... 

Square-planar complexes of platinum(II) and palladium(II) have been known for a long time the comparatively simple unit cells of compounds such as K2PdCl4, K2PtCl4, and Pd(NH3)4Cl2H20 led to early elucidation of the structures (257) and they all contain square-planar ions. The simple halides PdCl2 and Pt,Cl2 (71) consist of chains in which the metal is bonded from the corners of a square. Nickel chloride, on the other hand, has a layer lattice in which the nickel is octahedrally coordinated, and in the halide complexes the coordination is tetrahedral, as described in Section IV,B. 

When the apparently penta-coordinated diarsine complexes just described are dissolved in solvents more polar than nitrobenzene, they tend to dissociate into halide ions and bivalent cations, thus becoming 2 1 electrolytes (119). The effect is most marked with the platinum compounds. It has been shown that solvation effects might be less with platinum than with palladium, and so, other things in the equilibria being equal, it can also be concluded that the bonding of further ligands by a square-planar complex is much weaker with platinum than with palladium. Square-planar nickel complexes are of course the most ready to take up further ligands. 

In general, penta-coordinated complexes are rather rare. So far as nickel, palladium, and platinum are concerned, it seems that such complexes may be formed as intermediates when square-planar complexes accept further ligands in their tendency to become hexa-coordinated. The... 

Because substitution chemistry at square-planar palladium is dominated by associative processes [48], coordination of the alkene in 22.2 would undoubtedly initially generate penta-coordinate intermediate 22.6. Complex 22.6 could then either evolve to square-planar complex 22.5 by a series of pseudorotations and eventual expulsion of the halide ligand or undergo... 

The ligands to be eliminated must be cis to one another for reductive elimination to occur. This is because the process is concerted. Two examples from palladium chemistry make this point clear. Warming in DMSO causes ethane production from the first palladium complex because the two methyl groups are cis in the square planar complex. The more elaborate second bisphosphine forces the two methyl groups to be trans and reductive elimination does not occur under the same conditions. Reductive elimination is one of the most important methods for the removal of a transition... 

Burmeister and colleagues have described the related pseudohalogen derivatives MfterpyjXj (X = SCN or SeCN) (90-92). The platinum compound exhibits the two thiocyanate stretching frequencies expected for a square-planar complex, and is formulated [Pt(terpy)(NCS)][NCS], However, the palladium complexes are less easily formulated, exhibiting absorptions due to coordinated ECN (E = S or Se) only. These observations were interpreted in terms of a square-planar structure, with a bidentate terpy ligand in view of the known ability for palladium and platinum diimine complexes to form five-coordinate species, this formulation must also be considered. In the absence of definitive structural evidence, the formulation as five-coordinate species must be regarded as speculative. 

Formation of the palladium(II) complexes can be achieved using standard protocols and resulting in square planar complexes with mer (pincer) chelate structure. The six-membered, very flexible metallacycles featuring alkyl linker chains display chiral puckering that would make the use of chiral analogues difficult in asymmetric catalytic applications. 

Having seen that structural predictions are very difficult, we will now turn to the choice of transition metal. We have already seen the dependence of the coordination mode in square planar complexes on various factors and noticed the preference for polymeric chains with the silver(I) complexes owing to the linearly coordinated silver centre. Chiu et al. [325] reported on a series of arylmethylene and methyl wingtipped bis-carbene complexes of silver(I) (polymeric bridging) and palladium(II) (monomeric chelating). Carbene transfer to palladium was achieved in DMSO since solubility in CHjCfj was very poor. 

Trialkyl phosphines and phosphites generally form with palladium (II) chloride well-defined square planar complexes of the type [PdCl2L2], which exist as either cis or trans isomers. 

FIGURE 9-7 Chiral Isomers of Square-Planar Complexes (meso-stilbenediamine)(iSo-butylenedi-amine)platinum(ll) and palladium(ll). (From W. H. Mills and T. H. H. Quibell, J. Chem. Soc.,... 

Under certain conditions, ethylenediamine itself may form square planar complexes with nickel(II). Sone and Kato (89) reported that yellow Ni(en)2" is formed when [Ni(en)2(H20)2]" is heated in alcohol. The bis-ethylenediaminenickel(II) complex, Ni(en)2(AgIBr)2, and the corresponding platinum(II) and palladium(II) derivatives are isomorphous, indicating square planar nickel in this complex (58), The anions may be changed to Cul2 , Is", Pbls , and B.glr without destroying the planarity of nickel. Cobalt (II) and copper(II) also form square planar complexes of this type. These square planar species appear to be stable only in the solid state for they decompose when dissolved in water (58). 

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