Platinum complexes trans effects

A seminal paper [155] examined platinum-phosphorus NMR coupling constants in a series of cis- and trans-platinum(II and IV) complexes. The trans-influence had hitherto been explained in terms of d7r-p7r bonding, in other words, such a mechanism dominated with trans-effect... 

DNA polymerases, 5, 1007 Trans effect, 1,16, 26, 315 metal complexes, 2, 705, palladium(II) amine complexes, 5, 1115 platinum complexes, 5, 353, 493 six-coordinate compounds. 1, 49 T ransestcrification metal alkoxide synthesis, 2, 340 Transferases zinc, S, 1002... 

The DNA binding of trans-platinum complexes is thus quite rich and varied. The cellular effects of such adduct formation also appear to be significantly different from those of cisplatin. 

Qu, Y. Scarsdale, N. J. Tran, M. C. Farrell, N. Cooperative effects in long-range 1,4 DNA-DNA interstrand crosslinks formed by polynuclear platinum complexes an unexpected syn-orientation of adenine bases outside the binding sites. J Biol Inorg Chem 2003, 8, 19-28. 

Isomerization involving a square planar complex is also known. Because of the trans effect, it is easier to synthesize the trans isomer of many complexes than it is to prepare the cis complex. The following reactions lead to the formation of an unusual platinum complex ... 

The kinetics and mechanism of ligand substitution reactions of square-planar platinum(II) dimethyl sulfoxide complexes have been exhaustively studied (173), and these workers conclude that the cis and trans influences and the trans effects of Me2SO and ethylene are similar in magnitude whereas the cis effect of Me2SO is about 100 times as large as that of ethylene. The results for reaction (5), where the stability constants, Kt, are reported to be 1.5 x 108 (L = S-Me2SO) and 4.5 x 108 (L = ethylene) corroborate this analogy (213). 

The aquation rate is mainly determined by the trans effect of the ligand trans to Cl. The aquation rate constants of some platinum complexes are listed in Table I. For example, the rate of hydrolysis of CP trans to c-C6HnNH2 in complex 14, a metabolite of the oral drug 11 (42), is about twice as fast as trans to NH3 (43). 

An alkene complexed to platinum(II) is only slightly modified on coordination, but complexation to platinum(O) causes major changes. Platinum(O) alkene complexes show both weakening and lengthening of the carbon-carbon bond, as well as distortion of the plane of the double bond away from the platinum. In platinum(ll) alkene complexes the double bond lies approximately perpendicular to the square plane of platinum(II), but in platinum(O) complexes there is only a small dihedral angle between the platinum and alkenic planes. For platinum(II) the energy barrier to free rotation of the alkene about the platinum(D)-alkene bond is only about 40-65 kJ mol-1, whereas no rotation is observed with platinum(O) alkene complexes. Alkenes bonded to platinum(ll) exert a large trans effect but only have a small trans influence. 

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