Platinum complexes water cleavage

The kinetics of solvolysis of complexes cis- and // a 5-[Pt(N02)2L2] (L=ammonia, pyridine, or triethylphosphine) in acetic acid-sulphuric acid mixtures have been compared with those in aqueous sulphuric acid. The mechanism is loss of a nitro-sonium ion from the protonated complex. Whether this protonation takes place at the nitrito-ligand or at the metal is not known, but definitive evidence favouring the latter could not be obtained. Platinum-carbon bond cleavage in cw-[Pt(C6H4Y)2-(PEt3)2], studied in methanol and methanol-water mixtures, takes place by electrophilic attack by a proton,... 

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