Platinum complexes, with triaryl

Rhodium and nickel have been by far the most common metals aside from palladium employed in Suzuki-Miyaura carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. Platinum has been used on several occasions, for example Bedford and Hazelwood showed that platinum complexes with n-acidic, ortfto-metalated triaryl phosphite and phosphinite ligands exhibited what they termed unexpectedly good activity in Suzuki biaryl coupling reactions with aryl bromide substrates (Scheme 13.22). Application to aryl chlorides resulted in low conversion to the desired biaryl products. 

Note. The triaryl phosphite complexes, with the possible exception of the platinum derivative, appear to interact with oxygen when prepared or manipulated in the presence of air. This interaction, which leads to large fluctuations in melting behavior, does not cause any other apparent changes. However, in view of these observations, it is recommended that all preparations and subsequent manipulations of the complexes be performed in a nitrogen-filled dry-box. 

The first examples of five-coordinate platinum(II) complexes of the type [Pt(PR3)L]2+ (L = tris(2-(diphenylphosphino)ethyl)phosphine R = Et, OMe, OEt) (104) containing only P-donor atoms have been prepared by the reaction of [PtClL]+ with an appropriate monodentate tertiary phosphine or phosphite ligand.284 Triaryl phosphines and phosphites do not react with the precursor complex, even at elevated temperatures, most probably due to the considerable steric interactions that would occur upon the approach of the P-donor ligand to the platinum(II) center. 

Tris- and tetrakis(triaryl phosphite)platinum(O) complexes have been prepared by reduction of platinum(II) phosphite derivatives with hydrazine.5 The tetrakis complexes have also been prepared by ligand exchange processes, and the synthesis described here is based on this latter procedure. The chemistry of platinum phosphite complexes has not been extensively studied. 

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