Platinum geometry

There is significant metal-metal bonding in the platinum compound, whose geometry involves a square of platinum atoms another important difference is that the coordination geometry is square planar in palladium acetate but octahedral in the platinum analogue. Different oligomers exist in solution, broken down by adduct formation. Palladium(II) acetate may be obtained as brown crystals from the following reaction [65] ... 

X 16.101 cis-Platin is an anticancer drug with a structure jQ that can be viewed on the Web site, (a) What is the formula and systematic name for the compound cis-jf Platin (b) Draw any isomers that are possible for this compound. Label any isomers that are optically active, (c) What is the coordination geometry of the platinum atom ... 

The Pd lT) and Pt ll) complexes yilB dtc) HI, 46) are diamagnetic and have a square planar geometry 112,113) like the nickel analogues. In CH2CI2 they can be oxidised irreversibly on a rotating platinum electrode, the Pd compound at a higher potential than the Pt compound (1.21 and 0.92 V vs s.c.e., respectively) 150). 

The hydrogen was introduced into the system through a nickel membrane. The atoms were obtained by platinum pyrolysis filament having a required temperature to provide necessary concentration of H-atoms. The values of hydrogen pressures for a given cell geometry were chosen... 

A review17 with 25 references of five-coordination in palladium(II) and platinum(II) chemistry is presented. The complexes have invariably a trigonal bipyramidal geometry with the bidentate ligand and the alkene in the equatorial plane. 

The [Pt(Se4)2]2 complex (133) has been prepared by the reduction of the platinum(IV) species [Pt(Se4)3]2 with excess borohydride.328 The X-ray structure of the complex shows that each of the five-membered rings adopts a half-chair conformation, with the platinum coordination sphere exhibiting slight distortion from a square-planar geometry.329... 

Thus we shall be concerned with properties that furnish information about the nature of the ligands, the oxidation state of the metal, and the geometry of the field of ligands. Techniques such as radio-isotope tracer studies, neutron-activation analysis, and electron microscopy are powerful methods for locating a metal within constituents of the cell and are particularly suited to heavy-metal rather than organic drugs but since they do not provide information about the chemical environment of the metal they will not concern us here. After each section below we shall give an example, not necessarily from platinum chemistry, where the method has been used with success in biochemistry. 

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