Platinum silyl complexes optical activity

The chemistry of silicon, germanium, and tin transition metal compounds has been the subject of several reviews (12, 180). Optically active silyl ligands have been introduced in a transition metal complex by reaction of chiral functional organosilanes. However chiral silyl ligands containing complexes are limited to a few metal centers we shall discuss in turn iron, cobalt, platinum, and manganese complexes. 

Addition of methyldichlorosilane to a series of alkyl phenyl ketones catalyzed by these chiral phosphine-platinum(II) complexes gives partially optically active silyl ethers of 1-phenylalkanols, equation (14). 

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