Photodriven Elimination of Chlorine From Germanium and Platinum in a Dinuclear PtIIGeIV Complex Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractSearching for a connection between the twoelectron redox behavior of Group14 elements and their possible use as platforms for the photoreductive elimination of chlorine, we have studied the photochemistry of [(o(Ph2P)C6H4)2GeIVCl2]PtIICl2 and [(o(Ph2P)C6H4)2ClGeIII]PtIIICl3, two newly isolated isomeric complexes. These studies show that, in the presence of a chlorine trap, both isomers convert cleanly into the platinum germyl complex [(o(Ph2P)C6H4)2ClGeIII]PtICl with quantum yields of 1.7% and 3.2% for the GeIVPtII and GeIIIPtIII isomers, respectively. Conversion of the GeIVPtII isomer into the platinum germyl complex is a rare example of a lightinduced transitionmetal/maingroupelement bondforming process. Finally, transientabsorptionspectroscopy studies carried out on the GeIIIPtIII isomer point to a ligand areneCl. chargetransfer complex as an intermediate.

published proceedings

  • Angewandte Chemie

author list (cited authors)

  • Karimi, M., Tabei, E. S., Fayad, R., Saber, M. R., Danilov, E. O., Jones, C., Castellano, F. N., & Gabbai, F. P.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Karimi, Mohammadjavad||Tabei, Elham S||Fayad, Remi||Saber, Mohamed R||Danilov, Evgeny O||Jones, Cameron||Castellano, Felix N||Gabbaiï, François P

publication date

  • October 2021

publisher