2006 journal article

Protonolysis of Cationic Pt−C Bonds with Mild Acids:  Can Ligand Torsional Effects Speed Associative Processes?

Organometallics, 25(13), 3114–3117.

By: J. Feducia*, A. Campbell*, J. Anthis* & M. Gagné*

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Tridentate phosphine pincer ligands facilitate the protonolysis of cationic Pt−CH3 compounds (to Pt dications and CH4) with the ammonium acid Ph2NH2·BF4. Large rate enhancements over nonpincer analogues (>50 000) are observed. A mechanism is proposed wherein ring strain present in the planar ground-state arrangement of three phosphine ligands is released in putative five-coordinate intermediates and transition states.