RESUMEN
Platinum acetate blue (PAB) of the empirical formula Pt(OOCMe)2.5±0.25, a byproduct in the synthesis of crystalline platinum(II) acetate Pt4(OOCMe)8, is an X-ray amorphous substance containing platinum in the oxidation state between (II) and (III). Typical PAB samples were studied with X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis-thermogravimetric, extended X-ray absorption fine structure, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, magnetochemistry, and combined quantum chemical density functional theory-molecular mechanics modeling to reveal the main structural features of the PAB molecular building blocks. The applicability of PAB to the synthesis of platinum complexes was demonstrated by the preparation of the new homo- and heteronuclear complexes Pt(II)(dipy)(OOCMe)2 (1), Pt(II)(µ-OOCMe)4Co(II)(OH2) (2), and Pt(III)2(OOCMe)4(O3SPhMe)2 (3) with the use of PAB as starting material.
RESUMEN
Transformations of anionic Cu(II) chlorocomplexes have been studied under conditions of catalytic exchange reactions between carbon tetrachloride and n-alkanes. It was shown that chlorocuprates are just precursors and are easily reduced to the genuine catalysts, that is, to the respective Cu(I) complexes. Both the composition and the geometric structure of the precursor (CuCl(4)(2-)) and, probably, the active site (CuCl(3)(2-)) have been investigated by several techniques (UV-vis spectroscopy, electron spin resonance (ESR), extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES), and static magnetic measurements). The dependence of the metathesis velocity on the [Cl-]/[Cu] ratio was found to exhibit a maximum most likely corresponding to the highest content of trichlorocuprite CuCl(3)(2-).