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Amide Coupling Reaction for the Synthesis of Bispyridine-based Ligands and Their Complexation to Platinum as Dinuclear Anticancer Agents
Published on: May 28, 2014
[N,N-Bis(diphenyl-phosphino)propyl-amine-κP,P']dichloridoplatinum(II)
Nicoline Cloete1, Hendrik G Visser, Andreas Roodt
1Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa.
Abstract:
The Pt(II) atom in the title compound, [PtCl(2)(C(27)H(27)NP(2))], has a highly distorted square-planar geometry, as evidenced by the P-Pt-P bite angle [72.4 (1)°]. The strain in the complex is further illustrated by the distorted tetra-hedral angles of the P atoms, which range between 93.5 (1) and 122.2 (1)°. It is of inter-est to note that the N atom has to adopt an almost planar geometry with the two P atoms and the C atom attached to it [it is displaced by 0.093 (2) Å from the CP(2) plane] in order to accommodate the steric bulk of the phenyl groups and the alkyl group of the ligand coordinated to the Pt(II) centre. The mol-ecules pack in horizontal rows across the bc plane. C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds stabilize the crystal packing.
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