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Wade L Davis1, Reinout Meijboom
1Research Center for Synthesis and Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, University of Johannesburg (APK Campus), PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa.
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [PtCl(2)(C(19)H(17)P)(2)](2)·3CH(2)Cl(2), contains two complex mol-ecules and three dichloro-methane solvent mol-ecules, two of which are disordered over various positions. The Pt(II) complexes reveal a slightly distorted square-planar geometry with average Pt-P and Pt-Cl bond lengthss of 2.252 (8) and 2.363 (8) Å, respectively, and average P-Pt-P and Cl-Pt-Cl angles of 99.17 (8) and 87.1 (7)°, respectively.
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