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Published on: June 20, 2014
Multiply "trapped" 3[trans-Pt(PR3)2(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CC6H4X)2]* conformers in rigid media
Gabriel Marineau-Plante1, Frank Juvenal, Adam Langlois
1Departement de chimie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada. Pierre.Harvey@Usherbrooke.ca.
Abstract:
The complexes (R = Me, Et, Bu; X = H, SMe) exhibit well-defined multi-exponential emissions (2-4 components) in the solid state at 77 and 298 K and in 2MeTHF glasses at 77 K due to multiple frozen conformers exhibiting variable dihedral angles formed by the PtP2C2 and C6H4 planes. The demonstration was made using X-ray crystallography at various temperatures where different sites are present in the samples, and using geometry optimization (DFT computations) where various stable conformers are noted.
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