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Some New Stereochemical Arrangements of Divalent Palladium and Platinum

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THE usual stereochemistry of divalent palladium and platinum is that of a square-planar arrangement, associated with (n − 1)dnsnp2 bonding. A number of structures of this type have been reported1. The stereochemistry of square complexes has been discussed in considerable detail by Mellor2. With the exception of a few compounds such as the pyrro-methene3 and triaminotrimethylamine4 complexes, where the bonds must be forced out of a plane, the four bonds to a bivalent platinum atom are invariably planar.

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  1. School of Applied Chemistry, N.S.W. University of Technology, Sydney

    C. M. HARRIS, R. S. NYHOLM & N. C. STEPHENSON

  2. William Ramsay and Ralph Forster Laboratories, University College, London, W.C.1

    C. M. HARRIS, R. S. NYHOLM & N. C. STEPHENSON

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HARRIS, C., NYHOLM, R. & STEPHENSON, N. Some New Stereochemical Arrangements of Divalent Palladium and Platinum. Nature 177, 1127–1128 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1771127b0

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