A novel structural rearrangement reaction of dialkylated derivatives of [Pt2(μ-S)2(PPh3)4] involving Pt-C bond formation.

Reaction of [Pt(2)(μ-S)(2)(PPh(3))(4)] with the dialkylating agents ClCH(2)C(O)CH(2)Cl or ClCH(2)C(=NNHC(O)NH(2))CH(2)Cl gives the dicationic di-μ-thiolate complexes [Pt(2){μ-SCH(2)C(O)CH(2)S)(PPh(3))(4)](2+) or [Pt(2){μ-SCH(2)C(=NNHC(O)NH(2))CH(2)S}(PPh(3))(4)](2+), isolated as BPh(4)(-) salts and characterised by ESI mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray crystallography. Treatment of the complex [Pt(2){μ-SCH(2)C(O)CH(2)S)(PPh(3))(4)](2+), which contains a [6.6.

Syntheses and ligand interconversions of copper(II) derivatives of the metalloligand [Pt2(mu-S)2(PPh3)4].

The reactivity of the metalloligand [Pt2(micro-S)2(PPh3)4] towards a variety of copper(II)-ligand systems has been studied. Reaction of [Pt2(mu-S)2(PPh3)4] with copper(II) halide complexes [CuCl2L](L = 2,2'-bipyridine and 1,10-phenanthroline) gave trinuclear dicationic products [Pt2(mu-S)2(PPh3)4CuL]2+, and the 8-hydroxyquinolinate (hq) complex [Cu(hq)2] gave [Pt2(mu-S)2(PPh3)4Cu(hq)]+, isolated as their BPh4- or PF6- salts. Related cationic complexes with other ancillary amine ligands (1,2-diaminoethane, 1,2-diaminopropane, 1,2-diaminocyclohexane) were obtained by reactions of [Pt2(mu-S)2(PPh3)4] with CuCl2 and the amine.