A highly constrained cis -dihydride platinum complex trapped by cooperative gold/platinum dihydrogen activation.
Nereida HidalgoFelipe de la Cruz-MartínezM Trinidad MartínM Carmen NicasioJesús CamposPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2022)
A series of Au(I)/Pt(0) combinations that behave as bimetallic frustrated Lewis pairs activates dihydrogen in a cooperative manner. The steric bulk of the terphenyl phosphines that stabilize both fragments allows for the isolation of a rather unique and highly distorted cis -type dihydride platinum(II) structure.