文摘
The use of (NHC)AgX salts as transmetallating agentsfor platinum can be tuned to introduce either one or two NHCligands per platinum in high yield. Complexes with a singleNHC ligand are prepared with an additional DMSO ligand,which can conveniently be replaced by other ligands such asphosphines to give mixed cis NHC/phosphine complexes.Variable-temperature NMR and DFT have been used to probethe nature of the restricted rotation of the NHC ligand aboutthe square planar platinum center: experimentally, the barrierhas been established as at least 85 kJ mol-1, and thecomputational value has been determined to be 92 kJ mol-1.