Addition of the silane (HSiMe
2)C
2B
10H
10(PR
2) (R = Me (
2a), OEt (
2b)) to (PPh
3)
2Pt(CH
2CH
2) (
3) affords the
trans-bis(chelates) Pt(Cab
P,Si)
2 (
4a,
b; Cab
P,Si =
2-[(SiMe
2)(PR
2)C
2B
10H
10-
P,Si]) in high yield; the same product was also formed from Pt(cod)
2 (
9), as confirmed byNMR spectroscopy (
1H,
31P). Using Pd
2(dba)
3 (
6), the analogue
trans-bis(chelate) Pd(Cab
P,Si)
2(
7a) was obtained as a mixture of trans and cis isomers in which the former predo
minates,as established by NMR spectroscopy (
1H,
31P). Thus, a series of kinetically stabilized
trans-bis(chelate) metal complexes,
trans-(Cab
P,Si)
2M (M = Pt (
4a,
b), Pd (
7a)), bearing bulky
o-carboranylphosphine tethers, were synthesized from the reaction of phosphinosilanes (
2)
with d
10 metal complexes. In the presence of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD), thetrans isomer
4a,
b thermally rearranges to the thermodynamically favored cis isomer
cis-(Cab
P,Si)
2Pt (
5a,
b). In addition, the oxidative addition of the Si-H bond to the stericallybulky diphenylphosphino silane (HSiMe
2)C
2B
10H
10(PPh
2) (
2c) by
3 can be controlled toproduce the mono(chelate) species (Cab
P,Si)Pt(H)(PPh
3) (
10a). The related mono(chelate)product (Cab
P,Si)Pt(H)(Cab
P) (
10b; Cab
P = (PPh
2)C
2B
10H
11) results from the oxidative additionof
2c by
3, in which one PPh
3 ligand is displaced by Cab
P. The structures of compounds
4a,
5a,
c,
8c, and
10a,
b were deter
mined using single-crystal X-ray crystallography.