Several tricyclic phenoxasilin and phenazasiline heterocycles were synthesized from the correspon
ding2,2'-dilithio-diphenyl ether or diphenyl amine precursor and silicon tetrachloride (or trichlorosilane)followed by reduction with lithium aluminum hydride [H
2SiAr
2: Ar
2 = C
12H
8O (
1); Ar
2 = C
14H
12O (
2);Ar
2 = C
13H
11N (
3); Ar
2 = C
15H
15N (
4); Ar
2 = C
13H
9Br
2N (
5)]. The reactivity of hydrosilanes
1-
5 with(Ph
3P)
2Pt(
2-C
2H
4) (
6) was investigated. At room temperature, mononuclear complexes, (Ph
3P)
2Pt(H)(SiAr
2H) and (Ph
3P)
2Pt(SiAr
2H)
2, were generally observed by NMR spectroscopy but were too reactiveor unstable to isolate. Dinuclear and in some cases trinuclear Pt-Si-containing complexes were observedas the major products from the reactions. Symmetrical dinuclear complexes, [(Ph
3P)Pt(
-
2-H-SiAr
2)]
2(
8 and
22, respectively), were produced from the reaction of
1 or
3 with
6. In contrast, reaction of silane
2 with
6 produced a trinuclear complex, [(Ph
3P)Pt(
-SiAr
2)]
3 (
16), as the major product. However, reactionof
4 or
5 with complex
6 produced an unsymmetrical dinuclear complex, [(Ph
3P)
2Pt(H)(
-SiAr
2)(
-
2-H-SiAr
2)Pt(PPh
3)] (
26 and
30, respectively), as the major component. The molecular structures of asymmetrical (
22) and unsymmetrical dinuclear (
30) complex as well as a trinuclear (
16) complex weredetermined by X-ray crystallography.