4) with good thermal stability respectively. To the best of our knowledge, only ten silyl palladium complexes prepared from these two chelating hydrosilane ligands are presented in the Cambridge Structural Database. The structures of complexes 3 and 4 are unambiguously determined by single crystal X-ray analysis and multinuclear NMR spectroscopic studies.

The reaction of (SiH3)(SiMeBu t2) with [Pt(PEt3)4] and dcpe gave [Pt{(SiH2)(SiMeBu t2)}2(dcpe)] (dcpe=Cy2PCH2CH2PCy2), which has been structurally characterised by single-crystal X-ray analysis.