Crystal Structure of Bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II) Isopropyldithiophosphate

Abstract

The chemistry of palladium(II) and platinum(II) with dithio ligands such as xanthate, dithiocarbamate and dithiophosphates is well developed. However, the chemistry of these metals in +1 oxidation state with these ligands has not received much attention. Thus in order to obtain palladium(I) complexes, we explored the redox reaction involving palladium(0) and palladium(II) complexes. In all these reactions, however, only palladium(II) complexes were found. The crystal structure of the title compound, (Fig. 1) 1 A view of the molecule together with atomic numbering scheme is shown in Fig. 2. The structure consists of discrete monomeric molecules with square planar con-497 ANALYTICAL SCIENCES MAY 1999, VOL. 15 1999