We have discovered the first polythioplatinate(II), [PtII
3S2(SO3)6]10– (1), which was synthesized in aqueous
basic medium
(pH 11) by hydrothermal heating at 150 °C. Polyanion 1 comprises a discrete, triangular assembly of three Pt2+ ions linked by two μ3-sulfido ligands, and their
square-planar coordination geometry is completed by two terminal S-bound
sulfito ligands. Polyanion 1 was isolated as a hydrated
sodium salt, Na10[PtII
3(μ3-S)2(SO3)6]·22H2O (Na-1), which was characterized in the solid
state by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared
spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectra,
and elemental analysis, in solution by 195Pt NMR and atomic
absorption spectroscopy, and in the gas phase by electrospray ionization
mass spectrometry. Density functional theory calculations were performed,
and the 195Pt NMR chemical shifts of 1 were
computed theoretically and shown to match well with the experimental
data. Furthermore, the discrete title polyanion 1 was
immobilized on mesoporous SBA-15 support and used as a precatalyst
for the hydrogenation of o-xylene.