“…[18][19][20][21] It was also found that trimethylplatinum(IV) complexes of bipyridine ligands exhibit curious dynamic behavior in solution. 22 In this regard, it is somewhat surprising that there exists very few structural reports of trimethylplatinum(IV) complexes of simple 2,2 0 -bipyridine ligand [22][23][24][25][26] and to the best of our knowledge, no structural characterization of simple 4,4 0disubstituted 2,2 0 -bipyridine ligands of trimethylplatinum(IV) iodide complexes has yet been reported. Herein, in the present paper, we report the synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of a series of mononuclear trimethylplatinum(IV) complexes of 2,2 0 -bipyridine ligands, [PtMe 3 (L-L)I] where L-L ¼ 2,2 0 -bipyridine (bipy), 4,4 0 -dimethyl-2,2 0 -bipyridine (4-Mebipy), 4,4 0 -dimethoxy-2,2 0 -bipyridine (4-MeObipy), 4,4 0 -bis(dimethylamino)-2,2 0 -bipyridine (4-Me 2 Nbipy).…”