Asynthetic routeto the platinum(iv) complexes [ (PtXMe,),(SCH,SCH,SCHMe)] (X = CI, Br or I) has been established. Solution NMR and other evidence favour the ligand adopting a boat conformation and bridging the t w o platinum(tv) centres across an -SCH,S-portion of the ring, with the ring methyl group in an equatorial environment. Only very weak evidence was obtained for the existence of the -SCHMeSbridged ligand complex despite the occurrence of a fluxional process involving 60" pivots of the ligand about individual S-Pt bonds which must proceed via the -SCHMeS-bridged species. Activation energies and a proposed mechanism for the process are presented. Some rare examples of 2J(Pt'VPt'V) scalar couplings are reported.