Triangular triplatinum(0) complexes with bridging diarylsilylene ligands, [{Pt(PMe 3 )} 3 (μ-SiAr 2 ) 3 ] (1: Ar = Ph, 2: Ar = C 6 H 4 F-4), reacted with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to afford new Pt 3 complexes. The equimolar reaction of complex 1 produced a linear triplatinum complex with μ 2 -diphenylsilylene and μ 3 -phenyl(vinylene)silylene ligands. The latter ligand was formed via migration of a Ph group of the bis(diphenylsilyl)ethylene ligand. The reaction of 2 with the alkyne in a 1:3 molar ratio yielded the product having a disilaplatinacyclic moiety and a Pt center with the donorstabilized silylene ligand, and they were separated by the coordinated alkyne molecule. A common intermediate having a disilaplatinacyclopentene group was converted into the respective triplatinum complexes, depending on the substituents of the silylene ligand.
■ INTRODUCTIONMultinuclear complexes of low-valent late transition metals are mostly stabilized by bridging inert and electron-withdrawing ligands, such as μ-CO and μ-CNR. 1 The bridging silylene ligands (μ-SiR 2 ), having electron-donating nature, bind two transition metals and form stable dinuclear complexes. 2 The multinuclear late transition metal complexes with the bridging Si ligands were uncommon until recently. 3 Our group 4 and Braddock-Wilking's group 5 reported triangular triplatinum(0) complexes with bridging silylene ligands, formulated as [{Pt(PR′ 3 )} 3 (μ-SiR 2 ) 3 ]. These complexes are stable up to 100°C despite mismatched coordination of the d 10 transition metal centers to the electrondonating ligands. An analogous complex with bridging germylene ligands contains a stable triangular Pt 3 framework, which is kept after protonation and insertion of alkyne into a Pt−Ge bond. 6 A triplatinum complex with bridging carbonyl ligand, [{Pt(PR 3 )} 3 (μ-CO) 3 ], reacts with alkyne to afford a diplatinum−alkyne complex, accompanied by elimination of the Pt(PR 3 )(CO) fragment. 7 Recently, tetranuclear Pd complexes, with more flexibility than the cyclic Pt 3 complexes, were reported to undergo their skeletal rearrangement. Linear tetrapalladium complexes in a sandwich framework underwent reversible change in alignment of the Pd metals upon chemical oxidation and reduction. 8 We found structural change of the planar Pd 4 Ge 3 complex [Pd{Pd(dmpe)} 3 (μ-GePh 2 ) 3 ] (dmpe = 1,2-bis-(dimethylphosphino)ethane) caused by addition of thiol, giving a linear hexapalladium complex, although the reaction occurred irreversibly. 9 Thus, the cyclic triplatinum(0) complexes tend not to change the Pt 3 core in most reactions reported so far. In this paper, we report rearrangement reactions of the silylene-bridged triplatinum(0) complexes induced by insertion of alkyne into a Si−Pt bond and its pathway involving isomerization of the initial product.
■ RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONThe triplatinum(0) complexes with bridging diarylsilylene ligands, [{Pt(PMe 3 )} 3 (μ-SiAr 2 ) 3 ] (1: Ar = Ph, 2: Ar = C 6 H 4 F-4), were prepared by an equimolar reaction of H 2 SiAr 2 with [Pt(PMe 3 ) 4 ...