“…They are also of interest as one of the few examples of oxide families containing divalent Pt. Other compounds containing Pt 2+ are PtO (Westwood & Bennewitz, 1974), Na2PtO 2 (Urland & Hoppe, 1972), Bil.6Pbo.4PtO 4 (Boivin, Conflant & Thomas, 1976), K3Pt20 4 (Zentgraf, Claes & Hoppe, 1980), and compounds of the type M x Pt304 of which Na~Pt304 (Waser & McClanahan, 1951;Scheer, van Arkel & Heydig, 1955;Cahen, Ibers & Wagner, 1974;Schwartz, Prewitt, Shannon, Corliss, Hastings & Chamberland, 1982) is the most well known example. Muller & Roy (1969) prepared polycrystalline CuPt306 using CuO and Pt black at 1163 K and 20 M Pa of 02.…”