Platinum organometallic compounds: classification and analysis of crystallographic and structural data. Monomeric Pt compounds with PtC2AB, PtA2BC and PtABCD compositions

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AbstractThis review covers almost 350 four-coordinated monomeric organoplatinum complexes with PtC2AB, PtA2BC and PtABCD compositions, and there is wide variability of chromophores. The most common ligands in addition to the C donor are PPh3 and chlorine. Platinum(II) is found only in a square-planar environment involving cis- as well as trans-configurations with a different degree of distortion, especially when bi- or terdentate ligands are present. The trans-effect decreases in the order of the atoms in which the effect dominates, H>C>P>Si>S. There are at least two types of isomerism, cis-trans and distortion. The data strongly suggest that distortion isomerism is, for platinum chemistry, more common than cis- and trans-isomerism.