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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 60, Issue 41, Pages 22352-22358Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202107485
Keywords
charge-transfer complexes; chlorine radicals; germanium; photochemistry; platinum
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1856453]
- Welch Foundation [A-1423]
- Texas AM University
- BioLEC, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science [DE-SC0019370]
- Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas AM University
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The study found that both isomeric complexes cleanly converted into the platinum germyl complex in the presence of a chlorine trap, with high quantum yields. The conversion of the Ge-IV-Pt-II isomer into the platinum germyl complex is a rare example of a light-induced transition-metal/main-group-element bond-forming process. Transient-absorption-spectroscopy studies on the Ge-III-Pt-III isomer suggest a ligand arene-Cl- charge-transfer complex as an intermediate.
Searching for a connection between the two-electron redox behavior of Group-14 elements and their possible use as platforms for the photoreductive elimination of chlorine, we have studied the photochemistry of [(o-(Ph2P)C6H4)(2)(GeCl2)-Cl-IV](PtCl2)-Cl-II and [(o-(Ph2P)C6H4)(2)ClGeIII](PtCl3)-Cl-III, two newly isolated isomeric complexes. These studies show that, in the presence of a chlorine trap, both isomers convert cleanly into the platinum germyl complex [(o-(Ph2P)C6H4)(2)ClGeIII](PtCl)-Cl-I with quantum yields of 1.7 % and 3.2 % for the Ge-IV-Pt-II and Ge-III-Pt-III isomers, respectively. Conversion of the Ge-IV-Pt-II isomer into the platinum germyl complex is a rare example of a light-induced transition-metal/main-group-element bond-forming process. Finally, transient-absorption-spectroscopy studies carried out on the Ge-III-Pt-III isomer point to a ligand arene-Cl-. charge-transfer complex as an intermediate.
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