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Highly-Unsaturated Platinum and Palladium Carbenes, PtC₃ and PdC₃, Isolated and Characterised in the Gas Phase

Lookup NU author(s): Dror Bittner, Dr Daniel Zaleski, Dr Nick WalkerORCiD, Professor Anthony Legon

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Abstract

Carbenes of platinum and palladium, PtC₃ and PdC₃, have been generated in the gas phase through laser vaporisation of a metal target in the presence of a low concentration of a hydrocarbon precursor undergoing supersonic expansion. Rotational spectroscopy and ab initio calculations confirm that both molecules are linear. The geometry of PtC₃ has been accurately determined by fitting to the experimental moments of inertia of twenty-six isotopologues. The results are consistent with the proposal of an autogenic isolobal relationship between O, Au⁺ and Pt.

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Author(s): Bittner DM, Zaleski DP, Tew DP, Walker NR, Legon AC

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Angewandte Chemie: International Edition

Year: 2016

Volume: 55

Issue: 11

Pages: 3768-3771

Print publication date: 07/03/2016

Online publication date: 16/02/2016

Acceptance date: 12/01/2016

Date deposited: 12/01/2016

ISSN (print): 1433-7851

ISSN (electronic): 1521-3773

Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201511646

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201511646

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