A Carbon-13 and Deuterium NMR Investigation of Solid Platinum−Ethylene Complexes:  Zeise's Salt and Pt(η²-C₂H₄)(PPh₃)₂

Abstract

The carbon chemical shift (CS) tensors for two platinum-ethylene complexes, ethylene-13 C 2 -bis(triphenylphosphine)platinum(0) and potassium trichloro(ethylene-13 C 2 )platinate(II), have been characterized by the dipolar-chemical shift method and with 2D spin-echo NMR experiments. The carbon CS tensors of the ethylene ligand are significantly modified upon coordination with platinum, particularly for the Pt(0) complex, to which ethylene is strongly coordinated. The most shielded principal component, δ 33 , perpendicular to the molecular plane in ethylene, is relatively unaffected by coordination; the changes to the CS tensors arise mainly from the increased shielding in the directions corresponding to δ 11 and δ 22 . Hence, the span of the chemical shift tensor decreases from 210 ppm for ethylene (Zilm, K. W.; Conlin, R. T.; Grant, D. M.; Michl, J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1980, 102, 6672) to 150 ppm for the Pt(II) complex, and to 48 and 55 ppm, respectively, for the two nonequivalent carbon nuclei of the Pt(0) complex. The orientations of the carbon CS tensor components relative to the 13 C, 13 C dipolar vector are also determined from this analysis. Orientations of the carbon CS tensors in the molecular framework are proposed on the basis of a combination of the experimental results and ab initio calculations using the GIAO method. Deuterium NMR studies of the ethylene-2 H 4 derivatives of the title compounds are characterized by long 2 H T 1 s and by quadrupolar coupling constants which are comparable in magnitude to that observed for rigid olefins, demonstrating that the ethylene ligand is not subject to significant motion. This conclusion is supported by ab initio calculations which indicate barriers to internal rotation for the ethylene ligand in excess of 80 kJ mol -1 in both complexes.

A 13C Solid-State NMR Investigation of the Alkynyl Carbon Chemical Shift Tensors for 2-Butyne-1,4-diol

“…A calculated powder spectrum based on the dipolar-chemical shift method thus yields an infinite set of solutions, with a given tensor component oriented along one of two cones. Further insight into CS tensor orientations may be provided by first principles calculations of the CS tensors [43][44][45][46][47][48].…”

Stereochemical Nonrigidity of Organometallic Complexes

“…111 Olefin rotation in deuterated (Ph 3 ) 2 Pt(ethylene) and K[Cl 3 Pt(ethylene)] was characterized by long T 1 's for the 2 H, which indicated slow rotation. 112 This indicates barriers in the solids of >80 kJ mol −1 . Measurements in solids can be influenced by nearest neighbor interactions and thus do not necessarily correlate with barriers measured in solution.…”

Solid‐State 13C NMR Evidence for Long Multicenter Intradimer Bonding in Zwitterion‐like Structures

“…The theory of the NMR chemical shielding is understood and both ab initio and DFT methods have been used to correlate the experimental chemical shift parameters with structure, conformation, hydrogen bond strength and other molecular properties for numerous compounds . More recent work has also demonstrated that NMR shifts can reliably predict crystal structures and provide estimates of uncertainties in individual atomic positions .…”

“…[12,20] The theory of the NMR chemical shielding is understood and both ab initio and DFT methods have been used to correlate the experimental chemical shift parameters with structure, conformation, hydrogen bond strength and other molecular properties for numerous compounds. [22][23][24][25][26][27] More recent work has also demonstrated that NMR shifts can reliably predict crystal structures [28][29][30][31] and provide estimates of uncertainties in individual atomicp ositions. [32,33] To understand the nature and strength of the intra-dimer bonding in b and d-[TTF···TCNE] the 13 Cs hift tensors, reported here for the first time, are compared to previously reported benchmark experimental data for TTF, [TTF] 2 2 + + , [19] TCNE, [TCNE] 2 2À ,and [TCNE] 2À .…”