contain several minor impurities not easily removed by fractional distillation; it was purified by partial neutralization with HC1, removal of volatile material at reduced pressure, and recovery after basification much as described elsewhere3 for the purification of piperidine; the distilled purified amine was shown by GLC to be of high purity. Butylmethylammonium chloride, mp 174-175 OC, was prepared by addition of 0.56 mol of HCl (as concentrated solution in water) to 0.64 mol of the amine, with stirring below 5 "C, cooling to -78 "C, collecting the crystalline salt, and recrystallizing from acetone. Anal. Calcd for C5H14C1N: C1, 28.68. Found (by potentiometric titration): C1, 28.64. 1 -(Butylmethylamino)-2,4-dinitronaphthalene (IC) was prepared by the reaction of l-chloro-2,4-dinitronaphthalene with a twofold excess of butylmethylamine in Me2S0, and crystallized from ethanol; mp 69.5-70.5 OC. Anal. Calcd for CI5Hl7O4N3: C, 59.40; H, 5.64; N, 13.85. Found: C, 59.60; H, 5.72; N, 13.91.Spectral Characteristics and Changes. IC in Me,SO shows a single broad absorption band with A,, 425 nm, e 7.80 X lo3 M-' cm-l. Upon addition of butylmethylamine (0.875 M), the spectrum changes to one of two bands with X , 391 and 522 nm and e respectively 1.45 X lo4 and 2.41 X lo4 M-' cm-I. The latter spectrum, attributed to 3c, was essentially fully developed after 5 h at ambient temperature.la in Me2S0 shows a single absorption band with A,, 439 nm, e 1.90 X lo4 M-' cm-I. Upon addition of pyrrolidine, the spectrum changes to one of two bands with A, , , 400 and 523 nm. When this spectrum due to 3a is fully developed, e at 523 nm is 1.85 X 10' M-' cm-' in the absence. of pyrrolidinium chloride and 2.16 X lo4 M-' cm-' in the presence of this salt (0.0104 M). lb in MezSO shows a single broad absorption band with X , 422 nm, e 7.8 X lo3 M-' cm-I. Upon addition of piperidine, the spectrum slowly changes to one with two bands, A , , 392 and 524 nm, attributed to 3b, but the data were not suitable for definitive evaluation of e for 3b.Kinetic Procedure. Reaction rates were determined by photometric observation of the absorbance at ca. 523 nm of reacting solutions. Determinations were made with use of a Gilford 2000 automated kinetics spectrophotometer with thermostated cell compartment. Good first-order behavior was observed in all cases. Rate constants were reckoned by the Guggenheim method. All kinetic runs were performed in duplicate; the rate constants reported are means of concordant values. The pseudofirst-order rate constant is symbolized k+ in Tables I and 11.
Acknowledgment.Abstract: The labilization of a coordinated formyl group in a platinum(I1) chelate by nucleophilic ligands has been examined structurally. The chelating ligand is the deprotonated dimeric Schiff base condensate of o-aminobenzaldehyde, The aldehyde was trapped in its uncoordinated form by adding a 1:l molar ratio of triphenylphosphine to the complex in acetonitrile. The resulting adduct crystallizes in the space group C2/c with unit cell dimensions a = 32.75...