“…The C-S distance of 1.761(7) Å is noticeably longer than that seen in other π-complexed C 5 and C 6 S-H substituted ring systems (ca. 1.72 Å), 16,17 18 The angles at phosphorus are all significantly reduced from tetrahedral, ranging between 99.7(2) and 102.7(3) Å, the most "acute" angle being that subtended by the two phenyl rings. As an investigation into its coordination chemistry, 2 was deprotonated (using n-butyllithium), treated with trans-[Pd(PhCN) 2 Cl 2 ] in toluene, and stirred at room temperature for 20 h. Following workup and crystallization in CH 2 Cl 2 -hexane (1:1), 3 was isolated as a brown microcrystalline powder in 64% yield, which analyzes as a bridged dimer species, with a structure seemingly analogous to the product formed with the previously reported 1-thiolate, 1′-(mesitylthio)ferrocene ligand; 12b that is, for each ligand in the Pd dimer, the thiolate S adopts a binucleating role.…”