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Tuning Reactivity of Platinum(II) Complexes

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NH3 NH3<br />

OH2 OH2<br />

k1 k1<br />

NH3 NH3 NU<br />

Pt L Pt Pt L Pt Pt L Pt<br />

NU<br />

NU<br />

OH2 OH2<br />

NU<br />

OH OH2 NH3<br />

NH NH3<br />

2 NH3<br />

NH NH3<br />

3<br />

Charges are omitted for clarity<br />

17<br />

k2 k2<br />

NH3 NH3<br />

NU<br />

where, L = bridge = pzn, 2, 3pzn, 2, 5pzn, and 2, 6pzn<br />

nu = nucleophile = TU, DMTU, TMTU<br />

k3 k3<br />

NU<br />

UN<br />

NU<br />

Pt<br />

NU<br />

NU + L<br />

Scheme 4.2 Proposed reaction pathways for the reactions between the Pt(<strong>II</strong>)<br />

complexes and the thiourea nucleophiles at a pH <strong>of</strong> 2.0.<br />

The first two steps represent the nucleophilic substitutions <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the coordinated<br />

aqua ligands in each step. The reduced reactivity at the second Pt(<strong>II</strong>) centre in the<br />

second step is attributed to steric hindrance around the Pt(<strong>II</strong>) centre arising from the<br />

first substituted thiourea nucleophile and the methyl substituents on the pyrazine-<br />

bridging linker. The final step is the slowest and is ascribed to the release <strong>of</strong> the linker<br />

and ammines following the coordination <strong>of</strong> a further thiourea ligands to the Pt(<strong>II</strong>) centre<br />

in all the complexes. This was confirmed by monitoring the release <strong>of</strong> free pyrazine<br />

using the 1 H NMR. 39,40 The spectral arrays can be seen in Figure 4.8.<br />

The substitution <strong>of</strong> the first aqua ligands by TU and its derivatives for all the complexes<br />

was too fast to be monitored on the UV-Visible or NMR time-scale and was followed by<br />

the stopped-flow technique. The second and third substitution steps were monitored<br />

from the UV-Visible kinetic traces. Representative plots <strong>of</strong> the time-resolved stopped-<br />

flow and UV-Visible kinetic traces for the reaction <strong>of</strong> 2,5pzn and TU are shown in Figure<br />

4.4. The UV-Visible kinetic traces were fitted using a double exponential function to give<br />

kobs for the second and the third substitution, respectively.

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