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Tuning Reactivity of Platinum(II) Complexes

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Chapter 8<br />

<strong>Tuning</strong> <strong>Reactivity</strong> <strong>of</strong> platinum(<strong>II</strong>) complexes: A Kinetic and Mechanistic<br />

Investigation into Substitution Behaviour <strong>of</strong> Mono- and Dinuclear<br />

<strong>Platinum</strong>(<strong>II</strong>) <strong>Complexes</strong><br />

Summary<br />

Inspired by the trend to generate new types <strong>of</strong> Pt(<strong>II</strong>) compounds with anti-cancer<br />

activity, the main aim <strong>of</strong> this study was to investigate the thermodynamic and kinetic<br />

properties <strong>of</strong> square-planar Pt(<strong>II</strong>) complexes with N-donor ligands that exhibit antitumor<br />

activity. A further aim was to determine whether the linker remains attached to the metal<br />

centre when the geometry and environment <strong>of</strong> the Pt(<strong>II</strong>) centre is cis to the leaving ligand<br />

in multinuclear platinum(<strong>II</strong>) compounds.<br />

A series <strong>of</strong> complexes introduced in Chapter 3 consists <strong>of</strong> mononuclear Pt(<strong>II</strong>) centres<br />

coordinated by tridentate N-donor ligands. The main feature <strong>of</strong> these complexes is that<br />

they are all characterised by the presence <strong>of</strong> a delocalised π-system that permits facile<br />

transfer <strong>of</strong> electrons from the metal to the ligand, while they differ by the way the fused<br />

ring system around the terpy moiety is structured. The objective was to investigate<br />

thermodynamic and kinetic properties <strong>of</strong> the complexes, mainly focusing on their<br />

dependence on the strength <strong>of</strong> π-backbonding <strong>of</strong> the spectator ligands around the Pt(<strong>II</strong>)<br />

centre. Therefore, substitution reactions with thiourea and its derivatives and anions<br />

(SCN¯, I¯ Br¯) were performed with the corresponding chloro complexes at an ionic<br />

strength <strong>of</strong> 0.1 M NaClO4 in presence <strong>of</strong> 10 mM LiCl to prevent solvolysis.<br />

In comparing the reactivity <strong>of</strong> [Pt(terpy)Cl] + (PtCl) and pyPhenPtCl, (phen =<br />

phenanthroline), the extensive π-conjugation <strong>of</strong> the fused-ring system <strong>of</strong> the phen ligand,<br />

coupled with enhanced electronic communication in the aromatic system around the<br />

platinum centre, led to higher reactivity for pyPhenPtCl than PtCl. The most important<br />

feature <strong>of</strong> this work however, was elucidation <strong>of</strong> the effect <strong>of</strong> introducing the isoquinoline<br />

moiety instead <strong>of</strong> pyridine on the lability <strong>of</strong> the chloride ligand in CH3PhisoqPtCl<br />

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