Recently, examples of oxygen insertion into PdII and PtII methyl bonds have been reported, and different mechanisms for these reactions have been proposed. To increase our understanding of the reactions of late transition metal complexes and oxygen, PdII and PtII methyl complexes with the tridentate, bis(2-pyridylimino)isoindole (BPI) ligand were synthesized and characterized. The reactions of the MII-Me complexes with molecular oxygen were investigated and insertion of oxygen to form MII-OOMe species was observed. Details of these reactions including kinetic and mechanistic investigations will be presented.

Reactions of palladium and platinum methyl complexes with molecular oxygen

254th National Meeting (2017)

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