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The Mechanisms of the Reactions between Hydrido-complexes and Diazonium Salts. Part 1. The Reaction of trans-
Frost, Victoria L.,Henderson, Richard A.
, p. 2059 - 2066 (2007/10/02)
The mechanism of the reaction between trans- and (p-R'C6H4N2)BF4 (R'= NO2, Cl, F, H, Me, or OMe) has been studied in acetonitrile.It has been shown to involve attack of the diazonium cation on the solvento-species trans-+, which labilises the hydridogroup resulting in its loss as a proton.Subsequent sustitution of the solvento-ligand, in the intermediate +, by chloride renders the aryldiazenido-ligand sufficiently basic to be protonated yielding the aryldiazene product, trans-+.The relevance of these studies to the formal 'insertion' of unsaturated molecules into the Pt-H bond is discussed.
