Reactivity of hydroxo palladium and platinum complexes towards N-substituted salicylaldimines and [beta]-ketoimines

The binuclear hydroxo complexes [{M(C6F5)2(μOH)}2]2-(M=PdandPt)reactwithN-substituted salicylaldimines (HSal=NR) or β-ketoimines (RN=CMeCH2COR') to give the corresponding N-substituted salicylaldiminato or β-ketoiminato mononuclear complexes, [M(C6F5)2(Sal=NR)]- (M=Pd or Pt; R= Me, Et, Ph, o-MeC6H4, p-MeC6H4 or p-ClC6H4) or [(C6F5)2M{N(R)C(CH3)CHC(O)R'}]- (M=Pd or Pt; R=o-MeC6H4 or p-MeC6H4; R'=Me or Ph), respectively. The complexes have been characterized by partial elemental analyses, conductance measurements and spectroscopic (i.r. and 1H and 19F- n.m.r.) methods.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]