Bromine, benzene, carbon disulphide, and chlorinated methane adducts of platinum dichloride

Abstract

β-Platinum dichloride reacts with a variety of small molecules A (A = Br₂, C₆H₆, CS₂, CCl₄, CHCl₃, or CH₂Cl₂) to give adducts of stoicheiometry Pt₆Cl_12.nA (n= 1 or 0.75). On the basis of spectroscopic, thermal, and X-ray powder results these compounds are formulated as clathrates and tentative assignments of their structures, based on host lattices of Pt₆Cl₁₂ molecules, are given.