17 The noble metals

Abstract

Platinum chemistry contains many highlights. The elucidation of the biochemical activity of Pt complexes continues to be developed effectively by NMR spectroscopic studies. Griesser et al. (R. Griesser, G. Kampf, L. E. Kapinos, S. Komeda, B. Lippert, J. Reedijk and H. Sigel, Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 32, ) and Colonna et al. (G. Colonna, N. G. Di Masi, L. G. Marzilli and G. Natile, Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 997, ) provide good examples of this work. Among developments in organometallic chemistry, studies of Pt complexes of functionalised carbenes by Lin et al. (G. Lin, N. D. Jones, R. A. Gossage, R. McDonald and R. G. Cavell, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 2003, 42, 4054 and N. D. Jones, G. Lin, R. A. Gossage, R. McDonald and R. G. Cavell, Organometallics, 2003, 22, 2832,) are specially noteworthy.