Dirk Steinborn, Michael Gerisch, Frank W. Heinemann and Clemens Bruhn
The platina-β-diketone [Pt2(µ-Cl)2{(COMe)2H}2 ] 4a reacts with aniline or p-toluidine to give the first platina-β-diketonato complexes of platina-β-diketones [{(NH2R)ClPt(µ-COMe)2Pt[(COMe)2H ]}2] (R = Ph 5, p-MeC6H4 6), whose X-ray crystal structures reveal the formation of head-to-head dimers with zigzag Pt4 chains analogous to platinum blue complexes.