Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Martin B. Smith and J. Derek Woollins
Chloride metathesis of [AuCl(HL)] [HL = Ph2P(O)NHPPh2] or [PdCl2(en)] (en = ethane-1,2-diamine) in CH3OH with either 1 (or 2) equivalents of [Ph2P(O)NP(E)Ph2]– (E = S or Se) gave the neutral compounds [Au{Ph2P(O)NP(E)Ph2-E}(HL)] or [Pd{Ph2P(O)NP(E)Ph2-E
}2(en)] respectively; the anionic ligands in these complexes adopt a new bonding mode and furthermore are involved in intramolecular N–H
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OP hydrogen bonding with HL or en.