Hiroshige Yamaura, Koji Yamamoto and Tetsuro Murahashi
Chem. Commun., 2021,57, 9120-9123
DOI:
10.1039/D1CC03719F,
Communication
Certain metal sandwich complexes undergo dimerization through metal–metal bond formation. Here, we found that a reductive dimerization of mixed-metal Pd2Pt or PdPt2 sandwich complexes proceeds through selective Pt–Pt bond formation. A restricted rotation at the Pt–Pt bond of the PdPt2 dimer gave a unique axially chiral structure derived from a heterometal arrangement in a mixed-metal cluster.