Acta Cryst. (2007). E63, m244-m245  [ doi:10.1107/S160053680605358X ]

trans-Bromohydridobis(triphenylphosphine)platinum(II)

A. Sivaramakrishna, H. Su and J. R. Moss

Abstract: The title compound, [PtBrH(C₁₈H₁₅P)₂], has a square-planar environment around the Pt atom, with the hydride and bromide ligands being exactly collinear with Pt since they all lie on a crystallographic twofold rotation axis, and with mutually trans triphenylphosphine ligands with a P-Pt-P bond angle that is slightly bent towards the hydride [P-Pt-P = 170.81 (5)°]. The Pt-H distance (1.610 Å) is in good agreement with those found in structures determined by neutron diffraction.

Online 20 December 2006

Copyright © International Union of Crystallography
IUCr Webmaster