AND HIS PLATINUM COMPLEXES

The great interest being taken in the organometallic compounds 0.f thr platinum metals is evident in the current literature, in the.first Inter-national Conference on the Chemistry of the Platinum Group Metals held in Bristol in 1981, and now by the second conference to take placp in Edinburgh in July. This article reviews the preparation o,f the.first such compounds over a hundred and, f f t y years ago and thr acrimonious debate that ensued over their true constitution, continuing with a brief account of the early development o,f a,further rangr o,f platinum complexes that have come to play an important part in industrial chemistry. During the last thirty years there has developed a concentration of interest upon the preparation, structure and properties of a wide range of organometallic compounds of the platinum group of metals, much of this directe