Complexes of organometallic compounds

Abstract A number of novel compounds of dimethyllead(IV) and diphenyllead(IV) moieties with ligands having a rigid geometry when coordinating, have been prepared and characterized. The goal of the work was the building of model molecules for five-coordinated R 2 Pb IV , with known configuration of the CPbC skeleton. From spectroscopic data it is inferred that the complexes under investigation have a distorted bipyramidal trigonal structure, with the CPbC moiety allocated in the trigonal plane.