Photochemical Reductive <i>trans</i>‐Elimination from <i>trans</i>‐Diazidotetracyanoplatinate(IV)

Abstract

The first light‐induced reductive trans elimination has been observed with the trans ‐configurated Pt IV complex (1) . The primary photochemical step leads, via simultaneous two‐electron reduction avoiding a Pt III intermediate, to two N 3 radicals which afford N 2 and N atoms at low temperature. equation image