Abstract
A new dithio chelate, bis (N-methyl-, N-phenyl-β-mercaptothiocinnamamido) palladium-(II) was prepared by the novel simultaneous sulfurization reaction of the carbonyl-and amide-group of N-methylbenzoylacetamide with phosphorus pentasulfide. The obtained complex was studied by infrared and mass spectral procedures. The complex did not produce pyridine clathrate unlike the cases of the palladium complexes of the N-dimethylatedligands. This is likely because the N-methylated palladium complex lacks the thioamide protons with which pyridine molecules are able to interact by forming hydrogen bonds.
