X-Ray crystal structure of tetrameric platinum(II) acetate: a square-cluster complex with short Pt–Pt bonds and octahedral co-ordination geometry

An X-ray crystallogrphic study shows that tetrameric platinum(II) acetate has a structure, of approximate symmetry D2d, in which each side (length 2.495 A) of a metal–metal bonded square of platinum atoms is spanned by two acetate groups.