Interaction of the appropriate electron-rich olefin and chloride bridged PtII dimer has yielded the unreactive trans-PtII carbene complex (I) which is belived to isomerise thermally to the cis-isomer; the structure of the trans-complex is established inter alia by a single crystal X-ray analysis.
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Cardin et al. (1971) studied this question.