COMPLEXES OF OSMIUM WITH DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE

Osmium is the most rare and scattered element of platinum group metals. The chemistry of osmium is quite various, primarily due to the compounds of this element. Interest in dimethyl sulfoxide (dmso) was formed as a result of its unusual ability to dissolve the vast majority of organic and inorganic compounds and also form complexes with many elements. Dimethyl sulfoxide is an ambidentate ligand that can coordinate to metal either through the sulfur (dmso-S) or through the oxygen atom (dmso-O). Dimethyl sulfoxide complexes attract attention of researchers in recent decades because they are of interest for both pure and applied chemistry. Osmium compounds are relatively poorly studied among dimethyl sulfoxide complexes of platinum group metals.