Ligand and Metal Effects in the Gas‐Phase Fragmentation of Thiomethoxymethyl Complexes

The Cover Feature illustrates the uneven fight between our gaseous hero Gas-Face (“He He He”) and the evil PP-Pig-Man “coordinating” cationic PtII-thiomethoxymethyl complexes. By virtue of Gas-Face′s superpower—to be everywhere—collisions of the (PP-Pig-Man-)diphospine complexes with helium cause their gas-phase fragmentation. Depending on the bite angle, different neutrals are lost: while neutral dimethylsulfide is preferentially ejected for bite angles >90° (here dPPb), the loss of ethene and thioformaldehyde dominates for bite angles <90° (here dPPm). More information can be found in the Research Article by B. Butschke and co-workers.