A surprisingly stable S-nitrosothiol complex.

In this work we present for the first time an X-ray structure of a coordinated S-nitrosothiol obtained by reaction of the extremely reactive K[IrCl5NO] with benzylmercaptan in acetonitrile. This surprisingly stable compound, trans-K[IrCl4(CH3CN)N(O)SCH2Ph], was isolated in high yield (80%) and fully characterized by FTIR, 1H NMR, and ESI-MS. To our knowledge this is the first example of a coordinated S-nitrosothiol that has been isolated.