Cisplatin Pt-Cl Pt-N N-Pt-N N-Pt-Cl Cl-Pt-Cl Calculated 2.292 2.340 2.077 2.037 98.4 90.5 83.1 88.4 95.4 92.7 Expt (averaged)1 2.330 2.010 87.0 90.3 91.9 Expt (range)1 2.333, 2.328 1.950, 2.050 87.0 ± 1.5 92.0 ± 1, 88.5 ± 1 91.9 ± 0.3

1See reference [30]

Table 1: Gas-phase and solution-phase (bold) optimized geometries of cisplatin and the comparison of the geometries from experiment. All distances are in Å and angles are in º