Ligand dehydrogenation in ruthenium trinitrogen complexes: synthesis, structure and chirality of the cations [Ru(LH4)(L)]2+ [LH4 = 2,6-bis(pyrrolidin-2-yl)pyridine]
Date issued
2002
In
Inorg. Chem. Commun.
Vol
10
No
5
From page
787
To page
790
Subjects
ruthenium pyrrolidinylpyridine pyrrolylpyridine complex prepn structure crystal structure ruthenium pyrrolidinylpyridine pyrrolylpyridine complex
Abstract
Reaction of 2,6-bis(pyrrolidin-2-yl)pyridine (LH4) with RuCl3·3H2O in refluxing MeOH/H2O mixts. gives the octahedral complexes [Ru(LH4)(L)]2+, in which one of the two trihapto ligands was dehydrogenated as 2,6-bis(3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrrol-5-yl)pyridine (L), even if LH4 was present in excess. With the three stereoisomers of LH4, [Ru(R,S-LH4)(L)]2+ (meso), [Ru(R,R-LH4)(L)]2+ and [Ru(S,S-LH4)(L)]2+ were isolated as the perchlorate salts and characterized by x-ray structure anal. and by CD spectra. [on SciFinder(R)]
Publication type
journal article