Université de Fribourg

Efficient electronic communication of two ruthenium centers through a rigid ditopic N-heterocyclic carbene linker

Nussbaum, Michael ; Schuster, Oliver ; Albrecht, Martin

In: Chemistry – A European Journal, 2013, vol. 19, no. 51, p. 17517–17527

A ditopic benzobis(carbene) ligand precursor was prepared that contained a chelating pyridyl moiety to ensure co-planarity of the carbene ligand and the coordination plane of a bound octahedral metal center. Bimetallic ruthenium complexes comprising this ditopic ligand [L₄Ru-C,N-bbi-C,N-RuL₄] were obtained by a transmetalation methodology...