Université de Fribourg

Modulating the steric, electronic, and catalytic properties of cp* ruthenium half-Sandwich complexes with β-diketiminato ligands

Phillips, Andrew D. ; Thommes, Katrin ; Scopelliti, Rosario ; Gandolfi, Claudio ; Albrecht, Martin ; Severin, Kay ; Schreiber, Dominique F. ; Dyson, Paul J.

In: Organometallics, 2011, vol. 30, no. 22, p. 6119–6132

Five different types of β-diketiminate ligands, bearing electron-donating to strongly electron-withdrawing substituents, were synthesized and used in the synthesis of Cp* ruthenium complexes (Cp* = η⁵-C₅Me₅). One series consists of complexes with a covalent RuIII–Cl bond, and the other series features a reduced RuII center, where the chloride is abstracted by...