Symmetric and unsymmetric "dumbbells" of Ru2-alkynyl units via C-C bond formation reactions

Wei-Zhong Chen; Tong Ren

doi:10.1021/ic061511a

Symmetric and unsymmetric "dumbbells" of Ru2-alkynyl units via C-C bond formation reactions

Inorg Chem. 2006 Nov 13;45(23):9175-7. doi: 10.1021/ic061511a.

Authors

Wei-Zhong Chen¹, Tong Ren

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.

PMID: 17083213
DOI: 10.1021/ic061511a

Abstract

Oxidative homocoupling (Glaser) reaction of Ru2 compounds bearing peripheral ethyne resulted in symmetric dimers. Cross-coupling (Sonogashira) reaction between Ru2 compounds bearing peripheral iodo and ethyne groups yielded an unsymmetric dimer. Voltammetric data indicated that Ru2 units in the symmetric dimers are noninteracting, and the unsymmetric dimer is best described as a weakly coupled push-pull compound.