Sterically driven synthesis of ruthenium and ruthenium-silver N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

C Cesari; S Conti; S Zacchini; V Zanotti; M C Cassani; R Mazzoni

doi:10.1039/c4dt02747g

Sterically driven synthesis of ruthenium and ruthenium-silver N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

Dalton Trans. 2014 Dec 14;43(46):17240-3. doi: 10.1039/c4dt02747g.

Authors

C Cesari¹, S Conti, S Zacchini, V Zanotti, M C Cassani, R Mazzoni

Affiliation

¹ Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale "Toso Montanari", viale Risorgimento 4, 40136 Bologna, Italy. rita.mazzoni@unibo.it.

PMID: 25338159
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt02747g

Abstract

A straightforward and efficient synthetic route to novel Ru N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes by transmetallation of non-bulky silver NHC to ruthenium dicarbonyl tetraarylcyclopentadienone is described. The same procedure with sterically demanding NHC leads to unprecedented heterobimetallic Ru-Ag(NHC) complexes.