Undeca-carbon-yl[(4-methyl-sulfanylphen-yl)di-phenyl-phosphane]triruthenium(0): crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis

Omar Bin Shawkataly; Hafiz Malik Hussien Abdelnasir; Siti Syaida Sirat; Mukesh M Jotani; Edward R T Tiekink

doi:10.1107/S2056989018006989

Undeca-carbon-yl[(4-methyl-sulfanylphen-yl)di-phenyl-phosphane]triruthenium(0): crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis

Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2018 May 15;74(Pt 6):791-795. doi: 10.1107/S2056989018006989. eCollection 2018 Jun 1.

Authors

Omar Bin Shawkataly¹, Hafiz Malik Hussien Abdelnasir², Siti Syaida Sirat¹, Mukesh M Jotani³, Edward R T Tiekink⁴

Affiliations

¹ Chemical Sciences Programme, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia.
² Department of Chemistry, Alzaiem Alazhari University, 1933, Khartoum, Sudan.
³ Department of Physics, Bhavan's Sheth R. A. College of Science, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380001, India.
⁴ Research Centre for Crystalline Materials, School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.

Abstract

The title cluster compound, [Ru₃(C₁₉H₁₇PS)(CO)₁₁], comprises a triangle of Ru⁰ atoms, two of which are bonded to four carbonyl ligands. The third metal atom is bound to three carbonyl ligands and the phosphane-P atom of a dissymmetric phosphane ligand, PPh₂(C₆H₄SMe-4); no Ru⋯S inter-actions are observed. The phosphane occupies an equatorial position and its proximity to an Ru-Ru edge results in the elongation of this bond with respect to the others [2.8933 (2) Å cf. 2.8575 (2) and 2.8594 (3) Å]. In the crystal, phenyl-C-H⋯O(carbon-yl) and carbonyl-O⋯O(carbon-yl) [2.817 (2) Å] inter-actions combine to form a supra-molecular chain propagating along [111]; the chains pack without directional inter-actions between them. The carbonyl-O⋯O(carbon-yl) and other weak contacts have an influence upon the Hirshfeld surfaces with O⋯H contacts making the greatest contribution, i.e. 37.4% cf. 15.8% for O⋯O and 15.6% for H⋯H contacts.

Keywords: Hirshfeld surface analysis; carbonyl; cluster; crystal structure; ruthenium.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by Universiti Sains Malaysia grant 1001/PJJAUH/8011002 to Omar bin Shawkataly. Universiti Teknologi MARA grant to Siti Syaida Sirat.