Heteroleptic N6 coordinated ruthenium(II) complexes as building blocks for the formation of discrete Ru2Ag2 complexes

Holger Willms; Matthew G Cowan; Sally Brooker

doi:10.1039/c0cc03969a

Heteroleptic N6 coordinated ruthenium(II) complexes as building blocks for the formation of discrete Ru2Ag2 complexes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Jan 21;47(3):1063-5. doi: 10.1039/c0cc03969a. Epub 2010 Nov 15.

Authors

Holger Willms¹, Matthew G Cowan, Sally Brooker

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.

PMID: 21076761
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc03969a

Abstract

A heteroleptic N(6) coordinated Ru(II) complex acts as a building block for a discrete tetranuclear mixed metal Ru(II)(2)Ag(I)(2) coordination compound; both complexes have been structurally characterised by X-ray crystallography.