Tapping the potential of Ru I: Reactivity of monomeric and dimeric cases

INOR 129

Kenneth G. Caulton, caulton@indiana.edu1, Amy Walstrom, angroves@indiana.edu1, Maren Pink, mpink@indiana.edu2, and Hongjun Fan, honfan@indiana.edu1. (1) Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, (2) Department of Chemistry, Molecular Structure Center, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405-7102

Easy synthetic access to [(Cym)RuCl]2, where cym is p-iPr-toluene, allows evaluation of the reducing potential of this Ru/Ru bonded species of monovalent Ru. It is oxidized by HCl to give Cym2Ru2Cl2(m-H)(m-Cl). The products of its reaction with double- and single-oxygen atom transfer reagents O2 and Me3NO will be discussed. [N(SiMe2CH2PtBu2)2]RuCl reacts with N2 in the presence of magnesium powder to form a diamagnetic product which binds N2; the details of electron redistribution in this product will be discussed.

 

Organometallic Synthesis
1:30 PM-5:20 PM, Sunday, August 19, 2007 BCEC -- 212, Oral

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007