Rearrangements of phosphinoimines to phosphine–imines in ruthenium chelate complexes†
Abstract
Thermal reaction of 1 : 1 mixtures of the RuCl2(PPh3)3 and phosphinoimine R2PNCPh2 (R = Ph, iPr, Me) at 140 °C results in isolation of the dimeric species [RuCl(μ-Cl)(PPh3)(C6H4(PPh2)C(Ph)NH)]2 (R = Ph 1, iPr 2, Me 3) containing phosphine–