Issue 19, 1990

The interconversion of quasi-planar butterfly and tetrahedral tetraruthenium cluster geometries: X-ray crystal structure of tetrahedral [H2ru4(CO)10(µ-PPh2)2]

Abstract

The quasi-planar 64-electron butterfly cluster [Ru4(CO)13(µ-PPh2)2] reacts with dihydrogen under photolysis giving the 60-electron tetrahedral cluster [H2Ru4(CO)10(µ-PPh2)2], a transformation which can be reversed under a pressure of carbon monoxide; the two hydride ligands in the unsymmetric [H2Ru4(CO)10(µ-PPh2)2] have been located via a single crystal X-ray analysis.

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J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 1352-1353

The interconversion of quasi-planar butterfly and tetrahedral tetraruthenium cluster geometries: X-ray crystal structure of tetrahedral [H2ru4(CO)10(µ-PPh2)2]

G. Hogarth, N. Hadj-Bagheri, N. J. Taylor and A. J. Carty, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 1352 DOI: 10.1039/C39900001352

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