Synthesis of Ru–Pt and Ru–Pd mixed-metal imido clusters from a diruthenium imido-methylene scaffold [(Cp*Ru)2(μ2-NPh)(μ2-CH2)]†
Abstract
The diruthenium μ2-imido μ2-methylene complex [(Cp*Ru)2(μ2-NPh)(μ2-CH2)] serves as a bifunctional scaffold for cluster synthesis, producing a μ3-imido Ru2Pt cluster [(Cp*Ru)2(μ3-NPh)(μ2-CH2)Pt(PMe3)2] on treatment with [Pt(η2-C2H4)(PMe3)2] and a μ3-methylidyne Ru4Pd2 cluster [(Cp*Ru)2(μ2-NPh)(μ3-CH)PdCl]2 with [PdMeCl(cod)].