X-Ray crystal structure of trans-chlorohydridobis(diop)ruthenium(II); an octahedral complex with inequivalent phosphorus atoms
Abstract
The HRuCl(diop)2 complex, although showing 31P and high-field 1H n.m.r. spectra typical of a cis-structure with inequivalent phosphorus atoms, has been shown by X-ray crystallography to have a distorted octahedron structure with the hydrogen trans to chlorine.