A facile route to Ru-alkylidenes†
Abstract
Reactions of dithioacetal E(CH2CH2S)2CHR (E = O, S, R = Ph, C6F5) and O(C6H4S)2CHPh with either Ru(cod)(cot) or Ru(PPh3)3(H)2 are used to prepare the Ru-alkylidene complexes E(CH2CH2S)2RuCHPh(L), O(C6H4S)2RuCHPh(L) (L = PCy3, SIMes) in high yields.