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Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ruthenium dichloride dimer

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Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ruthenium dichloride dimer
Names
IUPAC name Di-μ-chlorido-bis
Other names Di-μ-chloro-bis
Dichloro(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ruthenium(III)
Identifiers
CAS Number
3D model (JSmol)
PubChem CID
InChI
  • InChI=1S/C10H15.2ClH.Ru/c1-7-6-10(4,5)9(3)8(7)2;;;/h1-5H3;2*1H;/q-1;;;+2/p-2Key: CHSNJSBMXZWKQT-UHFFFAOYSA-L
SMILES
  • CC1=C(C(=C1C)C)(C)C.ClCl
Properties
Chemical formula C20H30Cl4Ru2
Appearance brown solid
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C , 100 kPa). Infobox references
Chemical compound

Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ruthenium dichloride is an organoruthenium chemistry with the formula 2, commonly abbreviated 2. This brown paramagnetic solid is a reagent in organometallic chemistry. It is an unusual example of a compound that exists as isomers that differ in the intermetallic separation, a difference that is manifested in a number of physical properties.

Preparation, structure, reactions

The compound has C2h symmetry, with each metal atom having pseudo-octahedral geometry. In the crystal structure, two isomers are observed in the unit cell, one with a 2.93 Å ruthenium–ruthenium bond and the other with a long internuclear distance of 3.75 Å. The former isomer is diamagnetic, and the latter is magnetic.

It is prepared by the reaction of hydrated ruthenium trichloride with pentamethylcyclopentadiene.

2 Cp*H + 2 RuCl3·3H2O → 2 + 2 HCl + 6 H2O

The reaction is accompanied by formation of decamethylruthenocene.

Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ruthenium dichloride can reduced to the diamagnetic tetramer of Ru(II):

2 2 + 2 Zn → 4 + 2 ZnCl2

Methoxide also can be used to produce a related diruthenium(II) derivative, which is also diamagnetic:

2 + 3 NaOCH3 + HOCH3 → 2] + 3 NaCl + CH2O + HCl

Treating the tetramer with 1,5-cyclooctadiene in etheral solvent gives the mononuclear complex chloro(1,5-cyclooctadiene)(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ruthenium(II).

0.25 4 + 1,5-cyclooctadiene → Cp*RuCl(1,5-cyclooctadiene)

Compounds like Cp*RuCl(1,5-cyclooctadiene), the tetramer 4, and related diamagnetic Cp*Ru(III) complexes have been investigated as hydrogenation catalysts.

See also

References

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