New paramagnetic ruthenium complexes via one-electron reduction of metallacumulenes

Stéphane Rigaut, Olivier Maury, Daniel Touchard, Pierre H. Dixneuf

Chemical Communications · 2001 · 50 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

One-electron reductions of [Cl(dppe)2RuCCCR2]PF6 (R = Ph, Me) and [Cl(dppe)2RuCCCCCPh 2]PF6 with Co(C5H5)2 provide radical species with the unpaired electron localized on the trisubstituted carbon atom of the cumulene moiety as shown by hydrogen atom capture and EPR spectroscopy.

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