Some Mechanistic Evidence for an Oxygen Transfer Reaction Accompanied by the Redox-Induced Nitrito-Nitro Linkage Isomerization of Ruthenium Complex Having Nitrosyl, <i>cis</i>-[Ru(NO)(X)(bpy)2]2+ (X = ONO, NO2)

Abstract

Abstract An oxygen transfer between the NO and the ONO ligands occurs in cis-[Ru(NO)(ONO)(bpy)2]2+ when the complex undergoes a redox-induced nitrito-to-nitro linkage isomerization. Such an oxygen transfer does not occur in a themally-induced linkage isomerization reported previously.