Dc. Mudalige et al., MOLECULAR-HYDROGEN, MOLECULAR-NITROGEN AND MONOHYDRIDE DERIVATIVES OFTHE STRUCTURALLY CHARACTERIZED ETHYLANILINE)[TRIS(P-TOLYL)PHOSPHINE]RUTHENIUM(II) COMPLEX, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (10), 1993, pp. 830-832
The crystallographically characterised, five-coordinate complex phenyl
phosphino-N,N-dimethylaniline){P(p-tolyl)3}] reversibly binds H-2 and
N2 to form eta2-H-2 and sigma-N2 species, respectively; the former rea
cts with base to generate the chloro(hydrido) derivative.