E. Delgado et al., COORDINATIVELY AND ELECTRONICALLY UNSATURATED TETRARUTHENIUM CLUSTERS- REVERSIBLE TRIPLE CO ADDITION TO RU-4(CO)(9)(MU-PPH2)[MU(4)-PH2PCC(PH)CC(PH)], Organometallics, 17(14), 1998, pp. 2936-2938
Two electronically unsaturated tetraruthenium clusters, Ru-4(CO)(9)(mu
-PPh2)[mu(4)-Ph2PCC(Ph) CC(Ph)] (2) and Ru-4(CO)(10)(mu-PPh2)[mu(4)-Ph
2PC(Ph)CCC(Ph)] (3), with spiked-triangular and open-chain structures
have been synthesized via head-to-tail and head-to-head coupling of bi
nuclear acetylides: cluster 2 contains a coordinatively unsaturated me
tal center and undergoes a. fully reversible triple addition of carbon
monoxide to afford Ru-4(CO)(11)(mu-PPh2)[mu(4)-Ph2PC(O)CC(Ph)CC(Ph)]
(4).