Reactive intermediates from carbonylation of ruthenium(I) carbonyl carboxylates. Isolation, molecular structures and chemical properties of dinuclearunbridged ruthenium carbonyl trifluoroacetates
T. Funaioli et al., Reactive intermediates from carbonylation of ruthenium(I) carbonyl carboxylates. Isolation, molecular structures and chemical properties of dinuclearunbridged ruthenium carbonyl trifluoroacetates, CHEM COMMUN, (20), 1999, pp. 2043-2044
Carboxylato-bridged Ru(I) carbonyl complexes are activated by CO towards bo
th disproportionation and reaction with dihydrogen, through the intermediac
y of the unbridged metal-metal bonded valence isomers (OC)(5)RuRu(CO)(3)- (
OCOCR3)(2) and [Ru(CO)(4)(OCOCR3)](2).