P. Rosa et al., Syntheses and X-ray structures of (2,2 '-biphosphinine)-(eta 5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ruthenium(I) dimer and ruthenium(0) complexes, ORGANOMETAL, 19(24), 2000, pp. 5247-5250
Reduction of the [Ru(Cp*)(tmbp) Cl] complex (tmbp = 4,4',5,5'-tetramethyl-2
,2'-biphosphinine) with 1 and 2 equiv of sodium naphthalenide respectively
yield a dimeric (Ru(Cp*)(tmbp)](2) complex and a (Ru(Cp*) (tmbp)][Na(DME)(2
)] complex: which were both structurally characterized. Trapping the Ru(0)
complex with MeI, Ph3SnCl, Me3SnCl, or H+ affords the corresponding Ru(II)
derivatives.