The photophysical properties of gold nanoparticles, AuNPs, with sizes of 13, 50 and 100 nm in diameter, coated with surface-active ruthenium complexes have been studied to investigate the effect of the distance of the ruthenium luminescent centre from the gold surface. Luminescence lifetimes of the three ruthenium probes, RuS1, RuS6 and RuS12, with different length spacer units between the surf...

The chemistry of metal cyclopropenyl complexes derived from deprotonation of cationic ruthenium vinylidene complexes is reviewed. Such a metal coordinated cyclopropenyl ligand can be used for the preparation of heterocyclic compounds. The chemical reactivity of cyclopropenyl complexes is influenced by the nature of substituents on the three-membered ring and by the nature of ancillary ligand ar...

We describe a crystal structure, at atomic resolution (1.1 Å, 100 K), of a ruthenium polypyridyl complex bound to duplex DNA, in which one ligand acts as a wedge in the minor groove, resulting in the 51° kinking of the double helix. The complex cation Λ-[Ru(1,4,5,8-tetraazaphenanthrene)(2)(dipyridophenazine)](2+) crystallizes in a 11 ratio with the oligonucleotide d(TCGGCGCCGA) in the presence ...

Novel ruthenium(II) complexes were obtained as a result of a stoichiometric reaction of Grubbs' benzylidene second generation catalysts with 3-nitropropene. These stable complexes, formally ruthenaisoxazole N-oxide derivatives, display activity in both metathesis and non-metathetic processes such as cycloisomerisation, isomerisation and transfer hydrogenation.

An intramolecular Diels-Alder (IMDA) reaction was observed at room temperature between an allyl group and a chloroanthracenyl group that were both bonded to the vinylidene ligand of the cationic ruthenium complex [Ru]dCdC(CH2CHdCH2)CH(CH2CHdCH2)(C14H8Cl) (6; [Ru] ) Cp(PPh3)3Ru). The vinylidene ligand functions as a mediator to bring the allyl and the chloroanthracenyl groups in proximity for th...

By using [Ru(TTP)CO] [H2TTP = meso-tetrakis(4-tolyl)porphyrin] as catalyst and aryl azides as the nitrene source, the sp(2)(C-H) bonds of a series of indoles undergo oxidative C-N bond formation to give unique 2,3-diimination products in good to high yields.

The membrane-bound, solubilized, and trypsin-treated forms of Mg, Ca-ATPase from E. coli are inhibited by ruthenium red [RR]. The inhibition is noncompetitive and is reduced at higher substrate concentrations. n-Butanol-extracted ATPase is not inhibited by ruthenium red and is not activated by KCl.

The catalytic water oxidation activity of mononuclear ruthenium complexes comprising a pyridine-functionalized abnormal triazolylidene ligand can be adjusted by modification of the triazolylidene substituents, which is readily achieved through click-type cycloaddition chemistry, affording some of the most active ruthenium catalysts known thus far for water oxidation (TONs > 400, TOFs close to 7...

Unlike many other metal and metalloid ions, tin(II) elicits intense, analytically useful chemiluminescence upon reaction with tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(III) in acidic aqueous solution. This finding provides new insight into the nature of this widely used reagent and has enabled the first direct, selective determination of a metal ion with tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(III).

A dinuclear ruthenium(II) complex Ruazo was designed and synthesized, in which oxidative cyclization of the azo and o-amino group was employed for the detection of hypochlorous acid (HClO) in aqueous solution. The non-emissive Ruazo formed highly luminescent triazole-ruthenium(II) complex in presence of HClO and successfully imaged HClO in living cell and living mouse.