The title compound, [RuCl(2)(C(10)H(14))(C(6)H(6)FN)], a pseudo-octa-hedral d(6) complex, has the expected piano-stool geometry around the Ru(II) atom. The fluoro-aniline ring forms a dihedral angle of 19.3 (2)° with the p-cymene ring. In the crystal, two mol-ecules form an inversion dimer via a pair of N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds. Weak inter-molecular C-H⋯Cl inter-actions involving the p-cymene ring...

1,1 0-Ferrocene dicarboxylic acid pyridin-4-yl ester (1) is prepared from 1,1 0-ferrocene dicarbonyl chloride and 4-hydroxypyridine. This new bidentate ferrocenoyl ligand reacts with the monocationic complex [(g-p-cymene)2Ru2(l-OH)3] + to give the dicationic complex [(g-p-cymene)2Ru2(l-OH)2(1,1 0(NC5H4–OOC)2–Fc)] 2+ (2) (Fc: C5H4–Fe–C5H4), isolated as a tetrafluoroborate salt. The single-crysta...

Cationic tetranuclear arene ruthenium complexes of the general formula [Ru4(p-cymene)4(N N)2(dhnq)2] comprising rectangular structures are obtained in methanol from the reaction of the dinuclear arene ruthenium precursor [Ru2(p-cymene)2(dhnq)2Cl2] (dhnq = 5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinonato) with pyrazine or bipyridine linkers [N N = pyrazine, 1; 4,4 -bipyridine, 2; 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene, 3...

The title compound, i.e., [RuCl2(η6-p-cymene)(PPh2NHnPr)] (2), was obtained in a 71% yield by reacting toluene solution of the chlorophosphine complex [RuCl2(η6-p-cymene)(PPh2Cl)] (1) with two equivalents n-propylamine at room temperature. aminophosphine 2 characterized elemental analysis, multinuclear NMR (31P{1H}, 1H and 13C{1H}) IR spectroscopy. In addition, its catalytic behavior hydration ...

A coordination cage with an elusive icosahedral geometry was obtained by K+-induced rearrangement of a hexanuclear [(cymene)Ru(pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate)]6 complex.