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Separating Innocence and Non-Innocence of Ligands and Metals in Complexes (L)Ru(acac)2n (n = -1, 0, +1; L = o-Iminoquinone or o-Iminothioquinone)

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Inorganic Chemistry, 42 (20): 6469--6473 (2003)
DOI: 10.1021/ic034469h

Abstract

The diamagnetic complexes (L)Ru(acac)2 (L = o-iminoquinone or o-iminothioquinone) were obtained from Ru(acac)2(CH3CN)2 and 2-aminophenol or 2-aminothiophenol, resp. X-ray structure anal. of (L1)Ru(acac)2 (L1 = o-iminoquinone) revealed C-C intra-ring, C-O, and C-N distances which suggest a RuIII-iminosemiquinone oxidn. state distribution with antiparallel spin-spin coupling. One-electron oxidn. and redn. of both title compds. to paramagnetic monocations (L)Ru(acac)2+ or monoanions (L)Ru(acac)2- occurs reversibly at widely sepd. potentials (DE \textgreater 1.3 V) and leads to low-energy shifted charge transfer bands. In comparison with clearly established RuII-semiquinone or RuIII-catecholate systems the g tensor components 2.23 \textgreater g1 \textgreater 2.09, 2.16 \textgreater g2 \textgreater 2.07, and 1.97 \textgreater g3 \textgreater 1.88 point to considerable metal contributions to the singly occupied MO, corresponding to RuIII complexes with either o-quinonoid ($\rightarrow$ cations) or catecholate-type ligands ($\rightarrow$ anions) and only minor inclusion of RuIV- or RuII-iminosemiquinone formulations, resp. The preference for the RuIII oxidn. state for all accessible species is partially attributed to the monoanionic 2,4-pentanedionate (acac) co-ligands which favor a higher metal oxidn. state than, e.g., neutral 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy). on SciFinder(R)

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