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Ambi-Valence Taken Literally: Ruthenium vs Iron Oxidation in (1,1'-Diphosphinoferrocene)ruthenium(II) Hydride and Chloride Complexes as Deduced from Spectroelectrochemistry of the Heterodimetallic \dqMixed-Valent\dq Intermediates

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Organometallics, 29 (21): 5511--5516 (2010)
DOI: 10.1021/om1004258

Abstract

Combining two different redox-active organometallic moieties, we prepd. the compds. (Cym)RuCl(dpf)(PF6), with Cym = p-cymene = 1-isopropyl-4-methylbenzene, and the diphosphinoferrocenes (dpf) 1,1'-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene (dppf; complex 3), 1,1'-bis(diisopropylphosphino)ferrocene (dippf; complex 4), and 1,1'-bis(diethylphosphino)ferrocene (depf; complex 5) as well as the structurally characterized hydride complex (C5Me5)RuH(dippf) (2). In contrast to the case for 2, with an approx. staggered ferrocene conformation, the chloride complexes 3-5 exhibit a syn-periplanar ferrocene arrangement due to a Cl···H(C5H4) interaction in the solid and in soln. The related new compds. (Cym)RuH(dppf)(PF6) (6) and trinuclear (m-dpf)(Cym)RuCl22 (7-9) were also obtained and identified by 1H and 31P NMR spectroscopy. The redox behavior of 2-6 and of the known (C5Me5)RuH(dppf) (1) was investigated using cyclic voltammetry, spectroelectrochem. in the UV/vis/near-IR and IR regions, and, in part, by EPR. The first oxidn. of the areneruthenium compds. 3-6 occurs reversibly at the ferrocene site, while the redn. proceeds via an ECE two-electron pattern under chloride dissocn. These results are compared to those obtained for the pentamethylcyclopentadienide/hydride complexes 1 and 2, which demonstrate unambiguously the ruthenium center as the site of the first electron loss. The different results for the two kinds of heterodimetallic d5/d6 mixed-valent intermediates, FeIIRuIII for 1+ and 2+ and FeIIIRuII for 3+-6+, are discussed with respect to the possible uses of such heterodinuclear systems in H2 conversion catalysis. on SciFinder(R)

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