摘要:
Attempted syntheses of ruthenium(II) monosubstituted squarate complexes in acetonitrile using cis-[RuCl2(dmso)(4)] and anisole-, methoxy-, methyl- and diphenylamino-squarate ligands, respectively, resulted in the formation in each case of the monomer cis, fac-Ru(CH3CN)Cl-2(dmso)(3) (1) with the ruthenium atom in a distorted octahedral environment. A second crop of crystals harvested from the reaction with the methoxysquarate ligand was identified as the oxalato-bridged dimer [{cis-(CH3CN)(Cl)(dmso)(2)Ru}(2)(mu-C2O4)] (2). When cis-[RuCl2(dmso)(4)] and methylsquarate were reacted in aqueous solution instead of acetonitrile, the dimer [(Cl)(dmso)(3)Ru 2(mu-C2O4)] (3) was produced. The dimers 2 and 3 are formed from oxidation/ring opening of the methoxy- and methyl-squarate ligands, respectively. Use of the salts of these ligands instead of their non-ionised forms under different reaction conditions, afforded [Na] fac-[RuCl3(dmso)(3)] (4) and [(C4H9)(4)N](2)[(C4O4)(C4H2O4)(2)] (7), respectively, which were shown to be products of competing reactions. The information acquired from these failed attempts has provided the basis for the development of a strategy to overcome these problems and lead to a successful synthetic route to ruthenium(II) monosubstituted squarates. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.