Thangavel Sathiya Kamatchi , Thomas Michael Scherer , Rajendran Dinesh , Giriraj Kalaiarasi , Subramanian Muthumari , Horst Puschmann , Wolfgang Kaim , Karuppannan Natarajan
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Abstract
The discovery of the pyrazine-bridged mixed-valent Creutz-Taube complex has triggered substantial focus on ligand-bridged symmetrical dinuclear ruthenium complexes to investigate intermetallic electronic coupling towards versatile applications. In this context, the synthesis, structure, electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical characterization of two redox-active symmetrical diruthenium complexes [(PPh3)2H(CO)Ru(μ-L)Ru(CO)H(PPh3)2] (1) and [(AsPh3)2H(CO)Ru(μ-L)Ru(CO)H(AsPh3)2] (2), (L = pzdca = 2,5-pyrazine dicarboxylate) was undertaken. Structural characterization unveils the presence of diruthenium units bridged by a bis-bidentately coordinated 2,5-pyrazine dicarboxylate ligand. Cyclic voltammetry, in conjunction with IR, EPR, and UV–Vis-NIR spectroelectrochemical studies, showed that complex 1 exhibited an irreversible oxidation, but a reversible one-electron reduction and that 1- could be studied by the given techniques, which revealed the expected bridging ligand-centred reduction process. Complex 1 had reversible electrochemical behaviour and witnessed the generation of a radical bridge [(PPh3)2H(CO)RuII(μ-pzdca●–)RuII(CO)H(PPh3)2].
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Launched in January 1998, Inorganic Chemistry Communications is an international journal dedicated to the rapid publication of short communications in the major areas of inorganic, organometallic and supramolecular chemistry. Topics include synthetic and reaction chemistry, kinetics and mechanisms of reactions, bioinorganic chemistry, photochemistry and the use of metal and organometallic compounds in stoichiometric and catalytic synthesis or organic compounds.