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Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Sep 15;56(73):10738-10741. doi: 10.1039/d0cc04426a.

A metastable Ru.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Sungho V Park, Charles G Fry, Eckhard Bill, John F Berry

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 32789338 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04426a

Abstract

The metastable purple [(Py5Me2)RuIII(N3)]2+ ion reacts with PPh3 at room temperature to form the phosphinimine complex [(Py5Me2)RuII(N(H)PPh3)]2+ and free [H2NPPh3]+ in a combined 23% conversion. Mechanistic studies suggest that this is the first metallo-Staudinger reaction of a late transition metal that bypasses the nitrido mechanism and instead utilizes a Ru-N[double bond, length as m-dash]N[double bond, length as m-dash]N-PPh3 phosphazide intermediate.

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