Reactivity of 1,3-ynone in transformation of Ru2–Ru4 clusters Formation of ruthenoles via tetraruthenium intermediate》.pdf

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 799-800 (2015) 166 e172 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Organometallic Chemistry journal homepage: /locate/jorganchem Reactivity of 1,3-ynone in transformation of Ru2eRu4 clusters: Formation of ruthenoles via tetraruthenium intermediate * ** Jindou Yang, Weiqiang Zhang , Guofang Zhang , Ziwei Gao Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, MOE/School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710062, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A robust “soft and hard” alkyne ligand, 1,3-ynone, induced the stepwise transformation of ruthenium Received 17 August 2015 carbonyl clusters. The thermolysis reactions of Ru3(CO)12 (1) with 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3-phenylprop- Received in revised form 2-yn-1-one (2) were systematically investigated. A diverse range of products formed via finely tuning the 23 September 2015 molar ratios of the reactants. When 1 reacted with one equivalent of 2, triruthenium cluster 3 and Accepted 28 September 2015 Available online xxx tetraruthenium cluster 4 were isolated. Further increasing 2 led to the formation of three ruthenoles 5a, 5b and 5c, in which the ynone moieties couple in head to head, head to tail and tail to tail modes,