Bimetallic ruthenium(II)ruthenium(III) complexes. A molecular orbital view

✍ Scribed by Joseph W. Lauher

• Book ID: 104139016
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 450 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-1693
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-1693(00)93644-2

✦ Synopsis

The structures of bimetallic ruthenium(II)-tuthenium(III) ions with a variety of bridging ligands are considered using molecular orbital methods. These ions may by symmetrical with equivalent metal centers or may be distorted with nonequivalent sites, which in the extreme can be identified as Ru(II) and Ru(III). Certain ions with ligands such as 4,4'-bipyridine or nonconjugated dicyano species would have degenerate ground states if they were symmetrical and are thus distorted. In other ions the odd electron will be located in a coupled orbital and there will be less of a tendency toward distortion. The original Creutz and Taube pyrazine bridged complex is of this type.