Inorg. Chem. Comm., 4, 237-240 (2001)

Cis-dichloro-bis-2-(2-pyridyl)-4-(methylcarboxy)quinolineruthenium(II): a novel ruthenium(II) tris-chelated building precursor

Abdiaziz A. Farah and William J. Pietro*

Department of Chemistry, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3

Synthesis, characterization and single crystal X-ray structure of cis-dichloro-bis-2-(2-pyridyl)-4-(methylcarboxy)quinolineruthenium(II), a versitile polypyridyl ruthenium(II) building precursor with additional two peripherally functionalizable sites, will be described