Protonated open and half-open ruthenocenes exhibiting agostic interactions with C-H bond rupture involved in the most facile dynamic process

Cox, David and Roulet, Raymond (1989) Protonated open and half-open ruthenocenes exhibiting agostic interactions with C-H bond rupture involved in the most facile dynamic process. Chemical Communications (3). pp. 175-177. ISSN 1359-7345

Abstract

The cations [Ru(η5-C7H11)2H]+(1), [Ru(η5-C5H5)(η5-C7H11)H]+(2), and [Ru(η5-C7H11)H]+(3) have provided quantitative evidence for the existence of a class of complexes in which rupture of the C–H component of a C–H–M agostic interaction is involved in the lowest energy fluxional processes.