Preparation and Characterization of A New Dinuclear Ruthenium Complex with BDPX Ligand and Its Catalytic Hydrogenation Reactions for Cinnamaldehyde

Introduction Recently, dinuclear Ru complexes containing chelating bidentate phosphines (either chiral or non-chiral) have attracted more and more attention owing to their effective ability for catalytic hydrogenation of olefins and carbonyl groups under mild conditions. A great number of dinuclear Ru complexes with bidentate phosphines have been obtained.1-10 In 1985 Ikariya et al.1 prepared a chiral binuclear ruthenium complex [Ru2Cl4(BINAP)2]NEt3 by the reaction of (S)-BINAP with [R…