The chemistry of pyridine thiols and related ligands,Part 6. The crystal and molecular structure of [1,3–bis(diphenylphosphino)-propane][bis(pyridine-2–thiolato)]ruthenium(II). A comparison with solution phase behaviour

Reaction of cis-RuCl2(dppp)2 with pyridine-2–thiol (HpyS) in the presence of Et3N in dry benzene replaces both the chloro groups and a diphosphine molecule to form Ru(dppp)(pyS)2 (1) dppp=Ph2P(CH2)3PPh2], whose crystal and molecular structure has been determined with the help of single crystal X-ray crystallography. The discrete molecules of (1) adopt a distorted octahedral structure containing chelating pyridine-2–thiolato and dppp ligands with trans-S, cis-N and cis-P atom dispositions. The important interatomic parameters are: Ru-S, 2.443(2), 2.339(2); Ru-N, 2.133(5), 2.129(5); Ru-P, 2.274(2), 2.279(2)Å; trans-bond angles, S-Ru-S, 153.89(6); N-Ru-P, 172.76(13), 163.51(14)°; bite angles: P-Ru-P, 90.71(6); N-Ru-S, 67.18(14), 67.72(14)°. The n.m.r. spectra (1H, 13C, 31P) of (1) are also reported in order to compare solution phase behaviour with the solid state structure. The 13C-n.m.r. spectrum of the complex shows the presence of non-equivalent phenyls in the Ph2P-moiety.