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COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS
Volume 226, Issue 1-2, Pages 211-218Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-8545(01)00434-9
Keywords
carbon dioxide; ruthenium; reduction of CO2; crystal structure; carbonyl complex; metal-carbon stretching vibration
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A series of [Ru(bPY)(2)(CO)L](n+) (L = CO2, C(O)OH, CO, CHO, CH2OH, CH3, and C(O)CH3; n = 0, 1, 2) were prepared and their molecular structures determined by X-ray analyses. These complexes are reasonable models of reaction intermediates in the multi-electron reduction of CO2 catalyzed by metal complexes, since reductive cleavage of the Ru-L bonds of the complexes in protic media affords HCOOH, CO, HCHO, CH3OH, and CH4 as two-, four-, six- and eight-electron reduction products Of CO2, Thermodynamically, the free energy required in the reduction of CO, progressively decreases with an increase of the number of electrons participating in the reduction of CO2 The Ru-L bond character of the series of [Ru(bPY)(2)(CO)L](n+) was assessed by the nu(Ru-L) bands and the Ru-L bond distances from the viewpoint of elucidation of a correlation between free energy changes in the multi-electron reduction of CO2 catalyzed by metal complexes and the metal-carbon bond strength of each intermediate. The ruthenium-carbon bond distance of [Ru(bPY)(2)(CO)L](n+) I largely depends on the hybrid orbital of the carbon atom bonded to ruthenium and lengthens in the order Ru-C-sp < Ru-C-sp2 < Ru-C-sp3. An unusual shift of the nu(Ru-L) bands to higher wavenumber with decrease of the Ru-L bond distances was discussed in terms of sigma- and pi-character of the ruthenium-carbon bonds. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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