Chemistry Letters, Vol.36, No.9, 1116-1117, 2007
A novel ruthenium-quinonoid complex. structural, spectroscopic, and electrochemical characterization of ruthenium(II) bis(2,2'-bipyridine) chloranilate
[Ru(bpy)(2)(CA)]center dot EtOH (1) (CA(2-) = chloranilate) has been characterized by X-ray diffractometry, electrochemistry, UV-vis, IR, and Raman spectroscopy. Spectroscopic and theoretical characterization reveal that the chloranilate ligand allows for the fine-tuning of the electronic property of 1.