Anionic metal hydride catalysts. 1. Synthesis of potassium hydrido (phosphine) ruthenate complexes

GP Pez, RA Grey, J Corsi

Index: Pez, Guido P.; Grey, Roger A.; Corsi, Jeff Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981 , vol. 103, # 25 p. 7528 - 7535

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Abstract

K2+[(Ph3P) 3 (Ph2P) R~ 2H4] 2-. 2C6H1403 (2) were prepared for study as possible homogeneous catalysts for the catalytic hydrogenation of polar organic substrates. Complex 1 was prepared by reaction of (Ph3P), RuHCI. C6H5CH3 (1 mol) with potassium naphthalene (2 mol) at-80 to-1 11 OC in tetrahydrofuran (THF). It was isolated as a yellow crystalline solid from solutions in diethyl ether and in the presence of excess naphthalene ...