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Communication
Dalton Trans., 2008, 433 – 436, DOI: 10.1039/b714274a
The preparation and characterisation of ruthenium cyanovinylidene complexes
Neil J. Brown, Prisca K. Eckert, Mark A. Fox, Dmitri S. Yufit, Judith A. K. Howard and Paul J. Low
Reactions of half-sandwich ruthenium metal acetylide complexes with 1-cyano-4-dimethylaminopyridinium salts afford complexes containing mono- or di-cyanovinylidene ligands; the procedure can be adapted to permit the simple synthesis of a cyanoacetylide complex, via the in situ deprotonation of a primary cyanovinylidene complex.
