Catalytic Activity of bis-Phosphine Ruthenium(II)-Arene Compounds

Abstract

This overview presents recent work on the coordination chemistry and catalytic activity of bis-phosphine ruthenium(II)-arene complexes, [RuCl(PPh3)(PR3)(?6-arene)]+, carried out in the Laboratory of Organometallic and Medicinal Chemistry at the EPFL.

Keywords

• Arene ligands
• Hydrogenation catalysis
• Mechanism
• Phosphine ligands
• Ruthenium