Coordination Chemistry Reviews
219–221 (2001) 187–234
Monomeric and extended oxo-centered
triruthenium clusters
Henrique E. Toma *, Koiti Araki, Anamaria D.P. Alexiou,
Sofia Nikolaou, Sergio Dovidauskas
Instituto de Quı ´mica, Uniersidade de Sa ˜o Paulo, C. Postal 26077 CEP 05513 -970, Sa ˜o Paulo,
SP, Brazil
Received 20 September 2000; accepted 19 December 2000
Dedicated to Professor Alfred B. Lever on the occasion of his 65th birthday
Contents
Abstract .................................................... 188
1. Introduction ............................................... 188
2. Monomeric trinuclear clusters ..................................... 189
2.1 Synthetic aspects .......................................... 189
2.2 Structural aspects ......................................... 190
2.3 Kinetic behavior .......................................... 193
2.4 Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical behavior ..................... 194
2.5 Properties and catalytic activity ................................. 202
3. Ligand-bridged dimers ......................................... 202
4. Ligand-bridged trimeric clusters .................................... 206
5. Ligand-bridged tetrameric clusters ................................... 207
6. Ligand-bridged cyclic polymeric clusters ............................... 211
7. Mixed polynuclear clusters ....................................... 214
8. Polynuclear porphyrin – ruthenium clusters .............................. 219
8.1 Tetraelectronic dioxygen reduction by CoTCP films ..................... 226
8.2 Cytochrome P-450 catalytic activity of MnTCP ........................ 229
9. Final remarks .............................................. 230
Acknowledgements ............................................. 231
References .................................................. 231
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