Front Cover: Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Ruthenium‐Indane Complexes with Diphosphine Ligand (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 29/2024)

• Published in: European journal of inorganic chemistry 2024-10, Vol.27 (29), p.n/a
• Main Authors: Itazaki, Masumi, Kitani, Natsumi, Dobashi, Yukako, Okabayashi, Kento, Nakazawa, Hiroshi, Moriuchi, Toshiyuki
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1434-1948; 1099-0682
• DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202482901

The Front Cover shows the molecular structures of two ruthenium–indane complexes: one is a binuclear Ru complex bridged by 1,2‐bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane (dppe) ligand and the other is a mononuclear chelating 1,3‐bis(diphenylphosphino)propane (dppp) complex. For the mononuclear complex, the Ru−P (P trans to In) bond distance (2.4076(11) Å) is shorter than the Ru−P (P trans to CO) one (2.4227(11) Å). It is known that both InCl3 and CO exhibit electron‐withdrawing properties, but no comparison of their electron‐withdrawing strengths has been reported. This result is the first to show that the InCl3 ligand withdraws electron density from Ru more strongly than the CO ligand. In addition, the mononuclear Ru−In complexes exhibit catalytic activity for the double hydrosilylation of organonitriles. More information can be found in the Research Article by M. Itazaki and co‐workers.