Acta Cryst. (2008). E64, m1454  [ doi:10.1107/S1600536808034211 ]

Tricarbonylbis(tricyclohexylphosphine-P)ruthenium(0) toluene solvate

A. Nader, H. Görls and W. Imhof

Abstract: The title compound, [Ru(C₁₈H₃₃P)₂(CO)₃]·C₇H₈, shows a distorted trigonal-bipyramdial coordination around the central Ru atom, with the two phosphine ligands occupying the axial positions. Two toluene molecules per asymmetric unit with site-occupation factors of 0.5 are observed. One of them forces two of the CO ligands to enclose a wider C-Ru-C bond angle [127.5 (3)°] than in the solvent-free crystal structure of [Ru(PCy₃)₂(CO)₃] (Cy is cyclohexyl).

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