Treatment of RuCl
2(
2-Ph
2PCH
2CH
2OCH
3)
2 with various chelating diamines permittedthe isolation of the corresponding RuCl
2(
1-Ph
2PCH
2CH
2OCH
3)
2(diamine) complexes in highyield (diamine = 1,2-diaminoethane, 1,2-diaminopropane, 1,3-diaminopropane, 1,2-phenylenediamine, 1,8-diaminonaphthalene, 2,2'-bipyridine, 1,10-phenanthroline). In solution,all complexes prefer the
trans-chloro
cis-phosphine arrangement, as deduced by NMRspectroscopy. X-ray studies showed that in the solid state all three possible isomers of theoctahedral RuCl
2P
2(diamine) complexes are present. The reaction of the RuCl
2(
1-Ph
2PCH
2CH
2OCH
3)
2(diamine) complexes with 1 equiv of AgSbF
6, AgBF
4, or TlPF
6 leads to theabstraction of one chloride by simultaneously coordinating one ether oxygen to rutheniumand forming monocationic [RuCl(
1-Ph
2PCH
2CH
2OCH
3)(
2-Ph
2PCH
2CH
2OCH
3)(diamine)]
+compounds. If a large excess of silver or thallium salt is used, the dichloro complexes areconverted to the [Ru(
2-Ph
2PCH
2CH
2OCH
3)
2(diamine)]
2+ dications. In the case of 1,2-phenylendiamine as coligand, the corresponding dication is only observed in traces. NMRspectroscopic investigations and X-ray structural analyses confirm the
1 and
2 coordinationof the ether-phosphine ligands in the corresponding mono- and dicationic ruthenium(II)complexes.