The ruthenium(II) organometallic and coordination complexes of type Ru(X)(Y)(CO)
2(
i-Pr-DAB) (
i-Pr-DAB = 1,4-diisopropyl-1,4-diaza-1,3-butadiene; X, Y = Cl, Br, I, Me, Et,
i-Pr,
neo-Pe, Ph
3Sn, Me
3Sn, Ph
3Pb, Ph
3Ge, Mn(CO)
5, RuCp(CO)
2) have been analyzed bymeans of
99Ru NMR spectroscopy. The
99Ru NMR resonances for these compounds aregenerally sharp, allowing scalar couplings to group 14 nuclei to be observed. Correlationtimes
c have been determined from NOE factors and
13C
T1 values for selected compoundsand were found to parallel the molecular weight of the compounds studied. The M-Ru-M'and M-Ru-X complexes have
99Ru NMR resonances in distinct chemical shift regions. Inthe series M-Ru-M' a correlation between the inverse of the crystal field splitting energy
E and
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(
99Ru) exists. These complexes have a HOMO which is delocalized over the M-Ru-M'
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system and a LUMO which has predominantly
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*-DAB character; therefore, (
E)
-1 isdominant in the paramagnetic shielding of the ruthenium nucleus. The difference in theobserved chemical shift regions of the M-Ru-M' and M-Ru-X compounds can be attributedto differences in d-orbital radius <
r-3>
d, which is in good agreement with previously performedDFT calculations. For the Ru(I)(R)(CO)
2(
i-Pr-DAB) complexes,
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(
99Ru) follows the same trendas for a series of iron compounds, indicating an increase of the Ru-C bond length in theseries Me < Et <
neo-Pe <
i-Pr. This finding emphasizes the power of transition-metal NMRspectroscopy in the structural analysis of transition-metal complexes. Furthermore,
99RuNMR provides a tool to identify and assign isomers in mixtures of Ru-polypyridyl complexes.The
99Ru NMR resonances of coordination isomers of various triazole-containing rutheniumcomplexes are found at different frequencies, which can be used to unambiguously identifycoordination isomers in mixtures by means of
99Ru NMR spectroscopy. The
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(
99Ru) value isfound to increase with increasing redox potential of the polypyridyl compounds.