Homoleptic ruthenium(III) chalcogenolates: a single precursor to metal chalcogenide nanoparticles catalyst

Sharon Lai-Fung Chan; Kam-Hung Low; Gary Kwok-Ming So; Stephen Sin-Yin Chui; Chi-Ming Che

doi:10.1039/c1cc12422f

Homoleptic ruthenium(III) chalcogenolates: a single precursor to metal chalcogenide nanoparticles catalyst

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Aug 21;47(31):8808-10. doi: 10.1039/c1cc12422f. Epub 2011 Jul 7.

Authors

Sharon Lai-Fung Chan¹, Kam-Hung Low, Gary Kwok-Ming So, Stephen Sin-Yin Chui, Chi-Ming Che

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, and Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China.

PMID: 21735022
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc12422f

Abstract

Eight homoleptic metal(III) arylchalcogenolate polymers [M(EPh-p-X)(3)](n) (M = Ru, Cr, and Mo) were characterized by PXRD. Structural solution of [Ru(SPh-p-tBu)(3)](n)1 was achieved by Rietveld refinement of the PXRD data. Pyrolysis of [Ru(SePh)(3)](n)4 produced nanostructured RuSe(2), which selectively catalyzed the reduction of nitro compounds in the presence of other functionalities.