TY - JOUR A1 - Ernst, Sylvia A1 - Kasack, Volker A1 - Bessenbacher, Christian A1 - Kaim, Wolfgang T1 - Ein- und zweikernige Bis(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium-Komplexe mit N,O-Modelliganden für Dehydrogenase-Cofaktoren T1 - Mono- and binuclear bis(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium complexes with N,O-ligands modelling dehydrogenase cofactors T2 - Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, B N2 - Coordination of substitutionally inert [Ru(bpy)2]2+ fragments (bpy: 2,2′-bipyridine) to the a-iminoketone chelate ligands pyrazine-2-dimethylcarboxamide (4) and 4,7-phenanthroline-5,6-dione (5) yields the complexes [(N,O-4)Ru(bpy)2]2⊕, [(O,O′-5⊖)Ru(bpy)2]⊕ and {(N,O; N′,O′-5)[Ru(bpy)2]2}4⊕ which exhibit a rich electrochemistry. The distinctly different electronic structures of the complexes are evident from the ESR behaviour of paramagnetic intermediates: N.O-coordinated complexes have the unpaired electron residing in the ligand n system upon reduction, albeit with g<2 for the binuclear complex of 5. The paramagnetic O,O′-coordinated mononuclear complex with 5 has its redox potentials shifted positively relative to that of the binuclear system. These results are particularly noteworthy because 4 and 5 can be regarded as model compounds for the flavin and methoxatin dehydrogenase cofactors. KW - Dehydrogenase Cofactors KW - Ruthenium Complexes KW - Oxidation States KW - ESR Spectra KW - α-Iminoketones Y1 - 2014 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/79983 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-799830 SN - 1865-7117 SN - 0932-0776 VL - 42.1987 IS - 4 SP - 425 EP - 430 PB - Verlag der Zeitschrift für Naturforschung CY - Tübingen ER -