JOURNAL OF COORDINATION CHEMISTRY, cilt.64, sa.14, ss.2565-2572, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
A new chelating ruthenium complex was synthesized using an electron-rich olefin and [RuCl2(p-cymene)](2) and characterized structurally and spectroscopically. The structure of the complex was verified using X-ray crystallography. The complex displayed high activities in transfer hydrogenation.