Direct observation of the oxidative addition of the aryl carbon-oxygen bond to a ruthenium complex and consideration of the relative reactivity between aryl carbon-oxygen and aryl carbon-hydrogen bonds
When RuH2(CO)(PPh3)3 was reacted with 2,2-dimethyl-1-(2-p-tolylphenyl)propan-1-one (2), the ruthenium-aryloxy complex 3 was obtained in 76% yield. The structure of this complex was determined from 1H and 31P NMR