The authors would like to thank Fundaci6n Andes for the purchase of the single-crystal diffractometer currently operating at the Universidad de Chile. JLK and DC acknowledge financial support from FONDECYT, grants 2930010 and 91/0556, respectively. JLK is grateful to Universidad of Atacama for a graduate fellowship. H10NO2S)2(r/6-C9HI2)2]C12.4H20, contains tridentate anionic amino acid ligands, where the S atoms adopt bridging positions between the two Ru atoms resulting in a near planar Ru--SmRu--S ring. The coordination at each Ru atom is completed by an amino N atom of the chelating ligand and the r/6-bonded mesitylene ring.Lists of structure factors, anisotropic displacement parameters, Hatom coordinates, complete geometry, including torsion angles and contact distances, have been deposited with the IUCr (Reference: BK1032). Copies may be obtained through The Managing Editor, International Union of Crystallography, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH 1 2HU, England.
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CommentThe determination of the structure of the title compound (1) was undertaken as part of a study of organometallic complexes with biologically important ligands (Carter, Davies, Fawcett & Russell, 1993 Compound (1) is analogous to the r/6-benzeneruthenium(II)-l-penicillamine complex (2) reported by Sheldrick & Heeb (1989), the most significant difference being that compound (1) has four water molecules associated with each dimeric cation, where only one was found for (2). The central four-membered Ru--S--Ru--S ring, while essentially planar ( Fig. 1) with deviations from the best least-squares plane of -0.15 for Ru (1) excluded from the refinement. However, the arrangement of the O atoms of the water molecules is consistent with a continuous hydrogen-bonded chain with O...O distances in the range 2.768-2.979 A. The threedimensional hydrogen-bonded network is completed by contacts between the atoms 0(5) and 0(6) of the water molecules and the carbonyl atoms 0(2) (2.825 ~,) and 0(3) (2.798/~), respectively. 0(4) = .= CI(1) .~O (7) C (7)
ExperimentalThe complex was prepared by refluxing a 2:2:1 mixture of Dpenicillamine, sodium methoxide and [(r/6-C6H3Me3)RuC12]2 in a 50:50 methanol/water solutio...