1Department of Chemistry, Kakatiya University, Warangal, India -506 009
2Centre for Pharmaceutical Science, Institute of Science and Technology, JNTU, Hyderabad, India
3Department of Chemistry, Satavahana University, Karimnagar, India-505 001
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ravichemku@rediffmail.com
Online published on 21 September, 2013.
The reaction of RhCl3 with 1,10-phenanthroline followed by a carboxyl functionalized tertiaryphosphine in refluxing ethanol led to serendipitous formation of a first neutral mononuclear Rh(II) complex of 1,10-phenanthroline as [Rh(II)Cl2(1,10-phen)2] without incorporating the phosphine. This incident was evidenced by elemental analysis, single crystal X-ray diffraction, EPR and Mass spectroscopic studies.
Rhodium, Tertiary phosphines, 1,10-phenanthroline, Reduction
