
%0 Journal Article
%A Degeest, DJ 
%A Steel, PJ 
%T Cyclometallated Compounds. IX. Reactions of 2-Benzoylpyridine With Rhodium(III) Trichloride
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1995/09/01
%V 48
%N 9
%P 1573-1585
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9951573
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9951573 
%X X-Ray crystallography and n.m.r. spectroscopy have been used to study the products of reactions between rhodium(III) trichloride and 2-benzoylpyridine under various reaction conditions. X-Ray crystal structures have shown that the initial product of reaction in refluxing ethanol is a centrosymmetric isomer, as previously proposed, but that this undergoes aqueous hydrolysis to a C2-symmetric isomer, rather than the previously proposed C2v isomer. Reaction in refluxing 2-methoxyethanol produces an unusual complex with one C-N cyclometallated ligand and one N-O coordinated ligand. In Me2SO, the non-cyclometallated ligand of this latter compound undergoes solvolysis to produce a complex containing two Me2SO molecules, one coordinated through oxygen and the other through sulfur. The X-ray crystal structure of this compound is also reported. 
