Ruthenium complexes containing aromatic thioamides

Reaction of aromatic thioamides, LH, withcis-[Ru(CO)2Cl2] yieldscis-[Ru(CO2)Cl2LH]. The complexes have been characterised by analytical, i.r., electronic and n.m.r. spectral and magnetic measurements. All the RuII diamagnetic complexes have been assigned distorted octahedral geometry.