The Remarkable Reactivity of High Oxidation State Ruthenium and Osmium Polypyrid

In an extraordinary series of papers for their time, in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, the Australian coordination chemist, Frances P. Dwyer, and a series of very talented collaborators including Alan Sargeson, David Buckingham, Harold Goodwin, and Bryce Bosnich developed the synthetic chemistry of polypyridyl complexes of ruthenium and osmium.

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