Bis(2,2′-bipyridine)(5-isothiocyanato-1,10-phenanthroline)ruthenium(II) bis(hexafluoridophosphate) acetonitrile solvate

The title compound, [Ru(C10H8N2)2(C13H7N3S)](PF6)2·CH3CN, was synthesized by the reaction of thiophosgene and bis(2,2′-bipyridine)(1,10-phenanthrolin-5-amine)ruthenium(II) bis(hexafluoridophosphate). The RuII atom adopts a slightly distorted octahedral RuN6 coordinaton formed by four N atoms of two bipyridine ligands and by two N atoms of the 1,10-phenantroline ligand. The isothiocyanate group is almost linear, with an N—C—S angle of 174.4 (6)°. Two of the three hexafluoridophosphate counter-anions are located on inversion centres