financially supported by the Swedish Research Council(2017-00935);the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation(KAW 2016.0072);the China Scholarship Council(CSC).
Isolation of RuⅢ-bda(17-electron specie)complex with an aqua ligand(2-electron donor)is challenging due to violation of the 18-electron rule.Although considerable efforts have been dedicated to mechanistic studies of...