Herein, novel ruthenium(III) complexes with hydroxybenzophenones with the general formula cis-[RuCl2(HB)(dppb)] were obtained where HB = 2-hydroxy-4-(octyloxy)benzophenone (C1), 2-hydroxy-4-metoxybenzophenone (C2), 2,2'-dihydroxy-4,4'-dimethoxybenzophenone (C3), 2,2′-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone (C4), 2,4-dihydroxybenzophenone (C5), 2,4,4'-trihydroxybenzophenone (C6), and dppb...