“…Although, a π-bonding interaction between Ru and NO still exists, that is, HOMO-3 and HOMO-4 [see Table 4 and an orbital representation in Figure 5 (left)], this RuϪNϪO bending induces a considerable ion has a considerable population and its composition is predominant on NO π* orbitals. As shown in Table 2, RuϪNO and NϪO bond lengthening is usual as the same is also observed for [Ru(CN) 5 [44] trans-[Ru(NH 3 ) 4 (SO 2 )(Cl)]Cl, [45,46] trans-[Ru(NH 3 ) 4 (SO 4 )(L)]Cl [47] and trans-[Ru(NH 3 ) 4 (L)(NO)](BF 4 ) 3 [21,22] were prepared as described previously. ESR spectra were recorded in a Bruker ESP 300 E spectrophotometer at the temperature of liquid nitrogen.…”