Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies on the Reaction of DL-Methionine with [(H₂O)(tap)₂RuORu(tap)₂(H₂O)]²⁺ in Aqueous Medium at Physiological pH

Table 1

10³𝑘_1(obs) values for different ligand concentrations at different temperatures. [Complex]=1×10⁻⁴moldm⁻³, pH = 7.4, ionic strength =0.1moldm⁻³NaClO₄.

10^3 [ligand] (moldm^−3)	Temperature (^∘C)
	45	50	55	60
2.0	0.70	0.87	1.02	1.18
3.0	1.0	1.22	1.4	1.55
4.0	1.23	1.45	1.62	1.90
5.0	1.40	1.65	2.0	2.08
10.0	1.67	2.0	2.25	2.63