(η(6)-Benzene)(carbonato-κ(2) O,O′)[di­cyclohex­yl(naphthalen-1-ylmeth­yl)phosphane-κP]ruthenium(II) chloro­form tris­olvate

The title compound, [Ru(CO(3))(η(6)-C(6)H(6)){(C(6)H(11))(2)P(CH(2)C(10)H(7))}]·3CHCl(3), was synthesized by carbonation of [RuCl(2)(η(6)-C(6)H(6)){(C(6)H(11))(2)P(CH(2)C(10)H(7))}] with NaHCO(3) in methanol at room temperature. The Ru(II) atom is surrounded by a benzene ligand, a chelating carbonate group and a phosphane ligand in a piano-stool configuration. The crystal packing is consolidated by C—H⋯O and C—H⋯Cl hydrogen-bonding inter­actions between adjacent metal complexes and between the complexes and the solvent mol­ecules. The asymmetric unit contains one metal complex and three chloro­form solvent mol­ecules of which only one was modelled. The estimated diffraction contributions of the other two strongly disordered chloro­form solvent mol­ecules were substracted from the observed diffraction data using the SQUEEZE procedure in PLATON [Spek (2009 ▶). Acta Cryst. D65, 148–155].