The stoichiometry of the reaction is uncertain, one possibility being the following::6 RuCl3 + 33 CO + 18 CH3OH → 2 Ru3(CO)12 + 9 CO(OCH3)2 + 18 HCl==Reactions==The chemical properties of Ru3(CO)12 have been widely studied, and the cluster has been converted to hundreds of derivatives.