A unique borohydride bridged dimer of Ni(I)

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The reaction of Ni(6-Mes)(PPh3)Br (6-Mes = bis(1,3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) with 2.5 equivalents of NaBH4 leads to formation of product characterised as {Ni(6-Mes)}2(mu-BH4)2 (2, Scheme 1).The product has been characterised by X-ray crystallography, but we were unable to elucidate the precise coordination modes of the two asymmetrically bound bridging borohydride ligands. Such information is vital in rationalising the likelihood of BH3 loss as a route to what would be a unique and possibly catalytically active Ni(I)-H species.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58450199
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58450199
Provenance
Creator Dr Hazel Sparkes; Dr Mary Mahon; Professor Michael Whittlesey; Dr Matthias Gutmann; Dr Ian Riddlestone
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-04-08T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-16T09:00:00Z