{2,6-Bis[(di-tert-butyl-phosphino)-methyl]-phenyl}chloridonickel(II)

Brian J Boro; Diane A Dickie; Karen I Goldberg; Richard A Kemp

doi:10.1107/S1600536808029814

{2,6-Bis[(di-tert-butyl-phosphino)-methyl]-phenyl}chloridonickel(II)

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2008 Sep 20;64(Pt 10):m1304. doi: 10.1107/S1600536808029814.

Authors

Brian J Boro, Diane A Dickie, Karen I Goldberg, Richard A Kemp

Abstract

In the title compound, [Ni(C(24)H(43)P(2))Cl], the Ni atom adopts a distorted square-planar geometry, with the P atoms of the 2,6-bis-[(di-tert-butyl-phosphino)meth-yl]phenyl ligand trans to one another. The P-Ni-P plane is twisted out of the plane of the aromatic ring by 21.97 (6)°.