Hill, Ethan A;Zhao, Norman;Filatov, Alexander S;Anderson, John S;
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)2020
187
hill2020nickeliimethylchemical
Abstract
We report four-coordinate nickel(ii)-methyl complexes of tris-carbene borate ligands which adopt rare seesaw geometries. Experimental and computational results suggest the structural distortion from threefold symmetry results from a combination of electronic stabilization of the singlet state, strong field donors, and constrained angles from the chelating ligand.