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Tetra-ethyl-ammonium tris-(thio-cyanato-κN)[tris-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl-κN(2))methane]-nickelate(II)
Ganna Lyubartseva1, Sean Parkin, Uma Prasad Mallik
1Department of Chemistry and Physics, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, AR 71753, USA. GannaLyubartseva@saumag.edu
Abstract:
The title salt, (C₈H₂₀N)[Ni(NCS)₃(C₁₀H₁₀N₆)], consists of a tetra-ethyl-ammonium cation and an anion comprising an octa-hedral Ni(II) atom surrounded by three N atoms from a tripodal tris-(pyrazol-1-yl)methane ligand, and three thio-cyanate ligands, each bound at the N-atom end. The ligand Ni-N distances range from 2.097 (2) to 2.127 (2) Å for the tripodal ligand and from 2.045 (2) to 2.075 (2) Å for the thio-cyanate ligands. The dihedral angles between the three pyrazole rings are 59.03 (12), 53.09 (10) and 67.90 (10)°.
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