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Hong Yang1, Yanxia Zhao1, Bin Liu1
1Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China. yangxiaojuan@nwu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Reaction of the Ni-Ni-bonded compound [(NiIL˙-)2] (1, L = [(2,6-iPr2C6H3)NC(Me)]2) with various 1,2-diketones afforded a series of heteroleptic complexes: [LNi(PhC(O)-C(O)Ph)] (2), [LNi(PhC(O)-C(O)Me)] (3), [LNi(3,5-tBu2C6H2O2)] (4), and [(LNi){μ-η2,η2-(MeC(O)-C(O)Me)}(NiL)] (5). Furthermore, the complex [Na(Et2O)][LNi{PhC(O)-C(O)Ph}] (6) was obtained by the reduction of 2 with 1.0 equiv. of Na metal. These complexes, which contain three potential redox-active centers, nickel and both α-diimine and 1,2-diketone ligands, were characterized by X-ray crystallography, NMR, EPR, and UV-vis-NIR spectra, magnetic susceptibility measurements, and DFT computations to elucidate their electronic structures.
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