Abstract
Completing a series of nickel-group 13 complexes, a coordinatively unsaturated nickel-boron complex and its derivatives with a H2, N2, or hydride ligand were synthesized and characterized. The toggling "on" of a Ni(0)-B(III) inverse-dative bond enabled the stabilization of a nickel-bound anionic hydride with a remarkably low thermodynamic hydricity of kcal mol-1 in THF. The flexible topology of the boron metalloligand confers both favorable hydrogen binding affinity and strong hydride donicity, albeit at the cost of high H2 basicity during deprotonation to form the hydride.
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