Abstract
AbstractAdvancing the understanding of lithum nickelate complexes, here we report a family of homoleptic organonickelate complexes obtained by reacting Ni(COD)2and lithium aryl‐acetylides in the presence of the bidentate donor TMEDA. These compounds represent rare examples of low‐valent transition‐metals supported solely by organolithium ligands. Whilst the solid‐state structures indicate a hexagonal planar geometry around Ni0with Ni−Li bonds, bonding analysis via QTAIM, NCI, NBO and ELI methods reveals that the Ni−Li interactions are repulsive in nature, characterising these complexes as tri‐coordinated. London dispersion forces between TMEDA and the organic substituents on nickel are found to play a crucial role in the stabilisation and thus isolation of these complexes. Preliminary reactivity studies demonstrate that the homoleptic lithium nickelates undergo stoichiometric cross‐coupling with PhI to give dinickel clusters containing both anionic acetylide and neutral alkyne ligands.
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