Nickel hydride bridging

The reaction of [Ni(ethene)3] with a hydride donor such as trialkyl(hydrido)-aluminate results in the formation of the dinuclear anionic complex [ Ni(eth-ene)2[2l 11 [22]. The nickel(O) centers in this complex are in a trigonal planar environment of two ethene molecules and a bridging hydride ion, with the ethene carbons in the plane of coordination. The two planes of coordination within the dinuclear complex are almost perpendicular to each other, and the Ni-H-Ni unit is significantly bent, with an angle of 125° and a Ni-Ni distance of 2.6 A [22],... 

An interesting aspect of the bridging hydride structure concerns the direction of the Jahn-Teller axis on nickel. With the hydride, there are five ligands around nickel and one of these are therefore forced to... 

The open site on iron in the [NiFe]-H2ase is oriented toward nickel, hence the cooperative effect for hydrogen uptake or production must involve the ability of nickel or its thiolate sulfur donor to assist iron in the formation of H-bonded species or bridging hydrides [63]. 

Nickel(O) reacts with the olefin to form a nickel(0)-olefin complex, which can also coordinate the alkyl aluminum compound via a multicenter bond between the nickel, the aluminum and the a carbon atom of the trialkylaluminum. In a concerted reaction the aluminum and the hydride are transferred to the olefin. In this mechanistic hypothesis the nickel thus mostly serves as a template to bring the olefin and the aluminum compound into close proximity. No free Al-H or Ni-H species is ever formed in the course of the reaction. The adduct of an amine-stabihzed dimethylaluminum hydride and (cyclododecatriene)nickel, whose structure was determined by X-ray crystallography, was considered to serve as a model for this type of mechanism since it shows the hydride bridging the aluminum and alkene-coordinated nickel center [31]. 

The redox condensation shown in Eq. (9) gives rise to the dianion [Fe3Ni(CO)12]2 and it has also been possible to isolate salts of the corresponding hydride, [Fe3Ni(CO)12H]- (30.5 r). The presence of infrared absorptions due to bridging carbonyls and the complexity of the infrared spectrum indicate a structure similar to Co4(CO)i2 with the nickel in the basal plane171). 

Similarly, treatment of the nickel-ruthenium complex 62 with a variety of donors (CO, CNCy, NCfBu, PPh3) affords the doubly bridged complexes 78-81 (Scheme 7), wherein the donor binds to ruthenium. However, upon treatment with PhC=CH, only one carbonyl adopts a bridging mode, the second bridge being provided by a r2 vinylidene (63), derived from a 1,2-hydride shift within the PhC=CH ligand. 

Binding energy, pentacarbonyliron, 6, 3 Binuclear complexes bis-Cp titanium halides, 4, 522 with Ni-M and Ni-C cr-bonds heterometallic clusters, 8, 115 homometallic clusters, 8, 111 Binuclear dicarbonyl(cyclopentadienyl)hydridoiron complexes, with rand C5 ligands, 6, 178 Binuclear iridium hydrides, characteristics, 7, 410 Binuclear monoindenyl complexes, with Ti(IV), 4, 397 Binuclear nickel(I) carbonyl complexes, characteristics, 8, 13 Binuclear osmium compounds, with hydrocarbon bridges without M-M bonds, 6, 619... 

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