Nickel chlorohydridobis

Chlorohydridobis(tricyclohexylphosphine)nickel is a yellow-brown solid. It is thermally stable at ambient temperature but reacts with air. It is very soluble in benzene, tetrahydrofuran, and dichloromethane and is soluble in diethyl ether and petroleum ether. Carbon tetrachloride, carbon disulfide, and chloroform decompose the complex. The infrared spectrum shows a sharp v(Ni—H) band at 1916 cm-1 (KBr disk and Nujol mull). The high-field H nmr spectrum in benzene solution has a triplet (1 2 1) at t34.6 (TMS) with JpH 73.5 Hz. The splitting is caused by the coupling of the hydride proton with two equivalent 31P nuclei. This is consistent with a trans square-planar configuration. 

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