Abstract The ligand exchange on nonamethylimidodiphosphoramide (NIPA) complexes is found to be very slow comparatively to analogous monodentate ligands; the rates determined by 1H or 31P NMR spectroscopy are: k(25°C)=4.3 × 10-2 s-1; 31.6 s-1 • M-1; 3.7 × 104 S-1 • M-1 and 1.35 × 104 s-1 · M-1 for Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+ and Li+ cations respectively. For the Al3+, Ga3+, In3+ and Be2+ ions no exchange could be detected by 1H NMR spectroscopy up to 120 °C, indicating rates lower than about 10-3 s-1
