Reactions of Ni(NO)I with pyrazolyl gallate ligands: crystal and molecular structure of [Me2Ga(N2C5H7)(OCH2CH 2NMe2)]Ni(NO)
Ni(NO)I reacts readily with pyrazolyl gallate ligands Na+L− (where L = MeGa(N2C3H3)3, MeGa(N2C5H7)3, and [Me2Ga(N2C5H7)(OCH2CH2NMe2)]) to yield four-coordinate nickel nitrosyl complexes, LNi(NO). In addition, the compound [Me2Ga(N2-C5H7)(OCH2CH2 NMe2)]Ni(N2C5H7)2Ni(NO) has been isolated from one reaction sequence. 1H nmr data show [Me2Ga(N2C5H7)(OCH2CH2NMe2)]Ni(NO) to be stereochemically non-rigid at room temperature in solution. Crystals of [dimethyl(N,N-dimethylethanol-amino)(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)gallato(N(2),N(3),O)] nitrosylnickel(I) are monoclinic, a = 9.119(1), b = 13.900(2), c = 14.284(2) Å, β = 107.96(1)°, Z = 4, space group P21/c. The structure was solved by Patterson and Fourier syntheses and was refined by full-matrix leastsquares procedures to R = 0.025 and Rw = 0.032 for 1828 reflections with I ≥ 3σ(I). The coordination about the nickel atom is severely distorted tetrahedral with angles at nickel ranging from 84.4(1) to 133.5(1)°. The nitrosyl group is coordinated in a non-linear fashion with Ni—N—O = 162.3(4)°, Ni—N = 1.632(4) and N—O = 1.147(4) Å. Other important bond lengths (corrected for libration) are: Ni—O, 2.045(2), Ni—N(pyrazolyl), 1.989(3), Ni—N(amino), 2.071(3), Ga—O, 1.922(2), Ga—N, 1.998(3), and Ga—C, two at 1.971(6) Å.