Organometallic Chemistry

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Catching Nickel’s Most Elusive Intermediate — and Proving It With Heavy Oxygen
A Taiwanese team isolated and crystallised the first terminal nickel–oxygen complex on an unsymmetrical β-diketiminate ligand (Ni–O 1.750 Å), confirming the bond by ¹⁸O isotope-labelled resonance Raman on the MRID (532 nm).
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9 Ligands Reveal How Tricopper(I) Clusters Bond
Swapping one ortho-substituent shifted Cu···Cu distances from 2.75 Å (bonded) to 3.59 Å (no interaction) across a nine-ligand tricopper(I) series — proof that sterics, not electronics, control these cuprophilic interactions.

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Catching Nickel’s Most Elusive Intermediate — and Proving It With Heavy Oxygen