Facile Synthesis and Molecular Structure of [Ni(PPh2NHPh)4]

Facile Synthesis and Molecular Structure of [Ni(PPh2NHPh)4] Facile Synthesis and Molecular Structure of [Ni(PPh2NHPh)4] Olaf KuÈ hl, Peter C. Junk1), and Evamarie Hey-Hawkins* Leipzig, Institut fuÈ r Anorganische Chemie der UniversitaÈ t Leipzig Received March 13th, 2000. Professor Ulrich MuÈ ller on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday Abstract. NiCl2 ´ 6 H2O readily reacts with PPh2NHPh in the presence of zinc dust to yield the homoleptic nickel(0) tetra- kis-phosphine complex [Ni(PPh2NHPh