Bifunctional EH activation offers a promising approach for the design of two-electron-reduction catalysts with late first-row metals, such as Ni. To this end, we have been pursuing H2 activation reactions at late-metal boratranes and herein describe a diphosphine-borane-supported Ni-(H2 ) complex, [((Ph) DPB(iPr) )Ni(H2 )], which has been characterized in solution. (1) H NMR spectroscopy confi...

The reaction of [Ni(L)]Cl(2)·2H(2)O (L = 3,14-dimethyl-2,6,13,17-tetraazatricyclo [14,4,0(1.18),0(7.12)]docosane) with trans-1,2-cyclopentanedicarboxylic acid (H(2)-cpdc) yields a 1D hydrogen-bonded infinite chain with formula [Ni(L)(H-cpdc(-))(2)] (1). This complex has been characterized by X-ray crystallography, spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. The crystal structure of 1 exhibits a distor...

The Fe-Ni-Pb-B alloy nanoparticles was prepared by a solid-solid chemical reaction of ferric trichloride, nickel chloride, lead acetate, and potassium borohydride powders at room temperature. The research results of the ICP and thermal analysis indicate that the resultants are composed of iron, nickel, lead, boron, and PVP, and the component of the alloy is connected with the mole ratio of pota...

The orientation relationships (ORs) that develop when Ag films are equilibrated on more than 200 different Ni substrate orientations distributed over the standard stereographic triangle have been determined by electron backscatter diffraction. Four different types of OR have been observed, including cube-on-cube, twin-related, oct-cube (that develops only on Ni(100)), as well as a family of mor...