Crystal structure of [(C6H4)P][Ni(B9C2H11)2]•CCl4

A new compound containing the tetraphenylphosphonium cation and the nickel(III) bisdicarbollyl anion, [(C6H5)(4)P][Ni(B9C2H11)(2)]center dot CCl4, was synthesized and investigated by XRD at room temperature (295 K). Crystal data: C29H42B18PCl4Ni, M=816.69, monoclinic, space group P2/c; unit cell parameters a = 13.5873(6) angstrom, b = 7.1475(2) angstrom, c = 20.7829(8) angstrom, beta = 94.4595(13)degrees, V = 2012.2(2) angstrom(3), Z = 2, d(calc) = 1.348 g/cm(3). The structure was solved by direct and Fourier methods and refined by the full-matrix least squares method in an anisotropic (isotropic for H) approximation to the final R-1 = 0.0466 for 3055 I-hkl >= 2 sigma(I) of 23,655 reflections collected and 5618 independent I-hkl (Bruker X8 APEX diffractometer lambda MoK alpha).