Diminishing accessibility of electrophilic nickel(ii) centres due to incorporation of a methylene spacer in the pendant side arm of a series of heterotrinuclear nickel(ii)/sodium complexes: a DFT study using a homodesmotic equation

Abstract

The ethoxy groups have a dual effect in hindering the attack of the pseudo-halides on the nickel(ii) centre and also in stabilizing the complex by intra-molecular interactions.