A Nickel(II) Compound with a Tetradentate Diamine-Diimine Ligand, (2,4,6,9,11-Pentamethyl-5,8-diazadodeca-4,8-diene-2,11-diamine)nickel(II) Tetrachlorozincate

The title compound, [Ni(C₁₅H₃₂N₄)][ZnCl₄], has a tetradentate diamine-diimine ligand in a tetrahedrally twisted square-planar coordination to singlet ground state nickel(II) with a mean Ni-N distance of 1.909 (3) Å. The cation has approximate mirror symmetry, apart from the axially oriented C6 methyl substituent.

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