{2,6-Bis[(2,6-diisopropylphosphanyl)oxy]-4-fluorophenyl-κ3P,C1,P′}(1H-pyrazole-κN2)nickel(II) hexafluorophosphate

The title compound, [Ni(C18H30FO2P2)(C3H4N2)]PF6, was prepared by halide abstraction with TlPF6 in the presence of CH3CN in CDCl3 from the respective neutral pincer chlorido analogue followed by addition of pyrazole. The PO—C—OP pincer ligand acts in typical trans-P2 tridentate fashion to generate a distorted square-planar nickel structure. The Ni—N(pyrazole) distance is 1.925 (2) Å and the plane of the pyrazole ligand is rotated 56.2 (1)° relative to the approximate square plane surrounding the NiII center in which the pyrazole is bound to the NiII atom through its sp2-hybridized N atom. This Ni—N distance is similar to bond lengths in the other reported NiII pincer-ligand square-planar pyrazole complex structures; however, its dihedral angle is significantly larger than any of those for the latter set of pyrazole complexes