Rg. Xiong et al., THE SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF TRANS-BIS-(4-METHYLPYRIDINE)BIS(8-QUINOLINOLATO-N (1),O-8)NICKEL(II)MONOHYDRATE, Transition metal chemistry, 20(5), 1995, pp. 498-500
The title complex was prepared by the reaction of bis(8-quinolinolato-
N-1,O-8)nickel(II) with 4-methylpyridine. The X-ray crystal structure
of the complex showed it to have a slightly distorted octahedral confi
guration, in which the central Ni atom is coordinated by two oxygen an
d two nitrogen atoms from two 8-quinolinol ligands forming the equator
ial plane and two apical 4-methylpyridine nitrogen atoms.