The title compound, tetrapotassium heptanickel hexa-arsenate, has a three-d
imensional open anionic framework built up from AsO4 tetrahedra and NiO6 oc
tahedra sharing corners and edges. They delimit parallel tunnels, running a
lone the a direction, where the K+ ions reside. This centrosymmetric framew
ork appears to be similar to that of Ng(4)Ni(7)(PO4)(6) which is claimed to
be noncentrosymmetric.