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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 3.
Published in final edited form as: Inorg Chem. 2012 Nov 9;51(23):12660–12668. doi: 10.1021/ic301204b

Table 3.

Solid angle data (G)a for selected alkyl-substituted tris(carbene)borate ligands in {NiNO}10 complexes.

Ligand Full ligand Truncated ligandb
HB(MeBz)3−c 36.9 37.0
HB(CyCH2Bz)3− 56.3 36.9
PhB(CyCH2Im)3−c 52.8 39.0
HB(tBuIm)3− 53.2 53.2
Tp* 37.0 37.0
PhB(CH2PPh2)3− 55.4 54.1
a

Solid angles expressed as percentage coverage of a sphere. The G values were calculated using a metal ligand distance of 2.28 Å.

b

Ligand was truncated at a radius of 4 Å from the metal center.

c

Average values for the four independent molecules in the asymmetric unit.