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Tetrahedral Co-ordination in Ni(II)

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LINGAFELTER1 has suggested that the occurrence of blue-coloured Ni en2(NCS)2 and Ni en(H2O)4 (NO3)2 for which X-ray evidence gives 6 co-ordination for the nickel atom contradicts the criteria for identifying tetrahedrally co-ordinated Ni(II) suggested in my earlier communication of the same title2, with the implication that these criteria are invalid.

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  1. L. I. KATZIN: Exchange Fellow from Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois.

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KATZIN, L. Tetrahedral Co-ordination in Ni(II). Nature 183, 1672–1673 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831672b0

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