High-valent nickel species are implicated as intermediates in industrially relevant chemical transformations and in the catalytic cycles of metalloenzymes. Although a small number of tetravalent NiX complexes have been crystallographically characterized, higher nickel valence states have not been identified. Here we report a stable, crystalline NiX complex, Ni(BeCp) (; cyclopentadienyl anion (Cp)), formed by the insertion of zerovalent nickel into three Be-Be bonds. This 16-electron species features an inverted ligand field, is diamagnetic, and exhibits symmetry, on account of the lifting of Ni 4-orbital degeneracy in this molecular geometry. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction and quantum chemical calculations both reveal a toroidal band of electron density perpendicular to the axis of the complex, which may be attributed to delocalized, multicenter aromatic NiBe bonding.
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