Abstract:
The cocondensation of nickel with a number of
unsaturated ligands was studied, as was the cocondensation
with a number of mixed ligand systems.
Enamines were found not to react with nickel while
acrylonitrile was polymerized.
In the mixed ligand syst.ems different products were
obtained than when the ligands were cocondensed individually.
Cocondensations of benzyl halide/allyl
halide mixtures gave unstable products that were not
observed when the halides were cocondensed individually.
The effect of Kao-Wool insulation on nickel/benzyl
halide cocondensations was found to be significant.
Kao-Wool caused the bulk of the benzyl halide to be polymeri
zed to a number of poly-benzylic species.
An alkali metal reactor was designed for the evaporation
of sodium and potassium atoms into cold solutions of
metal halide and an or ganic substrate. This apparatus
was used to synthesize Ni(P¢3 )3' but proved unsuccessful
for synthesizing a nickel-enamine compound.
