The peer-reviewed version of Nana and Aimee’s study on shelf-stable bis(perfluoroaryl)nickel(II) complexes is now published in Organometallics! In this work, the team introduces two new bench-stable Ni(II) precatalysts, Ni(C₆F₅)₂(NCPh)₂ and [NBu₄]₂[{Ni(C₆F₅)₂(μ-OH)₂}₂], that combine exceptional stability and broad solubility with operational simplicity. Upon activation, the complexes cleanly release inert decafluorobiphenyl as the only byproduct. Catalytic competence was demonstrated across Suzuki–Miyaura coupling, Buchwald–Hartwig amination, Miyaura borylation, and alkene difunctionalization. Congratulations to all co-authors and our collaborators in the Figueroa lab at UC San Diego and at Bristol Myers Squibb!

📄 Read the paper in Organometallics: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.organomet.6c00134

🧪 Original preprint on ChemRxiv: https://chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26434/chemrxiv.15000413/v1