start-ver=1.4 cd-journal=joma no-vol=E76 cd-vols= no-issue= article-no= start-page=1813 end-page=1817 dt-received= dt-revised= dt-accepted= dt-pub-year=2020 dt-pub=2020 dt-online= en-article= kn-article= en-subject= kn-subject= en-title= kn-title=Comparison of mol?ecular structures of cis-bis?[8-(di?methyl?phosphan?yl)quinoline]?nickel(II) and -platinum(II) complex cations en-subtitle= kn-subtitle= en-abstract= kn-abstract=The crystal structures of the complexes (SP-4-2)-cis-bis[8-(dimethylphosphanyl)quinoline-2 N,P]nickel(II) bis(perchlorate) nitromethane monosolvate, [Ni(C11H12NP)2](ClO4)2?CH3NO2 (1), and (SP-4-2)-cis-bis[8-(dimethylphosphanyl)quinoline-2 N,P]platinum(II) bis(tetrafluoroborate) acetonitrile monosolvate, [Pt(C11H12NP)2](BF4)2?C2H3N (2), are reported. In both complex cations, two phosphanylquinolines act as bidentate P,N-donating chelate ligands and form the mutually cis configuration in the square-planar coordination geometry. The strong trans influence of the dimethylphosphanyl donor group is confirmed by the Ni?N bond lengths in 1, 1.970?(2) and 1.982?(2)?? and, the Pt?N bond lengths of 2, 2.123?(4) and 2.132?(4)??, which are relatively long as compared to those in the analogous 8-(diphenylphosphanyl)quinoline complexes. Mutually cis-positioned quinoline donor groups would give a severe steric hindrance between their ortho-H atoms. In order to reduce such a steric congestion, the NiII complex in 1 shows a tetrahedral distortion of the coordination geometry, as parameterized by 4 = 0.199?(1), while the PtII complex in 2 exhibits a typical square-planar coordination geometry [4 = 0.014?(1)] with a large bending deformation of the ideally planar Me2Pqn chelate planes. In the crystal structure of 2, three F atoms of one of the BF4 ? anions are disordered over two sets of positions with refined occupancies of 0.573?(10) and 0.427?(10). en-copyright= kn-copyright= en-aut-name=MoriMasatoshi en-aut-sei=Mori en-aut-mei=Masatoshi kn-aut-name= kn-aut-sei= kn-aut-mei= aut-affil-num=1 ORCID= en-aut-name=SuzukiTakayoshi en-aut-sei=Suzuki en-aut-mei=Takayoshi kn-aut-name= kn-aut-sei= kn-aut-mei= aut-affil-num=2 ORCID= affil-num=1 en-affil=Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University kn-affil= affil-num=2 en-affil=Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University kn-affil= en-keyword=8-quinolylphosphane kn-keyword=8-quinolylphosphane en-keyword=asymmetrical bidentate ligand kn-keyword=asymmetrical bidentate ligand en-keyword=square-planar coordination kn-keyword=square-planar coordination en-keyword=tetra?hedral distortion kn-keyword=tetra?hedral distortion en-keyword=trans influence kn-keyword=trans influence en-keyword=trans influence kn-keyword=trans influence END