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Tetrachloronickelate is the 
When concentrated lithium chloride and nickel chloride solution in water is mixed, only a pentaaquachloro complex is formed: i(H2O)5Clsup>+. However in other organic solvents, or molten salts the tetrachloronickelate ion can form. Nickel can be separated from such a solution in water or methanol, by partitioning it into a cyclohexane solution of amines.
Organic ammonium salts of the type (R3NH)2 iCl4are often
Tetrachloronickelate is the metal complex
A coordination complex consists of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the ''coordination centre'', and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as '' ligands'' or complexing agents. Man ...
with the formula iCl4sup>2−. Salts of the complex are available with a variety of cations, but a common one is tetraethylammonium
Tetraethylammonium (TEA), () or (Et4N+) is a quaternary ammonium cation consisting of four ethyl groups attached to a central nitrogen atom, and is positively charged. It is a counterion used in the research laboratory to prepare lipophilic salts ...
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When concentrated lithium chloride and nickel chloride solution in water is mixed, only a pentaaquachloro complex is formed: i(H2O)5Clsup>+. However in other organic solvents, or molten salts the tetrachloronickelate ion can form. Nickel can be separated from such a solution in water or methanol, by partitioning it into a cyclohexane solution of amines.
Organic ammonium salts of the type (R3NH)2 iCl4are often thermochromic
Thermochromism is the property of substances to change color due to a change in temperature. A mood ring is an excellent example of this phenomenon, but thermochromism also has more practical uses, such as baby bottles which change to a differen ...
(R = Me, Et, Pr). Near room temperature, these salts are yellow , but these solids become blue when heated to near 70 °C. The bright blue color is characteristic of tetrahedral iCl4sup>2−, the intensity being a consequence of the Laporte selection rule. The yellow color results from a polymer consisting of octahedral Ni centers. The corresponding tetrabromonickelates are also thermochromic with a lower transition temperatures.
History
The blue colour due to the tetrachloronickelate ion was first observed in 1944 when Remy and Meyer melted cesium chloride and cesium nickel trichloride together.Compounds
Related substances
* tetrabromonickelatesReferences
{{chlorine compounds Nickel complexes Inorganic chlorine compounds Chlorometallates