Synthesis of coordinatively unsaturated diphosphine nickel(II) and palladium(II)β-agostic ethyl cations: X-ray crystal structure of [Ni{But2P(CH2)2PBut2}(C2H5)][BF4]

Abstract
Protonation of [M(L2)(η2-C2H4)](L2= chelating diphosphine; M = Ni, Pd) with HBF4 affords a series of cations [M(L2)(C2H5)]+ characterized as β-agostic ethyl complexes by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray structure analysis.
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