Bis(3-acetyl-6-methyl-2-oxo-2H-pyran-4-olato)bis(dimethyl sulfoxide)nickel(II)

Abstract

In the title compound, [Ni(C8H7O4)2{(CH3)2SO}2], the NiII atom is located on a crystallographic centre of symmetry and has a distorted octahedral coordination geometry of type MO6. The bidentate dehydroacetic acid (DHA) ligands occupy the equatorial plane of the complex in a trans configuration, and the dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) ligands are weakly coordinated through their O atoms in the axial positions.