“…A number of reports have been published on the 'H n.m.r. spectra of the complexes Co(acac),L, and Ni(acac),L, where L is pyridine (13), piperidine (13), a-, P-, and y-picolines (13), aryl phosphines, arsines, amines, sulfides, halides, and isonitriles (14), substituted anilines (15), substituted pyridine N-oxides (16,17) and quinoline N-oxides (18). No contact shifts were observed with bromobenzene, tris-otolylphosphine, triphenylarsine, triphenylamine, benzonitrile, and diphenyl sulfide (13).…”