Keywords: Nickel / S ligands / Silicon / Hydrazine / NicotinamideThe new organosulfur ligands si S 3 -H 2 [ si S 3 2− = bis(2-mercapto-3-trimethylsilylphenyl) sulfide(2−)] and ca S 3 -H 2 [ ca S 3 2− = bis(2-mercapto-3-carboxyphenyl) sulfide(2−)] were synthesized from H S 3 -H 2 [ H S 3 2− = bis(2-mercaptophenyl) sulfide(2−)], n-butyllithium, and Me 3 SiCl or CO 2 /H + . Reaction of si S 3 -H 2 with Ni(ac) 2 ·4H 2 O gave the air-stable and well-soluble trinuclear complex [Ni( si S 3 )] 3 (1) whose structure was determined by X-ray crystallography. Reactions of complex 1 with nucleophiles L [L = PR 3 (R = nPr, Ph, Cy), N 2 H 4 , StBu − , and Cl − ] yielded the corresponding neutral or anionic complexes, which were isolated as [Ni(PR 3 )( si S 3 )] [R = nPr (2), Ph (3), Cy (4)], Bu 4 N[Ni(Cl)( si S 3 )] (5), Bu 4 N-[Ni(StBu)( si S 3 )] (6), and [Ni(N 2 H 4 )( si S 3 )] (8). The azido complex Et 4 N[Ni(N 3 )( si S 3 )] (7) was prepared from Me 3 SiN 3 and