“…The family of nickel(II) dithiophosphates have been intensively investigated structurally [3]. The homoleptic dithiophosphates Ni[S 2 P(OR) 2 ] 2 (R = Me [4], Et [5], n-Pr [6], iso-Pr [7], iso-Bu [8], cyclo -C 6 H 11 [9], benzyl, ortho-tolyl, meta-tolyl [10], para-tolyl [11] ) are square-planar complexes. Many six-coordinated adducts like Ni[S 2 P(OR) 2 ] 2 Á2L (L = pyridine [12,13], 2,2 0 -bipyridyl [14], 1,10-phenanthroline [15][16][17][18], 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline [19] ) have been reported.…”