AbstractsChemistry

"The effects of ammonium acetate on the solubility of anhydrous nickel (II) acetate in anhydrous acetic acid was investigated and was found to behave similar to the zinc (II), copper (II), and cobalt (II) systems. Problems with equilibrium, encountered by previous investigators, were overcome. The determination of the structure of nickel (II) acetate hemiacetate was atacked by infrared studies, preparation of adducts, cryoscopic studies, magnetic susceptibility measurements, and absorption spectra. It was found that nickel (II) acetate hemiacetate is octahedrally coordinated with two coordination sites vacant. It was shown that the binuclear cage structure common to copper (II), chromium (II), and rhodium (II) acetates is scarcely possible, in view of magnetic moment measurements. The data gathered in this work are not sufficiently interpretive to allow valid conclusions to be drawn concerning the structure of nickel (II) acetate hemiacetate" – Abstract, leaf ii.