Aims. We test the technique of spectro-astrometry as a potential method to investigate the close environment of massive young stars. Methods. Archival VLT near infrared K band spectra (R=8900) of three massive young stellar objects and one Wolf-Rayet star are examined for spectro-astrometric signatures. The young stellar objects display emission lines such as Brγ, CO 2-0 and CO 3-1 that are cha...

The title compound, (C15H14N3)[NiCl4]Cl, comprises an NiII cation tetra-hedrally coordinated by four chloride anions, a non-coordinating chloride anion and an essentially planar terpyridinium trication (tpyH33+), in which the central pyridinium ring forms dihedral angles of 5.7 (2) and 6.0 (2)° with the peripheral pyridinium rings. Three inter-species N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds are formed with the C...

New dodecanuclear bimetallic Ni8M4 clusters were obtained in the reaction between octacyanometallates(IV), nickel(II) cations and diimine ligands. {[Ni(LL)(H2O)]2[Ni(LL)(H2O)2]6[M(CN)8]4} assemblies, where LL = 1,10-phenanthroline M = Mo, (1) or LL = 2,2′-bipyridine M = W (2) or Mo (3), are among the largest octacyanometallate-based clusters. They show the same compact topology of the cluster c...

The reaction of one equivalent of [n-Bu4N]2[Ni(opboR2)] with two equivalents of [Cu(pmdta)(X)2] afforded the heterotrinuclear CuIINiIICuII containing bis(oxamidato) type complexes [Cu2Ni(opboR2)(pmdta)2]X2 (R = Me, X = NO3- (1); R = Et, X = ClO4- (2); R = n-Pr, X = NO3- (3); opboR2 = o-phenylenebis(NR-substituted oxamidato); pmdta = N,N,N',N",N"-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine). The identities of...

In the title NiII complex, [Ni(C10H11O2)2(C6H6N2O)2(H2O)2]·2H2O, the divalent Ni ion occupies a crystallographically imposed centre of symmetry and is coordinated by two O atoms from the carboxyl-ate groups of two 2,4,6-tri-methyl-benzoate (TMB) ligands [Ni-O = 2.0438 (12) Å], two N atoms from the pyridyl groups of two isonicotinamide (INA) ligands [Ni-N = 2.1506 (15) Å] and two water mol-ecule...