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A new nickel(II) s-aryl complex, trans-chloro(9-phenanthrenyl)bis(triphenylphosphine)nickel(II), was used as a precatalyst for the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions of aryl chlorides. The catalytic conditions were optimized by investigating the crosscoupling of p-chloroanisole with phenylboronic acid. The results show that this complex is efficient for both electron-rich and electron-deficient aryl chlorides, though it gives better yields for activated arylboronic acids than deactivated ones. All isolated cross-coupled biaryl products have been characterized by 1 H and 13 C NMR, and their spectral data are consistent with those reported. Side products from the coupling of arylboronic acid with the precatalyst complex have also been isolated and characterized, which is helpful for understanding the coupling mechanism.

The title compound, [Ni(C14H9)Cl(C18H15P)2], was synthesized from the reaction between 9-chloro­phenanthrene, NiCl2·6H2O and triphenyl­phosphane in ethanol. The bond angles around the NiII atom indicate that it exists in a slightly distorted square-planar geometry.

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