“…Indeed, superconductivity has been claimed in lanthanum strontium nickelate but this has never been fully substantiated (3). A few other phases exist with structural analogies in copper and nickel chemistry, for example, Li MO (4,5) and &&BaMO '' (6, 7). These structural analogues derived from the ability of both copper(II) and nickel (II) to adopt four-(square planar), "ve-(square pyramidal), and six-fold (octahedron-based) coordinations to oxygen though the "ve-and six-fold geometries…”