Frontispiece: Structure and Bonding in Nickel–Thiolate–Iodine Charge‐Transfer Complexes

Charge‐Transfer Complexes Dinuclear nickel complexes supported by macrocyclic hexaaza‐dithiophenolate ligands form a unique class of stable thiolate→halogen CT complexes (Hal = Br or I), in which short S−Hal bonds are always correlated to long Hal−Hal bonds and vice versa. The donating ability of the bridging thiolate functions was found to be similar to those of thioether or thiones as suggested by X‐ray crystallographic analysis and accompanying DFT calculations. For more details, see the Full Paper by B. Kersting et al. on page 2303 ff.