Among the group 10 and 11 elements, nickel and copper feature most prominently in literature reactions with yellow arsenic. Nickel tetrafluoroborate salts react analogously to cobalt complexes in the presence of triphos to form a sandwich structure with a central cyclic As moiety. Much like iron, the reaction of nickel cyclopentadienyl carbonyl complexes with As yields a variety of bi- and multi-metallic products depending on the size of the attending ligands, though the nature and geometric structure of these compounds differ from those observed with iron. These include trimers with bridging As and As moieties in cubane structural arrangements when smaller Cp ligands are employed, and distorted hexagonal prism complexes with two nickel fragments and four arsenic atoms when bulkier Cp groups are introduced.
The reaction of the copper complex [LCu(NCMe)] (L = [{N(CHiPr-2,6)C(Me)}CH]) with yellow arsenic yields the As-bridged dimer [{LCu}- (μ,η-As)]. The four-atom arsenic moiety in this complex was deemed to be "intact" yellow arsenic through the use of density functional theory calculations determining the change in bond critical points between the free and bound arsenic molecules. Specifically, only a small shift was observed in the bond critical points between arsenic atoms involved in binding to copper; the remaining bond critical points were very similar to free yellow arsenic.