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Organotin compounds are of current interest due to increase in their biological activities as well as industrial and agricultural applications 1,2 . There are now more organometallic compounds of tin in commercial use than any other element, covering a wide spectrum of biological and non-biological applications 3,4 . In general, the biochemical activity of organotin compounds is influenced remarkably by the coordination number of tin atoms 5 . Among organotin(IV) compounds, organotin(IV) carboxylates have been studied extensively for their antimicrobial, antiinflammatory and antituberculosis activities 5 . In view of well known application and biological activities of organotin derivatives we are continuously involved in synthesis and characterization of organotin(IV) carboxylates [6][7][8] .Recently, we have investigated organotin compounds containing alkoxide ligand 4-hydroxypiperidine with di-and triorganotin moieties and the result of this study are reported here in. EXPERIMENTALAnalytical grade organotin chlorides (dimethyltin dichloride, trimethyltin chloride, triphenyltin chloride, diphenyltin dichloride, tri-n-butyltin chloride, di-n-butyltin dichloride) were purchased from Aldrich. The ligand, 4-hydroxypiperidine was obtained from ACROS. Organic solvents used for synthesis

Key indicators: single-crystal X-ray study; T = 100 K; mean (O-N) = 0.008 Å; R factor = 0.049; wR factor = 0.131; data-to-parameter ratio = 22.9.SA is thankful to Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, for financial support.

Corrigendum to Acta Cryst. (2007), E63, m2329.