“…A detailed search carried out in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) [31] for oxalate-bridged copper(II) complexes with ox 2in bis-bidentate coordination mode displayed a total of 423 results, of which 86 correspond to dinuclear complexes that possess two additional ligands besides ox 2-. Out of 86 structures, 66 contain pentacoordinate metal ions bound to only one type of organic ligand such as pyridine [1], 2,2 -bipyridine [11,32], phenanthroline [33,34], ethylenediamine [35], pyrazole [36,37] and imidazole [38] and their derivatives, the coordination sphere being completed by simple inorganic ions such as nitrate [39], chloride [33], hydroxide [40] and perchlorate [1], or by solvent molecules such as water [6], methanol [34], dimethylformamide [41], tetrahydrofuran [42] or acetonitrile [43]. In the 20 remaining structures, all of which have been reported more recently, the metal ions are hexacoordinate and the chemical composition of the complexes, regarding the presence of at least one organic ligand, solvent molecules and simple inorganic ions, is similar to that observed for the pentacoordinate species [8,11,14,15,44,45].…”