“…Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2004); cell refinement: SAINT-Plus (Bruker, 2001); data reduction: SAINT-Plus; program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXS97 (Sheldrick, 1997); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL97 (Sheldrick, 1997); molecular graphics: XP (Sheldrick, 1998); software used to prepare material for publication: SHELXL97 and XP. To date, many iron and chromium coordination complexes containing a large in-plane pyridine carboxamide ligand (Dutta et al, 2000) and [Co III (C 12 (Ni, 2007), have been synthesized and structural characterized. However, the manganese(III) complexes with the bpb 2ligand and its derivatives are relative scarce (Lin et al, 2003;Liang et al, 2007;Havranek et al, 1999).…”