“…We report here the twinned crystal structures of tris(ethylenediamine)zinc(II) sulfate, (I), and tris(ethylenediamine)copper(II) sulfate, (II), both measured at 110 (2) K. At room temperature, the corresponding complexes of vanadium (Daniels et al, 1995), cobalt (Yotnoi et al, 2010), nickel (Mazhar-ul-Haque et al, 1970), copper (Cullen & Lingafelter, 1970) and zinc (Neverov et al, 1990) are isostructural in the trigonal space group P31c and the metal complex is a racemic mixture of the and isomers. There has also been a report of an isostructural manganese complex (Lu, 2009), but because of the positive residual electron density on the site of the metal and the unusually short metal-nitrogen distance we regard this structure with due care.…”