“…The aromatic diamine, benzene-1,2-diamine also known as o-phenylenediamine, can function as a neutral ligand and bind to a metal via both amine N atoms (Koizumi & Fukuju, 2011;Guillé n et al, 2018) or by a single nitrogen in a monodentate fashion (Nelson et al, 1982;Dickman, 2000). In addition, benzene-1,2-diamine can function as a charge-balancing dication in which both the amine N atoms are protonated (Raghavaiah et al, 2006;Powers & Geiger, 2019) or as a monocation (Raghavaiah et al, 2005;Mishra & Pallepogu, 2018).…”