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