New five coordinate complexes Co(ISQ Pr i ) 2 Cl, Co(ISQ Me) 2 Cl, Co(ISQ Me) 2 I, Co(ISQ Me) 2 (SCN), Mn(ISQ Pr i ) 2 Cl, and Fe(ISQ Me) 2 Br (ISQ Pr i and ISQ Me are the 4,6 di tert butyl N (2,6 diisopropylphenyl) and 4,6 di tert butyl N (2,6 dimethylphenyl) o iminobenzosemiquinone radical anions, respectively) were synthesized. The complexes were characterized by UV Vis and IR spectroscopy and magnetochemistry. The molecular struc tures of the Fe(ISQ Me) 2 Br and Mn(ISQ Pr i ) 2 Cl complexes were established by X ray diffrac tion. The singlet ground state (S = 0) of the cobalt complexes is caused by antiferromagnetic coupling between the unpaired electrons of the radical ligands (S = 1/2) through the fully occupied atomic orbitals of low spin cobalt(III) (d 6 , S = 0). The effective magnetic moments of the complexes at 10 К are 0.18 µ B for Co(ISQ Pr i ) 2 Cl and 0.16 µ B for Co(ISQ Me) 2 I. The ground state of the manganese complex is triplet (S = 1). Two unpaired electrons of the o iminobenzosemiquinone ligands are strongly antiferromagnetically coupled with two of four unpaired electrons of high spin manganese(III) (d 4 , S = 2).Abundant data on o semiquinone complexes have been accumulated. 1,2 Studies of metal complexes with o imino benzoquinone ligands (analogs of o benzoquinones) are of considerable interest because o iminobenzoquinones have distinguishing features due to which such studies extend the range of related compounds and add to our knowledge of this class of complexes.Unlike o quinones, o iminoquinones are asymmetric, and the presence of the nitrogen atom allows one to in vestigate the spin density distribution in the chelate ring. The use of o iminosemiquinone as a spin labeled ligand in metal complexes helps in solving structural dynamic problems 3 and makes it possible to determine the spatial arrangement of ligands containing magnetic nuclei with respect to the plane of the o iminosemiquinone plane. 4 At the same time, o iminosemiquinones, like o semi quinones, serve as magnetic centers. From this stand point, investigation of spin couplings between ligands and/or between ligands and metals are of interest.The steric hindrance of the metal centers in com plexes can be varied over a wide range by introducing various substituents at the nitrogen atom. For example, o iminobenzoquinones containing the unsubstituted phe nyl substituent at the nitrogen atom form tris ligand tran sition metal complexes, which are very similar to o semi quinone derivatives. 5-7