“…A large number of metal complexes with pyridine N-oxide and its derivatives have been reported for their interesting coordination chemistry in recent decades (Karayannis et al, 1973(Karayannis et al, , 1976Landers & Phillips, 1982;Casellato et al, 1983;Scarrow et al, 1985;Lobana & Singh, 1995). However, metal complexes of pyridine N-oxide derivatives with donor atoms in the 2position, such as 2-hydroxypyridine N-oxide (Landers & Phillips, 1981) and 2-mercaptopyridine N-oxide (mpo) (Robinson, 1964;Davidson et al, 1983;Chen et al, 1991;Shi et al, 1997;Lobana & Verma, 1999;Lobana et al, 2003) have been rarely been studied. However, the synthesis of Pt(mpo) 2 has been reported (Davidson et al, 1983;Lobana & Verma, 1999;Lobana et al, 2003).…”