“…Manganese complexes with carboxylate ligands have received extensive attention as carboxylates are good candidates for the investigation of exchange coupling interactions between adjacent metal ions (Soler et al, 2004). Hippuratic acid, an Nprotected amino acid, was previously found to act as an oxygen-donor anionic ligand in the construction of coordination compounds (Morelock et al, 1979(Morelock et al, , 1982Grewe et al, 1982;Brown & Trefonas, 1973;Huber et al 1988;Jones & Schelbach, 1988;Darensbourg et al, 1994;Battistuzzi et al, 1996;Severin et al, 1996). However, there are only a few reported crystal structures of mixed-ligand complexes of hippuratic acid and heteroaromatic ligands such as 1,10phenanthroline, 2,2-bipyridine and 4,4-bipyridine (e.g.…”