“…We have studied the coordination of first-row transition metals (cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc) with the linear hexadentate ligands pytrien, [6] pydado [7] and pydadt, [7] which possess two central N, O and S donors, respectively. These ligands, with three different donor atoms, are of the type A B C C B A, in which A represents a pyridyl nitrogen atom, B a secondary amine nitrogen atom and C the central heteroatom (N, O or S).…”