“…13 Some other practical areas involving hydroxamic acids and their complexes include removal of toxic elements by solvent extraction, 14 usage as efficient and environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitors, 15 applications as collectors for flotation of minerals, 16 antioxidant acivity, 17 and their potential as redox switches for electronic devices. 18 Amazingly, such a broad spectrum of activity of hydroxamic acids is almost exclusively associated with only one type of chemical reactions; that is, their ability to bind a large variety of metal ions forms, in the vast majority of cases, O,O five-membered chelate rings [19][20][21] (bridging 22,23 and monodentate 24 coordination modes are also known, although scarce), and these complexes are often characterized by very high stability constants. 21 Although hydroxamic acids have been known for over a century, 25 their reactivity modes involving metal centers, besides the complex forming properties, are practically unexplored; among the rare exceptions are the recently described deoxygenation of the N-OH group occurring at Os(III) and Rh(I) centers, 26 Ni(II)-assisted hydroxylamine elimination, 23 and reductive cleavage of the N-O bond with SmI 2 .…”