“…According to our experience, concerning the most bioactive structural arrangement, the ligands L1 , L2 , and L3 were selected for this study ( Scheme 1 ). Using the known methodology developed by our group, the starting compounds endo- prolinates 1 , generated by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition [ 16 , 21 – 22 ], were submitted to the reaction with benzoyl isothiocyanate in refluxing acetonitrile to obtain compounds L1 , L2 and L3 in good yields [ 16 , 21 ]. Due to the very low biological activity of these ligands by themselves, the chelation with nickel(II) and palladium(II) was successfully performed using the corresponding acetate salt in methanol at rt for 48 h, affording cis- L1-M , L2-M , and L3-M in yields depicted in Scheme 1 .…”