“…Several complexes with deprotonated bdmap À or zwitterionic Hbdmap (see ®rst scheme above) as a ligand for metal ions have been isolated and structurally characterized. By far the highest in number of complexes with this ligand are copper(II) complexes (Wang et al, 1992(Wang et al, , 1993Wang, 1996;El Fallah et al, 2004), but complexes with Zr (Fleeting et al, 1999), B (Huskens et al, 1998), Ga (Sun et al, 1999), Si (Lo et al, 2004), Bi (Breeze et al, 1996), Y (Guillon et al, 2000), Zn (Demsar et al, 2002) and Li (Henderson et al, 1995) are also known. Additionally, several heterometallic complexes that contain two different metal ions in the structure are known.…”