“…Heterocyclic ligands have attracted much interest as versatile ligands with a variety of coordination modes with transition metal centres (Galani et al, 2014;Vimal Kumar & Radhakrishnan, 2011;Coropceanu et al, 2014;Wang, Chen et al, 2012). In particular, 1,2,4-triazole derivatives and their metal complexes have been studied extensively in recent years (Naik et al, 2011;Wang, Zhang et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2014;Liu, He et al, 2009), mainly because of their unique structures and their potential applications in optical (Manjunatha et al, 2013), electrical (Luo et al, 2013;Matesanz et al, 2004), and biological and antimicrobial areas (Tabatabaee et al, 2013;Xiong et al, 2014;Singh et al, 2012).…”