“…In this context, and in the course of our ongoing studies on organotin(IV) chemistry (Gueye et al, 1993;Kane et al, 2009;Fall, Okio et al, 2010;Fall, Sow et al, 2010), we have isolated the title stannate as colourless crystals from the reaction of oxalic acid and diphenyltin dichloride in the presence of cyclohexylamine. To date, several organotin(IV) oxalates have been characterized by X-ray crystallographic analysis showing cis-and trans-coordination of the oxalate anion, depending on the nature of the -bonded carbon ligand that is linked to Sn IV (Ng, 1996(Ng, , 1999Ng et al, 1992;Ng & Hook, 1999;Ng & Rae, 2000;Xu et al, 2003a,b;Gueye et al, 2010Gueye et al, , 2012Reichelt & Reuter, 2014).…”