“…The TGA studies permit coordinated and uncoordinated solvate molecules, such as water or ammonia, to be distinguished [31]. Type Also, dehalogenation and decarboxylation processes may be detected and their enthalpies calculated [28,29], for examples, the Ni 2 -L 1 and Cu-L 2 complexes of the formula [Ni 2 (HL 1 )(NH 3 )Á3OH À ] and [Cu(H 2 L 2 )(OH À )(H 2 O)], respectively. The former complex gave a well defined broad peak on the DTA curve, Table 4, with a maximum at 373 K and a loss in weight of 11.64% which can respond to the elimination of two H 2 O and one coordinated NH 3 molecules [7] that is in accordance with the elemental analyses.…”