“…Although many transtion metal complexes with sulfate ions as monodentate, bidentate and bidentate-bridging ligands have been structurally characterized (Hennig et al, 1975;Zheng & Lin, 2003;Song et al, 2008), as far as we know, the reports on complexes with bidentate-chelating sulfate ligands are few (Paul et al, 2002;Lu et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2009). Here, we report the crystal structure of the new complex [CoSO 4 (C 12 H 8 N 2 ) 2 ].C 3 H 8 O 2 unexpectedly obtained during an attempt to synthesize a mixed-ligand complex of cobalt with phen and melamine via a solvothermal reaction, which is analogue with a previously reported Co II complex (Zhong et al, 2006).…”