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In the centrosymmetric title compound, [Cd2(C13H12NOS2)4], pairs of dithio­carbamate ligands exhibit different structural functions. Each of the terminal ligands is bidentately coordinated to one CdII atom and forms a planar four-membered CS2Cd chelate ring, whereas pairs of the tridentate bridging ligands link two neighbouring CdII atoms, forming extended eight-membered C2S4Cd2 tricyclic units whose geometry can be approximated by a chair conformation. The coordination polyhedron of the CdII atoms is a distorted square-pyramid. The five-membered furan ring and the benzene ring are disordered over two sets of sites with an occupancy ratio of 0.62 (8):0.38 (8).

Three complexes of a dithiocarbamate ligand (dbpdtc = benzyl(4-(benzylamino)phenyl)dithiocarbamate), namely [Ni(dbpdtc) 2 ] (1), [Ni(dbpdtc)(NCS)(PPh 3 )] (2) and [Ni(dbpdtc)(PPh 3 ) 2 ]ClO 4 (3) have been prepared. The complexes were characterized by IR, electronic spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. A single-crystal X-ray structural analysis was carried out for complex 1 and showed that the nickel is in a distorted square planar environment with a NiS 4 chromophore. For the two mixed ligand complexes, the thioureide m C-N values were shifted to higher wavenumbers compared to [Ni(dbpdtc) 2 ], suggesting increased strength of the thioureide bond due to the presence of the p-accepting phosphine. Electronic spectral studies suggest square planar geometries for the complexes. Cyclic voltammetry showed easier reduction of nickel(II) to nickel(I) in the mixed ligand complexes compared to [Ni(dbpdtc) 2 ].

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