“…The new bands appear in the region 1595-1575 cm -1 can be assigned to the asymmetric stretching vibration (ν as ) of the ligated carboxylato group and the symmetric vibration occurs in the region 1340-1377 cm -1 . The values of Δν for our complexes are higher than 200 cm -1 indicating a monodentate coordination mode of the carboxylato group [9][10][11][12]. The coordination of the oxygen and nitrogen atoms of the ligands was supported by the appearance of new bands were observed at 656, 528, 477 cm -1 for Ni(II), 721, 662 cm -1 for Cu(II), 657, 573, 529 cm -1 for Zn(II), 660, 618, 570, 510 cm-1 for Zr(IV) and 659, 634, 604, 570, 507, 474 for La(III) can be assigned to v(M-O) and v(M-N) respectively, confirming the coordination of both oxygen and nitrogen atoms to metal center [13].…”