“…For bidentate oxamate in mononuclear systems, both the O,O 0 -and N,O-coordination modes are possible. However, essentially all reported crystal structures of mononuclear oxamate complexes have the ligand O,O 0 -bound at a labile metal centre (Braibanti et al, 1971;Pellinghelli et al, 1972;Skoulika et al, 1988a,b;Veltsistas et al, 1995Veltsistas et al, , 1999Papa-dimitriou et al, 1998;Novosad et al, 2000;Rodrígez-Martín et al, 2001;Wang et al, 2003). The sole example of a robust metal centre is the cobalt(III) complex p-[Co(O 2 CCONH 2 -O,O 0 )-(tren)]Cl 2 Á2H 2 O [tren is tris(2-aminoethyl)amine; Chun et al, 1999].…”