“…However, some recent articles have evidenced an increasing interest for emitting Ni II complexes (Srinivas et al, 2016;Cerezo et al, 2017;More et al, 2017b). In the last decade, our research group and others have reported the synthesis, structural, spectroscopic, NLO and magnetic properties of some nickel(II) Schiff base complexes (Elerman et al, 2001;Kara et al, 2003;Ü nver et al, 2006;Shawish et al, 2016;Elmehdawi et al, 2017). According to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD, Version 5.38, November 2016 updates;Groom et al, 2016), there are few reports on investigations of the emission spectra of salen-type ligands [salen is 2,2 0 -ethylenebis(nitrilomethylidene)diphenol] and their Ni II complexes (More et al, 2017a,b;Donmez et al, 2017a,b).…”