“…Nevertheless, the coordination chemistry of phthalimide is little developed, comprising only a few structurally characterized complexes of mainly some group eight metals as well as Au, Cu, Zn and Mn [2] which, however, are of potential interest in e.g. catalysis, fluorescence, medicinal chemistry and magnetism [3][4][5][6][7][8].Within our ongoing research focused on the metal-promoted activations of nitriles [9-13], we have recently reported the Ni(II)-ketoxime mediated transformations of different nitriles (RCN, R = alkyl, aryl) or/and phthalonitriles to afford various nickel-ligated species which include (i) symmetrical imidoylamidines (1,3,5-triazapentadienes) [14], (ii) phthalocyanines [15] and (iii) unsymmetrical imidoylamidines with imino-isoindolinone moieties [16]. In particular, it has been found [15][16][17] that the formation of the products listed in (ii) and (iii) proceeds through uncommon intermediates, e.g.…”