Keywords: Cobalt / Nickel / Copper / Electrochemical synthesis / S ligands / Phosphane ligands Neutral cobalt, nickel and copper complexes of a series of phosphanylthiol ligands Ph n P(C 6 H 4 SH-2) 3-n (n = 1, 2) have been synthesized and characterized by IR and NMR ( 1 H and 31 P) spectroscopy, FAB mass spectrometry and X-ray structural analysis. All of the compounds, with the exception of [Co{Ph 2 PC 6 H 4 S-2} 2 ], were synthesized by electrochemical oxidation of the anodic metal (cobalt, nickel or copper) in an acetonitrile solution of the appropriate ligand and a small amount of tetramethylammonium perchlorate as an electro-