“…Metal complexes with bipy ligands have been prepared, probably of all metals known, and numerous variations on the basic ligand 15 framework have been made. [1][2][3] However, one remarkably simple derivative that has been elusive so far is 6,6'-dihydroxy-2,2'-bipyridine (1). A few metal complexes of bipy ligands with hydroxy substituents at other positions have been reported, for example 3,3'-and 4,4'-dihydroxy-2,2'-bipyridine 4,5 and also 6-20 hydroxy-2,2'-bipyridine 6 has been coordinated to a metal centre but, to the best of our knowledge, no reports have appeared on the synthesis of a metal complex containing the 6,6'-dihydroxy-2,2'-bipyridine ligand.…”