“…This paper describes our results from the synthetic investigation of the general reaction system CdCl 2 ∙2H 2 O/phpaoH and from the full structural and spectroscopic characterization of the products; the implication of our study with respect to the solvent extraction of Cd(II) from aqueous chloride solutions by 2-pyridyl ketoximes have also been critically discussed. The present work can be considered as a continuation of our interest in several aspects of Cd(II) chemistry [15,16,17,18,19,20] and the coordination chemistry of 2-pyridyl oximes (aldo-, keto-, and amidoximes) [20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33]. Our previous experience on the latter area shows that phpaoH behaves similarly with methyl 2-pyridyl ketoxime (mepaoH; the substituent on the oxime carbon atom is a methyl group) [21,30] in 3d- and mixed 3d/4f-metal complexes, and this justifies partly the choice of phpaoH for our model studies.…”