“…Although no metal complex of molecular saccharin is known, the corresponding deprotonated saccharinate anion [sac ¼ (C 7 H 4 NO 3 S) ) ] behaves as a versatile polyfunctional ligand and forms a number of complexes with different metal ions rather easily, due to the presence of the negatively charged imino nitrogen atom and the carbonyl and sulfonyl oxygen atoms. The first copper(II)-saccharinato complex, reported by Ahmed et al [6] in 1981, received considerable interest and gradually syntheses and X-ray structures of a series of tetraaquabis (saccharinato) metal(II) complexes with formula [M(sac) 2 (H 2 O) 4 ] AE 2H 2 O, where M II ¼ V [7,8], Cr [8,9], Mn [10], Fe [10][11][12], Co [10][11][12], Ni [10][11][12], Cu [6,11,12], Zn [9,10,12,13] and Cd [10,13], were reported. The structural analysis of these bis(saccharinato) complexes showed that all of them are isostructural, crystalizing in the monoclinic space group P2 1 /c, and all the metal(II) ions have octahedral geometry with four aqua ligands and two sac anions in trans positions.…”