“…The N 2 O 2 coordination sphere has been significantly altered due to the high electronegativity of the introduced O atoms, which will lead to novel structures and complexes with different properties formed by metal ions with the above-mentioned salamo-based ligands (Liu et al, 2020a;Pan et al, 2020b;Zhang et al, 2019aZhang et al, , 2020bKang et al, 2019a;Sun et al, 2019). The unique physical and chemical properties of salen-and salamo-based ligands and their metal complexes have attracted widespread attention in many fields, such as supramolecular architecture (Zhang et al, 2020a;Mu et al, 2020a;An et al, 2020), biology (Pessoa & Correia, 2019;Umemura et al, 2017;Asatkar et al, 2017), electrochemistry (Khandar et al, 2006;Solomon et al, 2019;Ben Jrad et al, 2019), catalysis (Sun et al, 2005;Woo et al, 2017;Ghosh et al, 2017;Azam et al, 2017;Li et al, 2019a;Konev et al, 2018;Noritake et al, 2013), ion recognition (Ryu et al, 2016;Kenaan et al, 2020;Bian et al, 2020;Xu et al, 2020;Peng et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2019aLiu et al, , 2020bZhang et al, 2020c;Wang et al, 2021;Muwal et al, 2018;Long et al, 2018;Gu ¨ndu ¨z et al, 2015;, magnetic materials (Upadhyay et al, 2017;Vignesh et al, 2017;Sharples & Collison, 2014) and...…”