“…Generally, the neutral oxime group >CNOH exhibits one active nitrogen for binding with metal ions, and therefore, it acts as a monodentate ligand with terminal coordination. However, using different substituents in the oxime carbon creates a large number of possibilities for affecting the coordination mode depending on whether the substituents have additional coordination sites, such as with pyridine − or phenol, or do not have additional coordination sites, as with the cyclohexane substituent . The location of the coordinative donor atoms in the substituent also has a major effect on the structure of the material, which can be seen, for example, in comparing coordination of 2-pyridyl oxime, which normally creates a chelating mononuclear complex, to that of 3-pyridyl oxime or 4-pyridyl oxime, which have been found to preferably lead to polymeric chain-like structures via terminal coordination .…”