“…Indeed, where the other ligands have higher electronegativity, the Q.S. is Table 1 IR spectral bands a of 3-amino-5-mercapto-1,2,4-triazole and its organotin(IV) compounds HL Me 2 SnL (1) n-Bu 2 SnL 2 (2) Oct 2 SnL 2 (3) Ph 2 SnL 2 (4) Me 3 SnL (5) n-Pr 3 SnL (6) n-Bu 3 SnL (7) Assignments 3382s 3330brs 3456brw 3439w 3430wsh 3419m 3386mbr 3425m 3299m 3144w 3330brw 3382w 3384wsh 3375m 3300mbr 3317m 3267m 2852w 3213w 3213w 3013w 3301m 3170mbr 3230w 3216m 2787vw 2869s 3182w 2952w 3213w 2866s 3182w 3170m 2857s 3095w 2923m 3104m mainly governed by C-Sn-C bond angle [40], and the distortion from regular six coordination can give values similar to those reported [41] for highly distorted square bipyramidal/skew trapezoidal-bipyramidal structure. Further, it has been reported [42] that I.S.…”