“…We have recently determined the crystal structures of metal complexes with EATA or ATA as ligands, including bicoordinated [Ag(C 7 H 10 N 2 O 2 S) 2 ]NO 3 (Zhang et al, 2008a), four-coordinated 2-amino-4-thiazole acetic acid (ATAA) (Zhang et al, 2008b), five-coordinated [Zn(C 5 H 5 N 2 O 2 S) 2 (H 2 O)] (Zhang et al, 2009). Single crystal structure determinations of five-coordinated Ni II (He et al, 2009), Mn II (Alexandru et al, 2010) and Zn II (Siddiqui et al, 2009;Yang et al, 2009) complexes with aminothiazole acetate (ATA) derivative have been carried out by other groups, and it is found that the corresponding Cu II and Mn II complexes exhibit promising antitumor activity against cancerous cells (HeLa) (Alexandru et al, 2010). Here, we report a new six-coordinated title complex [Cd(C 7 H 10 N 2 O 2 S) 2 Cl 2 ], I, using EATA as ligand.…”