, respectively. The compounds were characterized by elemental analysis, IR and multinuclear NMR ( 1 H, 13 C, 31 P and 119 Sn) spectroscopy. The crystal structures of the complexes were determined by X-ray single crystal analysis, which revealed that complex 1 has a distorted octahedral geometry and complex 2 has a distorted trigonal bipyramidal structure with non-equivalent chlorine atoms. Preliminary antibacterial tests of the compounds against Gram-positive and -negative bacteria were carried out using the filter paper disk method and chloroamphenicol was used as standard for comparison.