“…The coordination chemistry of 1,4,7-triazacyclononane (TACN) has been extensively studied for its applications in the simulation of metalloenzymes and metalloproteins (Chaudhury et al, 1985;Deal et al, 1996;Hegg & Burstyn, 1995;Hegg et al, 1997;Lin et al, 2001;Williams et al, 1999) as well as in constructing molecule-based magnetic materials (Berseth et al, 2000;Cheng et al, 2004;Poganiuch et al, 1991). In general, TACN ligand can form stable sandwich complexes with many transition metals (Stranger et al, 1992;Zompa & Margulis, 1978) or functions as a terminal chelator for the assembly of binuclear/polynuclear species and coordination polymers supported by bridging ligands (Bencini et al, 1990;Wang et al, 2005;Wang et al, 2003). In this paper, a half-sandwich type Ni II complex with TACN has been synthesized and characterized.…”