The new diorganotin (IV) phenoxyacetohydroxamate complexes of composition [Me
Sn(HL)
] (I) and [
- Bu
Sn(HL)
] (II) (where KHL
potassium phenoxyacetohydroxamate (PhOAHK
C
H
OCH
CONHOK); [Me
Sn (C
H
OCH
CONHO)
] (I) and [
-Bu
Sn(C
H
OCH
CONHO)
] (II) have been synthesized by the reactions of Me
SnCl
and
-Bu
SnCl
with biologically important potassium phenoxyacetohydroxamate ligand (KHL) in predetermined 1:2 molar ratio (metal:ligand) in anhydrous methanol
benzene under reflux and thoroughly characterized by various spectral techniques. The gas phase optimized geometry computed by using the B3LYP/6-311
G (d,p) method has depicted distorted octahedral geometry. The molecular properties such as ionization potential (IP), electron affinity (EA), chemical potential (
), hardness (
), softness (S), electronegativity (
) and electrophilicity index (
) have been calculated from the energies of frontier molecular orbitals (HOMO-LUMO energy values) to have an insight into energy distortion and energetic behaviour.