Methyl orange reacts with some salts of transition metals such as Ni(I1), Cu(I1) and Co(I1) in non polar solvent to give different metalated products through N=N and C-N bond cleavage. Their structures are confirmed by chemical analysis and some spectroscopic (fR, UVNis, MS and X-ray) methods.


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