The zinc complex with neutral organochalcogen ligand Mbit, [（Mbit）2Zn]（Cl O4）2（1, Mbit = 1,1＇-methylenebis（3-methyl-imidazole-2-thione））, has been synthesized and characterized. The complex has been characterized by elemental analysis, NMR and IR spectra. The molecular structure of 1 has been determined by X-ray crystallography. For the complex, C18H24Cl2N8O8S4 Zn, Mr = 744.96, triclinic, space group P1, a = 11.2923（18）, b = 11.9353（19）, c = 13.837（3） , α = 114.763（2）, β = 92.132（2）, γ = 116.039（2）°, V = 1464.6（5） 3, Z = 2, Dc = 1.689 g/cm3, λ = 1.54184 , μ = 1.363 mm-1, F（000） = 760, S = 1.098, the final R = 0.0554 and w R = 0.0.1579. Complex 1 exhibits photocatalytic activity for methyl orange（MO） degradation under UV light and shows good stability toward photocatalysis.
Three half-sandwich ruthenium（II） p-cymene complexes containing naphthalenebased Schiff base ligands [Ru（p-cymene）LCl]（2 a～2 c） have been synthesized and characterized. Both Schiff-base ligands and ruthenium complexes were fully characterized by ^1H and ^13C NMR spectra, mass spectrometry and infrared spectrometry. The molecular structure of ruthenium complex 2 b was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods. For the complex： C（24H23ClN2ORu, Mr = 524.02, monoclinic, space group P21/c, a = 12.3888（4）, b = 17.3296（6）, c = 20.7744（7）A°, β = 92.8000（10）°, V = 4454.8（3） A°^3, Z = 8, Dc = 1.563 g/cm^3, μ = 0.936 mm^-1, F（000） = 2128, S = 1.154, the final R = 0.0309 and w R = 0.0703. Moreover, these ruthenium complexes are active catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitroarenes to aromatic anilines in the presence of sodium tetrahydroborate（NaBH4） reducing agent.
The complex DtbpNiCl2（Dtbp = 2,9-di-tert-butyl-1,10-phenanthroline） was synthe- sized and characterized by X-ray single-crystal structure analysis. For the complex： C20 H24 Cl2 N2 Ni CH2 Cl2, Mr = 506.95, monoclinic, space group P21 /c, a = 9.5905（3）, b = 13.7587（3）, c = 17.3364（5）, β = 94.244（2）°, V = 2281.31（11）3, Z = 4, Dc = 1.476 g/cm3, λ = 1.54184, μ = 5.606 mm-1, F（000） = 1048, S = 1.079, R = 0.0402 and wR = 0.1010 for 3223 observed reflections with I 〉 2σ（I）. In complex DtbpNiCl2, the nickel adopts a distorted tetrahedral geometry coordinated by two nitrogen atoms of Dtbp and two chlorine ions. The complex is connected by intermolecular C–H…Cl hydrogen bonds to form a 1D structure in the solid state.
