New bishydroxylamines with rigid and chiral cyclohexane backbones were synthesized and characterized. These dialkylhydroxylamines could successfully be employed as anionic ligands to complex transition metal ions. The various coordination motifs of the resulting hydroxylaminato complexes were analyzed and the chemistry of bishydroxylamines and their complexes extended by a class of chiral compounds.

In the first part of this work a suitable route for the synthesis of 1,2 cyclohexanediyl-bishydroxylamines was established. This was achieved by a de novo synthesis from cyclohexanediamine. In the second part the research focused on the behavior of cyclohexanediyl bishydroxylamines in complexes with Lewis-acidic metal ions.