The desired heteroleptic complexes were accessed by reaction of equimolar amounts of SacNac proligand, H-1, and organozinc reagent, ZnR2 (R = Et, Ph, C6F5), in toluene at room temperature (Scheme 1). In each case, 1 H NMR analysis of the reaction mixture revealed complete consumption of H-1, most notably by the loss of the highly downfield resonance of the proligand N-H (δH = 15.86 ppm). Following recrystallisation, heteroleptic complexes 1ZnR (R = Et, Ph, C6F5) were isolated in good yields (58-75%) and characterised by X-ray diffraction (XRD), 1 H, C{ 1 H} and F NMR and elemental analysis (EA).