Tailor-made isostructural copper(<scp>ii</scp>) and nickel(<scp>ii</scp>) complexes with a newly designed (N,N)-donor scaffold as functional mimics of alkaline phosphatase

This study highlights the design, synthesis, spectroscopic and computational characterization, and catalytic phosphoesterase cleavage activity of isostructural copper(ii) and nickel(ii) complexes.