A novel zinc（Ⅱ） complex of empirical formula,ZnL2（L=anionic forms of S-benzyl-β-N-（2,4-dichlorobenzylidene） hydrazine carbodithioate）,has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis,IR spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction.The crystal belongs to the triclinic system,space group P with a = 9.3168（9）,b = 13.0353（13）,c = 14.7702（15） ,α = 71.2860（10）,= 87.5140（10）,γ = 79.4480（10）o,V = 1670.0（3） 3,Z = 2,Mr = 773.93,Dc = 1.539 g/cm3,μ = 1.334 mm-1,F（000） = 784,the final R = 0.0403 and wR = 0.0800 for 4060 observed reflections with I〉2（I）.In the crystal structure,the zinc（Ⅱ） complex has a distorted tetrahedral geometry in which the zinc ion is coordinated by the nitrogen and sulfur atoms from two Schiff base ligands,respectively.The preliminary bioassay indicates that the Schiff base and its zinc complex exhibit inhibitory activity against the human gastric cancer cell lines（MKN45） and hepatoma cell lines（HepG2）.
