The coordination chemistry of transition metal complexes has been progressing at a tremendous pace. These complexes were finding use in the field of homogeneous catalysis, analytical chemistry and biological system. The presence of thiocyanto group in mixed ligand coordinated complexes of transition metal was reported to have an ability to influence the biochemical behaviour of the complexes. C...

Schiff base complexes of transition metals are of particular interest to inorganic chemists because of their structural, spectral and chemical properties, which are often strongly dependant on the nature of the ligand structure. Large number of metal (II) complexes with Schiff-base ligands has been extensively studied for their interesting structural specialties, applications and properties. Th...

Transition metal complexes containing bidentate O,O donor ligand, i.e. 3-[3-(4-chlorophenyl)4-hydroxy-6-methyl-pyran 2-one derived from 3-acetyl-6-methyl-pyran-2,4(3H)-dione (dehydroacetic acid) and p-chlorobenzaldehyde,have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, conductometry, thermal analysis, magnetic,IR, UV-Vis and fungicidal study. From the analytical and thermal data, t...

A new series of transition metal complexes of Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) were synthesized from the Schiff base ligand derived from 4-aminoantipyrine, furfural and o-phenylenediamine. The structural features were derived from their elemental analyses, infrared, UV-visible spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, thermal gravimetric analyses, ESR spectral analyses and conductivity measureme...

In complexes of the transition metals containing clusters of metal atoms the cobalt-cobalt bond lengths are almost always within 1 pm of the single-bond value 246 pm given by the enneacovalent radius of cobalt, whereas most of the observed iron-iron bond lengths are significantly larger than the single-bond value 248 pm, the mean being 264 pm, which corresponds to a half-bond. A simple discussi...

The heterogenization of homogeneous catalysts can be achieved by immobilization, grafting, anchoring or encapsulating them in an inert solid like organic polymer or inorganic support. Transition metal complexes having good catalytic properties are immobilized through encapsulation in the super cages of zeolites is called zeolite encapsulated metal complexes (ZEMC) or ship-in-the-bottle complexe...

Six transition metal-salen complexes (metal = Fe, Mn and Cr) 1-6 have been synthesized and characterized using different spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques. The binding studies of natural antioxidant, curcumin with the complexes (1-6) have been carried out by electronic absorption spectroscopic technique. The substantial shift in the absorption maximum of complexes (1-6) when they bin...

In organic synthetic reactions, the scope and application of organosulfur chemistry have increased tremendously since sulfur-containing groups serve an important auxiliary function in synthetic sequences.1 Illustrative examples are the reversal of polarity (Umpolung), the enhancement of the acidity of C-H bonds, and the transfer of chirality from sulfur to carbon.2 On the other hand, transition...

Novel oligomer metal complexes (2a-f) of the ligand 2,5-bis((4-bromophenyl)carbamoyl) terephthalic acid (1) were prepared using transition metal salts and characterized by various spectroscopic techniques. The geometry of oligomer metal complexes was carried out by electronic spectral analysis and magnetic measurement studies. Polymeric properties have also been carried out. Ligand was synthesi...

A brief history of substances containing s,p- and d-block metals in negative oxidation states is described. A classification of these species and discussions of formal oxidation state assignments for low-valent transition metals in complexes are included, along with comments on the innocent and noninnocent character of ligands in metalates. Syntheses of highly reduced carbonyl complexes formall...