Schiff Base Metal Complexes Synthesis and Applications

Get introduced to the various applications of Schiff bases with this thorough guide

Schiff bases are compounds created from a condensed amino compound, which frequently form complexes with metal ions. Their applications are diverse—biological, catalytic, in materials and more—used in many industries. Understanding these compounds, their properties, and the available methods for synthesizing them is a key to unlocking industrial innovation.

Schiff Base Metal Complexes provides a comprehensive overview of these compounds. It introduces the compounds and their properties before moving to the various synthesizing methods. A survey of existing and potential applications completes the picture and makes this a crucial guide for researchers and industry professionals looking to work with these versatile materials.

Schiff Base Metal Complexes readers will also find:

• A systematic and organized structure designed to make needed information instantly accessible
• Detailed coverage of thermal synthesis, photochemical synthesis, and more
• Challenges with different methods described in order to help readers make the correct choice for their own work

Schiff Base Metal Complexes is a useful reference for organic chemists, materials scientists, and researchers or industry professionals working with organometallics.

Pranjit Barman, PhD is Professor of Chemistry at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India. He has published widely on organometallics and related areas of research.

Anmol Singh is a Research Scholar at the National Insitute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India, studying Schiff bases and organometallics.

1. Introduction
- Historical Background
- Classification
- Different routes of applications
- Kinds of Schiff Base metal complexes
- Effect of different parameters on Schiff Base and their metal complexes
- Achiral Schiff Base
- Chiral Schiff Base
- Thioether Schiff Base

2. Synthesis and Mechanism
- General routes of Synthesis
- Different routes of Synthesis
- Synthesis and Mechanism of Achiral Schiff Base
- Synthesis and Mechanism of Chiral Schiff Base
- Synthesis and Mechanism of Thioether Schiff Base
- Synthesis and Mechanism of Schiff Base- Metal Complexes

3. Application
- Introduction
- General Applications
- Application in Medicinal field
- Application as Catalysis
- Application in the Pharmacological field
- Application in the Industrial field