The effect of the methyl substitutions at different carbon atoms of the polyene chain of the retinal Schiff base has been studied on the structure, charge distribution, and proton affinity (PA) in a Schiff base model with the same number of conjugated double bonds (six conjugated double bonds including the Schiff base group). The methyl groups were added to the nitrogen atom and/or different ca...

Reaction of excess cyanide with a ruthenium(VI) nitrido complex bearing a tridentate Schiff base ligand produces a novel tricyanoruthenium(III) complex in which nucleophilic substitution of an imine hydrogen of the Schiff base by cyanide has occurred, this complex is a useful building block for the construction of 3d-Ru(III) magnetic materials.

In the title compound, [Mn(NCS)(2)(C(17)H(20)N(4))], the Mn(II) atom is six-coordinated by the N,N',N'',N'''-tetra-dentate Schiff base ligand and by two trans-N atoms from two thio-cyanate anions, forming a distorted octa-hedral geometry. The dihedral angle between the aromatic rings of the Schiff base is 9.5 (3)°.

The pyridine-coordinated Cu(II) atom in the title Schiff base complex, [Cu(C(15)H(11)N(3)O(5))(C(5)H(5)N)], is O,N,O'-chelated by the doubly deprotonated Schiff base ligand. The metal centre is in a square-planar coordination geometry.

Protein-to-protein electron transfer (ET) is a critical process in biological chemistry for which fundamental understanding is expected to provide a wealth of applications in biotechnology. Investigations of protein-protein ET systems in reductive activation of artificial cofactors introduced into proteins remains particularly challenging because of the complexity of interactions between the co...

The 1H and 15N NMR spectra of several 15N-labeled pyridoxal-5'-phosphate model systems have been measured at low temperature in various aprotic and protic solvents of different polarity, i.e., dichloromethane-d2, acetonitrile-d3, tetrahydrofuran-d8, freon mixture CDF3/CDClF2, and methanol. In particular, the 15N-labeled 5'-triisopropyl-silyl ether of N-(pyridoxylidene)-tolylamine (1a), N-(pyrid...

The title complex, [Fe(C(12)H(9)ClNO(2))(3)], is a mononuclear Schiff base iron(III) compound. The Fe atom is six-coordinated by three phenolic O and three imine N atoms from three Schiff base ligands in an octa-hedral geometry.