Tetradentate acyclic compartmental Schiff base ligand with N2O2 compartment afford suitable coordination environment for large variety of metal ions. This type ligands can easily be synthesized by [2+1] condensation a carbonyl compounds diamine. Several complexes have been reported from the single- and double-compartment which are products salicylaldehyde, 2-hydroxyacetophenone, 3-methoxysalicy...

Metal complexes of divalent Nickel and Cobalt metal ions have been synthesized with picolinic acid hydrazide (PH) , ortho -hydroxy acetophenone picolinoyl hydrazone ( APH) ortho-hydroxy iso-nicotinoyl (AIH) ligands were isolated at both high pH low pH. These characterized by elemental analyses also electronic spectral studies magnetic measurements. Ligands PH AIH act as tridentate, while APH is...

The anticancer activity of titanium complexes has been known since the groundbreaking studies of Köpf and Köpf-Maier on titanocen dichloride. Unfortunately, possibly due to their fast hydrolysis, derivatives of titanocen dichloride failed in clinical studies. Recently, the new family of titanium salan complexes containing tetradentate ONNO ligands with anti-cancer properties has been discovered...

Iron-bispidine complexes are efficient catalysts for the oxidation of thioanisole to phenylmethylsulfoxide with iodosylbenzene as oxidant. With the tetradentate bispidine ligand L(1) (L(1) = 2,4-pyridyl-3,7-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane)) the catalytic efficiency is smaller than with the pentadentate bispidine ligand L(2) (L(2) = 2,4-pyridyl-7-(pyridine-2-ylmethyl)-3,7-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane)). ...