The study of the electronic and molecular structure of first transition metal complexes is crucial for the understanding of their role in biological systems, catalysis and material chemistry. Schiff base-transition metals complexes are well-known for a variety of applications including olefin polymerization activity and coupling of CO2 with epoxides. This presentation will discuss our ongoing research in creating divalent metal complexes with two sterically demanding monoanionic Schiff base ligands. Recently, we have prepared first row transiton metals complexes with the form [(Me2H3C6)N=C(H)C6H2tBuO]2M, M = Fe-Zn. The synthesis and characterization by NMR, IR, single crystal X-ray crystallography, UV-Vis, EPR and DFT calculations of these complexes will be discussed. Further, their redox chemistry will be shown.

Molecular and electronic structure of divalent first row transition metals with Schiff base ligands

244th National Meeting (2012)

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