A Brief Review On Homo-/Hetero-nuclear Coordination Compounds derived From Some Single Compartment Acyclic Schiff Base Ligands having N-, O-Donor Centres.

Tetradentate acyclic compartmental Schiff base ligand with N2O2 compartment afford suitable coordination environment for large variety of metal ions. This type of ligands can easily be synthesized by [2+1] condensation of a carbonyl compounds with a diamine. Several metal complexes have been reported from the single- and double-compartment acyclic Schiff base ligands which are the [2+1] condensation products of salicylaldehyde, 2-hydroxyacetophenone, 3-methoxysalicylaldehyde, 3-ethoxysalicylaldehyde and a diamine; The diamine counterpart in these ligands are ethylenediamine, 1,3-diaminopropane, 1,4-diaminobutane, 1-methylethylenediamine, 2,2-dimethyl, 1,3-diaminopropane, o-phenylenediamine, trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane, etc. Several review article has been published previously on compartmental Schiff base ligand compounds. This review article focused only the type and structures of Cu(II)/Ni(II)-second metal (s-, p-, d¹⁰-, 3d-, 4f-block metal) homo-/hetero- nuclear coordination comppounds derived from single compartmentl salicyaldehyde-diamine and acetophenone-diamine ligand systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]