Fundamentals and Applications of Coordination Chemistry, Edition 1

Coordination chemistry is currently a center of interest due to the study of the active sites of metalloproteins and metalloenzymes, their applications in catalysis and the emergence of new electronic components.

That’s why we have been interested for several years in the synthesis of new complexes of transition metals and lanthanides. These complexes can be mono, homo and heterobinuclear. The ligands used are organic compounds, generally Schiff bases, mainly having oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur as donor atoms. These ligands have the possibility of encapsulating one or more metal ions, and/or of forming polynuclear complexes with interactions between the different metal centers so as to generate new properties.

To study these complexes it was first necessary to go through the chemical bonds, then give the different geometries of compounds encountered, then review the coordination complexes finally use crystal field theory, spectroscopic terms and magnetism of the complexes. Several applications have been given to illustrate the fundamental principles developed.