ChemInform Abstract: Recent Developments in the Metallosupramolecular and Molecular Structures of the Cobalt, Iron and Vanadium Complexes of the Dianionic Tetradentate Schiff Base Ligands of Salicylideneimine and Acetylacetoneimine

Four different types of metallosupramolecular structures are distinguishable for the title complexes. These types are described as: (a) The metal complex could react with other metal ions as a ligand, (b) Dimerization occurs through Lewis acid and Lewis base interactions of the metal ion and the coordinated oxygen atom of the ligand with those of an adjacent molecule, (c) Dimerization and chain formation occur using the donor-acceptor behaviour of the oxovanadium (IV) ion, and (d) Molecular association occurs through the bridged fluoride. Types (b), (c) and (d) are self-assembly. Chemical understanding of those types could lead to designing, and establishing procedures for, the preparation of new metallosupramolecular structures of homo- and heterobinuclear (as well as polynuclear) metal complexes with similar or mixed ligands.