Azomethine Metal Chelates as an Efficient Catalyst for Oxidation of Organic Compounds

Abstract

Azomethine compounds played an important role as ligands due to their excellent coordinative capability and have a wide variety of industrial applications in many fields including analytical, biological, coordination inorganic chemistry and organic synthesis, such as pigments, dyes and catalyst intermediates, semiconductors and as chemo-sensors [115]. The chemistry of azomethine ligands is an important area of research with increasing interest due to the simple synthesis, versatility and diverse ranges of applications of their metal chelates, e.g. in biology and as catalysts in various reactions [16-20]. Thus, a review highlighting the oxygen affinity of azomethine metal chelates would be needed.