The Supramolecular Attitude of Metal–Salophen and Metal–Salen Complexes

Abstract

In this review we cover some aspects of metal–salophen and metal–salen complex chemistry related to their supramolecular attitude. We examined under the lens of the non-covalent interactions their potential to behave as building blocks for auto-assembled architectures, supramolecular receptors and catalysts, although this last point has been only briefly mentioned.

Keywords

• Schiff-base complexes
• salen and salophen ligands
• supramolecular chemistry
• metal complexes
• auto-assembly
• molecular recognition