Takashiro Akitsu

Tokyo University of Science Japan

Takashiro Akitsu has been a professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Japan, since 2016. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Osaka University, Japan, in 1995 and obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 2000. Dr. Akitsu studied at the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, and moved to the Department of Chemistry, Keio University, Japan. He visited the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University, USA, before moving to Tokyo University of Science. His research field includes inorganic coordination chemistry and crystallography, and his research interest is also in hybrid materials of Schiff base metal complexes.

Takashiro Akitsu

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Schiff bases, originally introduced by German chemist Hugo Schiff in 1864, are well-known imine or azomethine (RR’C=NR”) moieties prepared from aldehydes and primary amines through condensation. Since then, Schiff bases have been recognized not only as compounds but also as useful ligands for metal complexes in inorganic coordination chemistry. This is because Schiff bases are essentially Lewis bases having lone pairs on the nitrogen (N) atom (M:N=CHR). In both organic and coordination chemistry, as well as related fields of science, the functions of Schiff base complexes and materials are of great interest. This book introduces and discusses novel aspects of Schiff base compounds.

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