%0 Journal Article
%T Schiff Bases: A Short Survey on an Evergreen Chemistry Tool
%A Wenling Qin
%A Sha Long
%A Mauro Panunzio
%A Stefano Biondi
%J Molecules
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/molecules181012264
%X The review reports a short biography of the Italian naturalized chemist Hugo Schiff and an outline on the synthesis and use of his most popular discovery: the imines, very well known and popular as Schiff Bases. Recent developments on their ˇ°metallo-iminesˇ± variants have been described. The applications of Schiff bases in organic synthesis as partner in Staudinger and hetero Diels-Alder reactions, as ˇ° privilegedˇ± ligands in the organometallic complexes and as biological active Schiff intermediates/targets have been reported as well.
%K imines
%K Schiff bases
%K metallo-imines
%K salen complexes
%K bio-active-imines
%U http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/18/10/12264