Cyanoximes

Cyanoximes: Chemistry, Coordination and Organometallic Compounds and their Applications contains vast information about the use of cyanoximes as small molecules ligands in coordination, bioinorganic, and in organometallic chemistry. In addition, it presents the structural chemistry of these compounds and shows their most interesting spectroscopic properties, along with the practical aspects of their chemistry. Methods of syntheses, stereochemistry of cyanoximes ligands, their structures and properties, as well as the most interesting coordination compounds are described, as well as a broad spectrum of practical applications of both cyanoximes and their metal complexes.
These simple, low molecular weight organic molecules represent a series of new excellent ampolydentate ligands for coordination chemistry. Currently, 48 cyanoximes are known, and users will find more than two hundreds cyanoxime complexes synthesized and studied using a variety of different spectroscopic methods and X-ray analysis.

Nikolay Gerasimchuk obtained his first Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Kiev State University, Ukraine, and his second Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry from the University of Kansas, USA. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at Missouri State University, USA, where over 22 years he teaches several classes of inorganic chemistry curriculum. His research interests are synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and medical-biological applications of oxime-based ligands and their metal complexes for which he acquired 9 patents. His publications include 138 papers, two book chapters, a laboratory manual book and three editorials in special edition issues of Current Inorganic Chemistry and Molecules.