Abstract
Synthesis and characterization of some new fluorinated bidentate-monofunctional and tetradentate-bifunctional β-ketoamines and their copper complexes are reported. The spectral data of the free Schiff bases indicate that the site of amine condensation in the unsymmetrical β-diketones is the lesser enolized acyl-oxygen and the ketoamine form is the predominant tautomer. The copper complexes of these ligands have been characterized by elemental analysis and IR spectroscopy.