Crystal Structure and Thermal Decomposition Studies on Cobalt (II) Complex of 4-Chloro-2-((E)-(Isopropylimino)methyl)phenol

Abstract

, has been prepared and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. The phenomenological, kinetic and mechanistic aspects of the cobalt (II) complex have been studied by TG/DTG techniques. On the basis of the experimental data, the kinetic parameters such as activation energy, pre-exponential factor and entropy of activation were computed, and then the most probable mechanism function was estimated as g(α)=α 2 . Hence the rate controlling process at all stages of decomposition is onedimensional diffusion (Parabolic model).