Meet the editor

Dr. Abhay Nanda Srivastva currently holds a position of Head of the Department of Chemistry, Nitishwar College (B.R.A. Bihar University), Muzaffarpur. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from C.C.S. University, Meerut, India on the topic *"Physico-Chemical Studies on Binuclear Complexes of Transition Metal ions derived from Pyrimidine derivatives and Ketones and their Biological Screening."* Dr. Srivastva has approximately

seven years of teaching and research experience in chemistry. Before joining B.R.A. Bihar University, he served as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad and IEC College of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida (Affiliated unit of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India). Dr. Srivastva is continuously engaged in research-cum-academic activities with publications in journals of international repute and attending or presenting research papers, invited talks at international/national seminar, conferences, symposiums, and workshops.

Contents

A Brief Review

Stability of Metal Complexes

*and Anuradha Singh*

with Anticancer Activity

Salen and Related Ligands

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 59**

**Chapter 5 71**

**Chapter 6 83**

**Chapter 7 99**

Crystal Structure and Solid-State Properties of Metal Complexes of the Schiff Base Ligands Derived from Diacetylmonoxime:

*by Palash Mandal, Uttam Das, Kamalendu Dey and Saikat Sarkar*

*by Senthilkumar Muthaiah, Anita Bhatia and Muthukumar Kannan*

Stability Constants of Metal Complexes in Solution *by Jagvir Singh, Abhay Nanda Srivastav, Netrapal Singh* 

*Oscar Portillo, René Gutiérrez and Eduardo Brambila*

Stability of Vanadium Chalcone Complexes *by Vikas Vilas Borge and Raju M. Patil*

Chiral Mono- and α-Diimines and Their Pd(II) Complexes

*by Guadalupe Hernández, Daniela Gutiérrez, Gloria E. Moreno,* 

Schiff Bases and Their Metallic Derivatives: Highly Versatile Molecules with Biological and Abiological Perspective *by Muhammad I. Khan, Saima Gul and Murad Ali Khan*

*by Ashish K. Asatkar, Mamta Tripathi and Deepali Asatkar*
