Open Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2020, 10, 6-14 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ojic ISSN Online: 2161-7414 ISSN Print: 2161-7406 DOI: 10.4236/ojic.2020.101002 Jan. 20, 2020 6 Open Journal of Inorganic Chemistry Synthesis and Characterization of Cr(III) & Fe(II) Bis(2-Methoxybenzylidene)Biphenyl-4,4'- Diamine Complexes Younis O. Ben Amer * , Rehab N. El-Daghare, Ahmed N. Hammouda , Rashd M. El-Ferjani, Fatin M. Elmagbari Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya Abstract Bis(2-methoxybenzylidene)biphenyl-4,4'-diamine Schiff base was prepared by the reaction of benzidine and O-methoxy benzaldehyde 1:2 reaction. Two complexes of this ligand with Cr(III) and Fe(II) were prepared. All prepared compounds were analysed using elemental analysis, IR, 1 H NMR and mass spectroscopy. The formation of proposed structures, including the free ligand and complexes were confirmed. Keywords Schiff Base, Complexes, Spectroscopy, Bis(2-Methoxybenzylidene)Biphenyl-4,4'-Diamine 1. Introduction The chemistry of coordination compounds is well known and widely studied, yet many new developments are continuously taking place in this area of inorganic chemistry. The preparative work of Jorgenson, Werner and many others during the turn of the century opened up new vistas in the coordination chemistry of transition metals. It was Alfred Werner1 who systematized the subject coordina- tion chemistry, by propounding theory in 1893, for which he awarded Nobel Prize in 1913. These ideas have considerably enriched the understanding of the nature of metal-ligand bonds, structure, and chemistry of metal complexes, their stabilities and liabilities and other properties. It is now the need of time that new ligands of specified design should be synthesized, which could lead to metal complexes with special desired and possible predictable properties. The steady improvement in synthetic methodology allows us to foresee coordinating che- How to cite this paper: Amer, Y.O.B., El-Daghare, R.N., Hammouda, A.N., El- Ferjani, R.M. and Elmagbari, F.M. (2020) Synthesis and Characterization of Cr(III) & Fe(II) Bis(2-Methoxybenzylidene)Biphenyl- 4,4'-Diamine Complexes. Open Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 10, 6-14. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojic.2020.101002 Received: December 18, 2019 Accepted: January 17, 2020 Published: January 20, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access