“…The coordination of azomethine nitrogen can be deduced on the basis of the shift of the band originating from m(C=N) toward higher frequencies in the IR spectra of all of the complexes (1,571 cm -1 in fphaOEt and 1,568 cm -1 in qahaOEt; 1,608 cm -1 , 1,607 cm -1 , 1,604 cm -1 and 1,589 cm -1 in 1-4, respectively) [12,13]. Coordination of carbonyl oxygen to a metal is generally accompanied by a shift of m(C=O) to lower frequencies in the IR spectra of the complexes compared to the spectra of the free ligands [14], but in the complexes 1-4 the opposite trend was observed, which indicates that the carbonyl oxygen atom is not coordinated.…”