ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 55, Number 3
JKCSEZ 55(3)
June 20, 2011 

The Schiff base cobalt(II) complex, bis[4-chloro-2-((E)-(isopropylimino) methyl) phenol]cobalt(II), 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).