Kinetic analysis of thermal decomposition of some Co-complexes of three unsymmetrical <Emphasis Type="Italic">vic</Emphasis>-dioximes ligands

The thermal decomposition of three new reagent cyclohexylamine-p-tolylglyoxime (L₁H₂), tertiarybutyl amine-p-tolylglyoxime (L₂H₂) and secondary butylamine-p-tolylglyoxime (L₃H₂ and their Co-complexes were studied by both isothermal and nonisothermal methods. As expected, the complex structure of Co-complexes, different steps with different activation energies were realized in decomposition process. Model-fitting and model-free kinetic approaches were applied to nonisothermal and isothermal data. The kinetic triplet (f(α), A and E) related to nonisothermal model-fitting method can not be meaningfully compared with values obtained from isothermal method. The complex nature of the multi-step process of the studied compounds was more easily revealed using a wider temperature range in nonisothermal isoconversional method.