The present article describes the synthesis, spectral, coordination and thermal aspects of N,N′-polymethylene bis(1-phenyl-3-methyl-4-trifluoroacetylimino-2-pyrazoline-5-ol)oxovanadium(IV) or copper(II) Schiff base complexes with alkyl backbones ranging from two to four carbons have been characterized on the basis of elemental analysis, magnetic moments, molar conductivity measurements, spectra (FTIR, ESR, UV-Visible, MS), VPO and thermal studies. The vapour pressure osmometry (VPO) and mass spectral studies indicate that the complexes are monomeric. An ESR study of all these complexes of VO(IV) and Cu(II) are consistent with the square pyramidal and square planar geometries of these metal ions, respectively. In addition, the kinetics and thermodynamic parameters for the different thermal decomposition steps of the complexes have been studied employing Horowitz-Metzger and Freemen-Carroll methods.