We describe the synthesis and characterization of two new zinc (II) and cadmium (II) complexes of the tetradentate dissymmetric Schiff base ligand 2-((E)-(2-(2-(pyridine-2-yl)ethylthio)ethylimino)methyl)-4-bromophenol (PytBrsalH), prepared from 1-(2-pyridyl)-3-thia-5-aminopentane (pyta) and 5-bromosalicylaldehyde. The complexes were synthesized by treating an ethanolic solution of the ligand wi...

Ferritin from horse spleen was found to cause severe chromosome aberrations in cultured Chinese hamster ovary cells. Ferritin at 15 to 170 microgram/ml was clastogenic and at higher doses was cytotoxic. At comparable concentrations of protein or iron, neither apoferritin nor complexed iron was clastogenic. Sulfhydryl compounds glutathione and cysteine reduced the cytotoxic and clastogenic activ...

In the title compound, [Er(C(18)H(22.5)N(2)O(4))(2)], the Er atom is located on a twofold rotation axis and is eight-coordinated by four O atoms and four N atoms from two symmetry-related 6,6'-dimethoxy-2,2'-(ethane-1,2-diyldiiminodimethylene)diphenolate(1.5-) ligands. Due to disorder of one phenolate H atom with half-occupation, the overall charge of one tetradentate ligand is -1.5. The ligand...

in this paper, nickel oxide (nio) nanoparticles have been prepared by solid state thermal decomposition of an acyclic nickel(ii) complex (1,2-bis(2-formyl-3-methoxyphenyl)propane)nickel(ii) chloride, [nil]cl2, in an electrical furnace at optimal temperature, 450 ºc for 3.5 h. the nickel(ii) complex is obtained via solid state synthesis using nickel(ii) chloride and tetradentate o4 acyclic ligan...

Ruthenium complexes with tetradentate PNNP donor ligands demonstrate a marked change in selectivity compared to analogous bis bidentate PN Guerbet catalysis, producing mixtures of n-butanol (17 %), sec-butanol (14 %) and ethyl acetate (66 rather than the usual 90 %+ n-butanol. Tridentate PNP ruthenium such as [Ru(H)(Cl)(CO)(Ph2PCH2CH2NHCH2CH2PPh2)] also produce and, optimized conditions (120 °C...

The possibility of employing the mechanism of intramolecular electron transfer between metal and ligand centers in the valence tautomeric complexes formed as electrically neutral 2 : 1 adducts of Co(II) diketonates and redox-active tetradentate di-o-quinones, for quantum information processing, has been computationally studied using the DFT B3LYP*/6-311++G(d,p) method. It has been shown that by...

A thorough study of structural and magnetic properties was performed on a series of trinuclear and dinuclear Mn(III)/Fe(III) complexes consisting of [M(L4)(Solv)](+) and [Fe(CN)5(NO)](2-) moieties (M = Fe(III) or Mn(III), Solv = H2O or CH3OH, L4 = tetradentate salen-type ligands), in which dominant magnetic exchange is mediated by O(S)-H···O(Ph) hydrogen bonds in [M(L4)(Solv)](+)···[M(L4)(Solv)...

Vanadium complexes have been previously utilised as potent inhibitors of cysteine based phosphatases (CBPs). Herein, we present the synthesis and characterisation of two new fluorescently labelled vanadyl complexes (14 and 15) with bridged di-picolinic acid ligands. These compounds differ significantly from previous vanadyl complexes with phosphatase inhibition properties in that the metal-chel...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Zn(C(19)H(16)Cl(4)N(2)O(2))(H(2)O)], comprises two crystallographically independent mol-ecules. The geometry around the Zn(II) atoms is distorted trigonal-bipyramidal, supported by the N(2)O(2) donor atoms of the tetradentate Schiff base and a coordinating water mol-ecule. The dihedral angles between the benzene rings in the two mol-ecules are 34.10 (...

Co(II), Ni(II), and Cu(II) complexes with a tetradentate nitrogen donor [N4] macrocyclic ligand, viz. 6,15-dimethyl-8,17diphenyl-7,16-dihydrodibenzo[b,i][1.4.8.11]tetraazacyclotetradecine, were synthesized. Their structures were determined based on elemental analyses, molar conductance and magnetic susceptibility measurements, and IR, 1H-NMR (ligand) and electronic spectral studies. Based on an...