We have recently developed a series of arsenic ligands based on practical synthetic strategies. Herein, three kinds bidentate with rigid linkers were selected to construct dinuclear rhombic copper(I) iodide (CuI) complexes, whose structures analyzed by X-ray crystallography. They had sufficient solubility in organic solvents, and it was confirmed that their coordination forms kept the solutions...

The crystal structure of the dinuclear arene ruthenium title complex, [Ru2(C6H5OS)(C7H7S)2(C10H14)2]BF4, shows the two Ru(II) atoms to be bridged by two benzyl-thio-pheno-late units and one 4-hy-droxy-thio-pheno-late unit, with the remaining three coordination sites of each Ru(II) atom being occupied by p-cymene ligands, completing the typical piano-stool coordination geometry. The BF4 (-) coun...

nickel (ii) and copper (ii) complexes of highly unsymmetrical tetradentate schiff base have been synthesized by the template reaction of half-units n-(1-hydroxy-2-acetonaphtone)-1-amino-2-phenyleneimine (hl) and n-(2-hydroxyacetophenone)-1-amino-2-phenyleneimine (hl1) with the glyoxalphenylhydrazone. the complexes have been characterized by elemental analyses, conductance, ir, 1h nmr and uv spe...

Copper(II) complexes of several hydroxyflavones were prepared and characterised through their physico-chemical properties. The nuclease activity of three synthesised complexes is reported. These copper(II) complexes present more nuclease activity than the ligands and the copper(II) ion.

Hybrid organic-inorganic coordination assemblies are synthesized using modified aminocarboxylic acid ligands as the structure-directing agents. The synthetic approach results in two novel dinuclear copper(II) complexes, K2[CuII(hnida)]2.2H2O (1) and K4[CuII(chnida)]2.4H2O.4MeOH (2) that assemble in the presence of suitable counterions into a densely packed hexagonal array or an open-framework s...

Reaction of a pinene-based pyridylthioamide with 1,4-dibromo-2,3-butanedione in refluxing methanol yielded a new chiral pyridylthiazole ligand L which forms a dinuclear double-stranded helicate with Cu(i) ions; this helicate has opposite helical chirality when compared with its quaterpyridine analogue.

Two new m-xylene/cyclohexane-linked bis-aspartic acid ligands, L(b) and L(c), were synthesized via Michael addition in basic aqueous solution. Their structures were characterized by elemental analysis, NMR and MS spectrometry. Both ligands react with Cu(II) and Zn(II) to form dinuclear complexes, with M2L(OH)(-) the major species in neutral/weak basic aqueous solution. To quantify the relative ...

The bacterioferritin (BFR) of Escherichia coli takes up iron in the ferrous form and stores it within its central cavity as a hydrated ferric oxide mineral. The mechanism by which oxidation of iron (II) occurs in BFR is largely unknown, but previous studies indicated that there is ferroxidase activity associated with a site capable of forming a dinuclear-iron centre within each subunit [Le Brun...

A series of thiosemicarbazone-coumarin hybrids (HL1-HL3 and H2L4) has been synthesised in 12 steps used for the preparation mono- dinuclear copper(II) complexes, namely Cu(HL1)Cl2 (1), Cu(HL2)Cl2 (2), Cu(HL3)Cl2 (3) Cu2(H2L4)Cl4 (4), isolated hydrated or solvated forms. Both organic their dicopper(II) complexes were comprehensively characterised by analytical spectroscopic techniques, i.e., ele...