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The Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of a Series of Ruthenium N-triphosPh Complexes
Published on: April 10, 2015
Theoretical study of the electronic and spectroscopic properties of some Ru(II) anticancer complexes
Adebayo A Adeniyi1, Peter A Ajibade
1Department of Chemistry, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa. pajibade@ufh.ac.za
Abstract:
DFT method has been applied to study the thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties of three Ru-based complexes. Possible reasons for the reported experimental stability of complexes 1 and 2 with bidentate chelating ligands over complex 3 have been explained using computed properties. The results show that the trend in their thermodynamic, hyperpolarizabilities, magnetizabilities and the NMR isotropic shielding agree well with many of their experimental properties which give further detail explanation to the reported differences in their stability, hydrolysis and anticancer activities. We also found out that these complexes which were originally designed as anticancer agents have high hyperpolarizabilities which suggest that they can also act as good non-linear optical (NLO) materials.
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