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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
The aqueous structural speciation of binary thallium-hydroxycarboxylic acid systems. Structure-chemical
S Matsia1, O Tsave1, A Hatzidimitriou2
1Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry and Advanced Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece.
Abstract:
Among transition and non-transition metals, thallium is a unique case of an element which, despite its known toxicity, provides interesting challenges through its biology and chemistry linked to diagnosis of human pathophysiologies. Poised to investigate in-depth the structural and electronic aspects of thallium involvement in physiological processes, the synthetic exploration of aqueous binary systems of Tl(I) with physiological binders from the family of hydroxycarboxylic acids (glycolic, lactic, mandelic and citric acid) was pursued in a pH-specific fashion. The isolated crystalline coordination polymers, emerging from that effort, were physicochemically characterized through elemental analysis, FT-IR, ESI-MS, 1H-/13C-NMR, and X-ray crystallography. The coordination environment of thallium in each molecular Tl(I) assembly, along with lattice dimensionality (2D3D), reflects the contributions of the ligands, collectively exemplifying interactions probed into though BVS and Hirshfeld surface analysis. The results portray a well-defined solid-state and solution profile for all species investigated, thereby providing the basis for their subsequent selection into in vitro biological studies involving the (patho)physiological cell lines 3T3-L1, Saos-2, C2C12, and MCF-7. Biotoxicity profiles, encompassing cell viability, morphology, and cell growth support clearly a concentration-, time-, and cell tissue-specific behavior for the chosen Tl(I) compounds in a structure-specific fashion. Collectively, the chemical experimental data support the biological results in formulating a structure-specific behavior for Tl(I)-hydroxycarboxylato species with respect to biotoxicity mechanisms in a (patho)physiological environment. The accrued knowledge stands as the foreground for further investigation into the relevant biological chemistry of Tl(I) and molecular technologies targeting its sequestration and removal from cellular media.
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