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Manganese Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis by Thermal Decomposition of ManganeseII Acetylacetonate
Published on: June 18, 2020
Manganese(II) complexes of substituted salicylaldehydes and α-diimines: Synthesis, characterization and biological
Savvas Ntanatsidis1, Spyros Perontsis1, Sofia Konstantopoulou2
1Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki GR-54124, Greece.
Abstract:
The interaction of Mn+2 with substituted salicylaldehydes (X-saloH) led to the formation of five manganese(II) complexes formulated as [Μn(X-salo)2(MeOH)2]. When the reactions took place in the presence of an α-diimine such as 2,2'-bipyridine, 1,10-phenanthroline or 2,2'-bipyridylamine, five manganese(II) complexes of the formula [Mn(X-salo)2(α-diimine)] were isolated. The characterization of the complexes was accomplished by various spectroscopic techniques and single-crystal X-ray crystallography. The antioxidant activity of the compounds was evaluated via the scavenging of 1,1-diphenyl-picrylhydrazyl, 2,2'-azinobis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) and hydroxyl free radicals. The antibacterial activity of the complexes was tested in vitro against Staphylococcus aureus and Xanthomonas campestris bacterial strains and was found moderate. Diverse techniques were employed to examine the interaction of the complexes with calf-thymus DNA which showed intercalation as the most possible interaction mode. The affinity of the complexes for bovine serum albumin was investigated by fluorescence emission spectroscopy and the binding constants were determined.
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