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Curcumin-based ionic Pt(II) complexes: antioxidant and antimicrobial activity
Rossella Caligiuri1, Giuseppe Di Maio1, Nicolas Godbert1
1MAT-INLAB, LASCAMM CR-INSTM, Unità INSTM della Calabria, Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, CS, Italy. iolinda.aiello@unical.it.
Abstract:
A series of novel cationic curcumin-based Pt(II) complexes with neutral (N^N) ligands and triflate anions as counterions, [(N^N)Pt(curc)]CF3SO3, 1-4, were synthesised and fully characterised. The antioxidant radical scavenging activity of complexes 1-4 was measured spectrophotometrically using DPPH as the internal probe. Computational strategies have been exploited to ascertain the mechanism of antioxidant action of curcumin (H(curc)) and its Pt(II) complexes. Finally, compounds 1-4 were tested in vitro for their growth inhibitory activity against two bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli) by the disk diffusion technique at different Pt(II) complex solution concentrations. The effect of the complexation of H(curc) was investigated.
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