Abstract. Electronic structures of five oxovanadium(IV) complexes with sterically crowded Schiff base ligands are optimized by using density functional theory (DFT/B3LYP) method with LANL2DZ basis set. The studied complexes are [N,N'-ethylenebis(o-(tert-butyl-p-methylsalicylaldiminato)] oxovanadium(IV) (1), [N,N'-propanediylbis(o-(tert-butyl-p-methylsalicylaldiminato)] oxovanadium(IV) (2), bis(N-methylsalicylaldiminato) oxovanadium(IV) (3), bis(N-isopropyl-o-methylsalicylaldiminato) oxovanadium(IV) (4) and bis(N-methyl-o-(tert-butyl-p-methylsalicylaldiminato) oxovanadium(IV) (5). The structural parameters and stretching frequencies were obtained for five oxovanadium(IV) complexes. The calculated structural parameters show that the vanadium(IV) center is distorted square pyramidal (dsp) for complexes (1), (2) and distorted trigonal bipyramidal (dtbp) for complexes (3), (4) and (5). The excitation energies of complexes were obtained by using time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT/B3LYP) method with LANL2DZ basis set in dichloromethane solvent. The calculated excitation energies are in a good agreement with experimental datum for oxovanadium(IV) complexes. Frontier orbital energies (ELUMO and EHOMO), global hardness (h), softness (σ) and LUMO-HOMO energy gap (DE) were calculated to predict the antidiabetic effects of complexes. According to these quantum chemical parameters, antidiabetic effect ranking of the complexes were predicted as (1) > (2) > (5) > (3) > (4).
Keywords: Density functional calculations, oxovanadium(IV) complexes, Schiff base ligands, Quantum chemical parameters
Journal Section | Natural Sciences Research Article |
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Publication Date | February 16, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 38 Issue: 1 |