Synthesis, Characterization of a Schiff Base Ligand and Its metal complexes, Their Catalytic, Thermal and DNA Binding Features
Abstract
This work, first of all, reports the synthesis and structural elucidation of a schiff base ligand and its Co(II), Ni(II)and Mn(II) coordination compounds using various spectroscopic methods. Then, it moves on to the search of catalytic activity features of all the metal complexes, which were tested on the oxidation reactions of styrene and cyclohexene that are known to have a crucial importance in organic synthesis. The results of these reactions showed that the metal complexes especially the Cobalt complex was the most effective as catalyst, showing %70.3 yield for styrene oxidation and %50.1 yield for cyclohexene. Synthesized compounds were also searched for their thermal behaviour and similar fragmentations were observed only for the Cobalt and Manganese complexes of the ligand. Finally DNA binding studies were carried out on all the synthesized compounds and among them the Manganese complex showed the highest binding constant (Kb ) with 7.04.
Keywords
Catalysis, Coordination, DNA binding, Schiff base