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JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY
Volume 111, Issue 3, Pages 1763-1770Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-012-2316-4
Keywords
Antimicrobial activity; Biguanide; Chlorhexidine; Copper (II) complex
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Three new copper (II) complex compounds with chlorhexidine (CHX) as ligand have been prepared and characterized by elemental and thermogravimetrical analyses, molar conductances, infrared, and UV-Vis spectra. Chlorhexidine acts as neutral tetradentate NNNN donor, coordinating through the four imine nitrogen atoms. Based on the experimental data the following formulas have been proposed for the complex compounds: [Cu(CHX)](NO3)(2) (1), [Cu-2(CHX)Br2Cl2]center dot 4H(2)O (2), and [Cu(CHX)Cl]Cl (3). Thermal decomposition evidenced dehydration (complex 2), anionic moieties release and the ligand cleavage with chlorobenzene moieties removal for all complexes. The final residue is in all cases copper oxide. Antibacterial and antifungal activities of the complexes have been determined in vitro, by the cup-plate agar diffusion method, against Escherichia coli, Staphyloccocus aureus, and Candida albicans. The complexes present an activity comparable to that of chlorhexidine, the most active being [Cu-2(CHX)Br2Cl2]center dot 4H(2)O.
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