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MAIN GROUP METAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 36, Issue 3-4, Pages 123-127Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/mgmc-2013-0023
Keywords
antifungal and antibacterial activities; curcumin; metal complexes; spectral studies
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- University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India [MRP(S)-865/10-11/KLCA045/UGC-SWRO]
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Cd(II), Hg(II), Pb(II), Sn(II) and Ca(II) complexes of curcumin have been prepared and characterized on the basis of their analytical, spectral and conductance data. In all the complexes, curcumin behaved as a monobasic bidentate ligand in which the intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded enolic proton is replaced by the metal ion. The antifungal (with Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus heteromorphus and Penicillium verruculosum) and antibacterial (with Bacillus cereus) studies reveal that metal complexation considerably increased the activity of curcumin, and among the complexes, Sn(II) complex exhibited maximum activity except for A. flavus where Hg(II) complex is more active.
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