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POLYMERS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13010023
Keywords
quaternary salts; antimicrobial activity; water-soluble polymers; poly(aspartate-co-succinimide)
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- King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [RSP-2020/65]
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The synthesized water-soluble polymers containing quaternary onium salts exhibited strong antimicrobial activity. Among the tested microorganisms, Aspergillus niger and Escherichia coli showed the strongest inhibition, indicating that the new compounds have low inhibition zone diameters and minimal inhibitory concentrations.
Microbial multidrug resistance presents a real problem to human health. Therefore, water-soluble polymers based on poly(aspartate-co-succinimide) were synthesized via reaction of poly(aspartate-co-succinimide) with bis-quaternary ammonium or quaternary salts. The resultant copolymers were characterized by various techniques such as FTIR, TGA, (HNMR)-H-1, (CNMR)-C-13 and elemental microanalysis. Antimicrobial activities of the new onium salts were investigated against Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Salmonella typhi, and the fungi; Candida albicans, Aspergillus niger, Cryptococcus neoformans and Aspergillus flavus by agar diffusion method. Antimicrobial activity was studied in terms of inhibition zone diameters, in addition to the estimation of minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the prepared compounds. A. niger and E. coli were the most affected microorganisms among the tested microorganisms with an inhibition zone of 19-21 (mm) in case of biocides, (V) and (VII). The obtained results showed that the quaternary onium salts have higher activity compared to the aspartate copolymer with MIC concentrations of 25 mg/mL for (VII) and (V) and 50 mg/mL for (VI) and (IV).
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