Journal
JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 100, Issue 1, Pages 18-26Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2005.09.015
Keywords
Ru(II)carbonyl; orthometallation; crystal structure; emission spectra; redox properties; antimicrobial activity
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An interesting series of mononuclear organoruthenium complexes of formulation [Ru(CO)(PPh3)(2)(ap-R)] {where ap-R = -H, -Cl, -Me, -OMe, -OEt} have been synthesized from the reaction of five 2-(arylazo)phenol ligands with ruthenium(II) precursor [RuH(Cl)-(CO)(PPh3)(3)] in benzene under reflux. The 2-(arylazo)phenolate ligands behave as dianionic tridentate ligand and are coordinated to ruthenium through C, N and 0 by dissociation of the phenolic and phenyl proton at the ortho position of the phenyl ring forming two five-membered chelate rings. These complexes have been characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, H-1 NMR and UV-visible spectroscopy. In dichloromethane solution all the metal complexes exhibit characteristic metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) absorption and emission bands in the visible region. The structures of [Ru(CO)(PPh3)(2)(ap-H)] and [Ru(CO)(PPh3)(2)(ap-Cl)] have been determined by X-ray crystallography. Cyclic voltammetric data of all the complexes show a Ru-III/Ru-II oxidation and reduction Ru-II/Ru-I within the range 0.74-0.84 V and -0.38 to -0.50 V vs saturated calomel electrode (SCE) respectively. The potentials are observed with respect to the electronic nature of substituents (R) in the 2-(arylazo)phenolate ligands. Further, the free ligands and their ruthenium complexes have also been screened for their antibacterial and antifungal activities, which have shown great promise in inhibiting the growth of both Gram +ve and Gram -ve bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli and fungus Candida albicans and Aspergillus niger. These results made it desirable to delineate a comparison between free ligands and their complexes. (C) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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