Electrochemical, magnetic, catalytic and DNA cleavage studies of binuclear copper(II) complexes derived from pendant substituted tetraaza macrobicyclic compartmental ligands
摘要:
A series of macrobicyclic unsymmetrical binuclear copper(II) complexes of compartmental ligands were synthesized from the Schiff base condensation of 1,8 [N,N'-bis{(3-formyl-2-hydroxy-5-methyl)benzyl}]-1,4,8,11-tetraaza-5,5,7,12,12,14-hexa methylcyclotetradecane with diamines like 1,2-diamino ethane, 1,3-diamino propane, 1,4-diaminobutane, 1,2-diaminobenzene and 1,8-diaminonaphthalene. The complexes were characterized by elemental and spectral analysis. Electrochemical studies of the copper(II) complexes show two irreversible one-electron reduction processes around E-pc(1) = -0.70 to -1.10 V and E-pc(2) = -0.98 to -1.36 V. ESR spectra of the binuclear copper(II) complexes show a broad signal at g = 2.10 and mu(eff) values in the range 1.46-1.59 BM, which convey the presence of antiferromagnetic coupling. Cryomagnetic investigation of the binuclear complexes [Cu2L3(ClO4)](ClO4) and [Cu2L4(ClO4)](ClO4) show that the observed -2J values are 144 and 216 cm(-1), respectively. The observed initial rate ( V-in) for the catalytic hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl phosphate by the binuclear copper(II) complexes were in the range 1.8 x 10(-5) to 2.1 x 10(-5) Ms-1. The initial rate (V-in) for the catalytic oxidation of catechol to o-quinone by the binuclear copper(II) complexes were in the range 2.7 x 10(-5) to 3.5 x 10(-5) Ms-1. The copper(II) complexes have been found to promote cleavage of plasmid pBR 322 DNA from the supercoiled form I to the open circular form II. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.