Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of heterocyclic methyl substituted pyridine Schiff base transition metal complexes

Abstract

In recent years heterocyclic Schiff base metal complexes attract more attention in biological application and also showing interesting co-ordination chemistry. In this research article a novel heterocyclic methyl-substituted pyridine Schiff base transition metal complexes of Fe(III), Co(III), Cu(II), and Ni(II) have been design and synthesized by reacting metal acetate or metal salts (FeCl3, CoOAc, CuOAc, NiOAc), with substituted heterocyclic ligand. All newly synthesized metalcomplexes were characterized by spectroscopic data and screened for elemental analysis, FT-IR, ESR, Magnetic susceptibility and TGA. The Electronic spectra and magnetic susceptibility measurements indicates that square planer and octahedral geometry of these complexes also suggest their structure in which (N, O) group acts as bidentate ligand. The thermal stability, decomposition rate and thermodynamic parameters of synthesized metal complexes were calculated by Freeman Carroll method. Also the biostatistical data of antimicrobial and anti-oxidant activities of synthesized metal complexes indicates moderate to good results. Graphic abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].