- Title
- Synthesis, characterization and biological evaluation of xanthate metal complexes
- Creator
- Casa, Sandisiwe
- Subject
- Metal complexes
- Subject
- Ligands
- Date
- 2014-01
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/24250
- Identifier
- vital:62594
- Description
- Ni(II), Ag(I), Cu(II), Pd(II) and Pt(II) complexes of xanthate were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, UV‒Vis, FTIR, conductivity measurements, decomposition temperatures, and Pd(II), Pt(II) complexes and the xanthate ligands were further characterized by 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Conductivity measurements displayed that the complexes are non‒electrolytes in solution with conductivity values in the range 0.05 ‒ 18.30 μS. Generally all the xanthate ligands are soluble in water and the complexes are insoluble both in non-polar solvents except polar coordinating solvents such as DMSO and DMF. The xanthate complexes are formulated as four coordinate (tetrahedral or square planar), and six coordinate (octahedral) compounds. However, in each of the complexes xanthate acted as bidentate ligand through the two sulfur atoms. The geometries around the metal ions are completed by triphenylphosphine. The ligands and complexes were screened against two bacterial isolates to determine their antibacterial activities. Antibacterial activity of the synthesized metal complexes shows a generally increased activity in comparison with that of their respective free ligands. At a lower concentration some of the complexes did not show any activity, a good number of complexes however showed activity at a higher concentration of 40 mg/ml. The degree of activity varies with metals. Silver complex have been observed to show the highest activity of MIC value of 1.25 mg/mL with regards to antibacterial strength, although it varies with different ligands.
- Description
- Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science and Agriculture, 2014
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (110 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science and Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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