New cadmium chloride complexes with imidazolidine-2-thione and its derivatives: X-ray structures, solid state and solution NMR and antimicrobial activity studies

  • Mohammed I.M. Wazeer*
  • , Anvarhusein A. Isab
  • , Mohammed Fettouhi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Reactions of imidazolidine-2-thione (Imt), 1,3-diazinane-2-thione (Diaz) and 1,3-diazipane-2-thione (Diap) with cadmium(II) chloride in methanol result in the formation of 2:1 complexes. Both solid state and solution NMR, in addition to X-ray structures, confirm the exocyclic sulfur atom to be the donor in all cases. Cadmium shielding tensors and anisotropies were calculated from the solid-state NMR spectra. The X-ray structures of two complexes (NMeImt)2CdCl2 and (NEtImt)2CdCl2 reveal distorted tetrahedral geometries. Antimicrobial activity studies show that the Cd(Diap)2Cl2 complex exhibits substantial antibacterial activities compared to the corresponding Zn(II) complex.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1725-1730
Number of pages6
JournalPolyhedron
Volume26
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 May 2007

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by the KFUPM Research Committee under Project No. CY/NMR-STUDY/277.

Keywords

  • Antimicrobial activity
  • CP MAS NMR studies
  • Cadmium(II) complexes
  • Crystal structure
  • Thiones

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

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