1H, 13C NMR and UV spectroscopy studies of gold(III)-tetracyanide complex with l-cysteine, glutathione, captopril, l-methionine and dl-seleno-methionine in aqueous solution

Bassem A. Al-Maythalony, Mohamed I.M. Wazeer, Anvarhusein A. Isab

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Abstract

Auricyanide [Au(CN)4]- interaction with biologically important thiols, thioether and selenoether were carried out and monitored using 1H, 13C NMR and UV spectroscopy. These ligands include l-cysteine, glutathione, captopril, l-methionine and dl-seleno-methionine. Thiols show very strong affinity to be oxidized into the disulfide by auricyanide, which gets reduced to aurocyanide [Au(CN)2]-. l-cysteine reaction mechanism with [Au(CN)4]- was found to be dependent on reactants mole ratio. While l-methionine was completely inert toward auricyanide, dl-Se-methionine showed some reactivity with [Au(CN) 4]- after raising solution pH to 12 that facilitated cyanide exchange.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3244-3253
Number of pages10
JournalInorganica Chimica Acta
Volume363
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Oct 2010

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support by the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals for funding this work through project No. ( IN080421 ). We also thank the Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, NJ, USA for their generous gift of captopril.

Keywords

  • Au(III)-tetracyanide complexes
  • Thiols
  • UV-Vis
  • dl-seleno-methionine
  • l-methionine

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

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