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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3244-3253 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Inorganica Chimica Acta |
| Volume | 363 |
| Issue number | 13 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 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