Investigations into some aryl substituted bis(thiosemicarbazones) and their copper complexes |
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Authors: | Liam Alsop Jonathan R Dilworth Paul S Donnelly Josephine M Peach James T Rider |
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Institution: | a Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK b Chemical Crystallography, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK c School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia |
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Abstract: | The synthesis of three bis(thiosemicarbazone) compounds formed by the reaction of benzil with either thiosemicarbazide, 4-methyl-3-thiosemicarbazide or 4-phenyl-3-thiosemicarbazide are reported. The compounds were characterised by NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and in the case of benzil bis(4-methyl-3-thiosemicarbazone) and benzil bis(4-phenyl-3-thiosemicarbazone) by X-ray crystallography. Attempts to purify benzil bis(thiosemicarbazone) and benzil bis (4-methyl-3-thiosemicarbazone) by recrystallisation resulted in the isolation of cyclised products that were characterised by X-ray crystallography. The 3 bis(thiosemicarbazone) compounds were used to synthesise both Cu(II) and Cu(I) complexes. The copper(II) complexes were formed by the reaction of the proligands with copper(II) acetate which gave neutral copper(II) complexes in which the thiosemicarbazone is doubly deprotonated, acting as a dianionic ligand. The copper(II)-benzil bis(4-phenyl-3-thiosemicarbazonato) complex was characterised by X-ray crystallography to show the copper in an essentially square planar N2S2 environment. The copper(I) complexes were synthesised by reacting the bis (thiosemicarbazone) ligands with Cu(CH3CN)4]PF6 to give cationic complexes. The copper(I)-benzil-bis(thiosemicarbazone) complex was characterised by X-ray crystallography which revealed that the complex was a dimeric dication. Each of the benzil bis(thiosemicarbazone) ligands act as a bidentate N,S donor to each copper(I) atom, forming an overall helical structure in which each copper atom is in a strongly distorted tetrahedral N2S2 environment. Electrochemical measurements show that the copper(II)-benzil bis(thiosemicarbazonato) complex undergoes a reversible reduction at biologically accessible potentials. |
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Keywords: | Copper(II) Copper(I) Bisthiosemicarbazone Electrochemistry Radiopharmaceuticals Hypoxia selective |
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