Convenient syntheses of cyanuric chloride-derived NHC ligands, their Ag(i) and Au(i) complexes and antimicrobial activity

Almalioti, Foteini, MacDougall, James, Hughes, Stephen, Hasson, Mohammed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6581-0288, Jenkins, Robert, Ward, Benjamin David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1406-5940, Tizzard, Graham J., Coles, Simon J., Williams, David Wynne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7351-5131, Bamford, Sarah, Fallis, Ian Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7361-0182 and Dervisi, Athanasia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0590-5496 2013. Convenient syntheses of cyanuric chloride-derived NHC ligands, their Ag(i) and Au(i) complexes and antimicrobial activity. Dalton Transactions 42 (34) , pp. 12370-12380. 10.1039/c3dt51400e

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Abstract

Convenient syntheses of mono- and bis-imidazolium 1,3,5-triazine derivatives bearing piperidine and morpholine substituents are reported. In situ deprotonation of the mono-imidazolium salts and reaction with Ag2O or Au(tht)Cl (tht = tetrahydrothiophene) precursors affords the corresponding Ag(NHC)Cl and Au(NHC)Cl carbene complexes. In the presence of Ag(I) or Au(I) salts the bis-imidazolium pincers eliminate the imidazolium group to afford –OMe or –NMe2 substituted triazines depending on the solvent used. In solution, the Ag(I) and Au(I) complexes show a barrier to rotation about the Ctriazine–Namine bonds, with calculated ΔG≠ barriers in the region of 70 kJ mol−1. Single crystal X-ray structures of several of the proligands and their corresponding Ag(I) and Au(I) complexes were obtained. These universally reveal an extended, rigidly planar π-conjugated network between the triazine core, imidazolium/imidazolylidene substituents and exocyclic amine functions, to which the origin of the rotational barrier observed in solution is attributed. Only very weak Ntriazine–metal interactions are observed in the solid state, as indicated by small deviations of the CNHC–Ag–Cl bond angles from 180° and also supported by DFT calculations on the Ag(NHC)Cl complex (NHC = 4,6-dipiperidinyl-2-methylimidazolylidene triazine). Preliminary antimicrobial susceptibility studies against five microorganisms (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus NCTC 13277, S. aureus NCTC 6571, Pseudomonas aeruginosa NCTC 10662, Proteus mirabilis NCTC 11938 and Candida albicans ATCC 90028) show that the above triazine-based Ag-NHC complexes are active antimicrobial and antifungal agents.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Chemistry Dentistry
Subjects:	Q Science > QD Chemistry
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	1477-9226
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 12:10
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/50788

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