Efficiency of Salen Functionalized Ionic Liquids and their Application towards Biological Activity

Abstract

Schiff bases were often used as chelating ligands for the stabilization of metal ions with various oxidation states. It is called privileged ligands, due to their own peculiar capacity to make a four and six coordinated salen complex to stabilize the metal ions. On the other hand, Ionic liquid (IL) also plays a key material in engineering and scientific fields. Due to their own physiochemical properties and widespread applications in different areas of research. It has been recently found that, the suitable choice and appropriate size of cation and anion can alter the geometry of ILs and it directly influenced the biological activity of ILs. Herein ionic liquid tagged new salen complexes of first row transition metals such as Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn have been synthesized successfully and characterized. The structure of synthesized salen complexes were studied by UV, FT-IR, NMR and Mass spectroscopic techniques. Metal complexes play a vital role in drug discovery since ancient times. Especially, these complexes can interact with the cell membrane and make the morphological changes in the affected site. Moreover, the efficiency of salen complexes were assessed by antimicrobial and antifungal studies. Among all the IL tagged salen complexes the Ionic liquid tagged cobalt salen complexes was very effective against the tested microorganisms.