Abstract

Metal ions play an important role in biological systems. The importance of metal ions to essential functions of living systems and for wellbeing of living organisms is well known. Complexation reactions of α– aminobutyric acid with cadmium (II), iron (II) and zinc (II) have been studied in solution phase using paper ionophoretic technique. The present method is based upon the migration of a spot of metal ion on a paper strip at different pH values of background electrolyte containing 0.01M α -aminobutyric acid. A graph of pH against mobility was used to obtained information in the binary complexes and to calculate its stability constants. The logarithm stability constants of ML and ML2 complexes of α -aminobutyric acid were found to be (4.01 ± 0.02; 2.72 ± 0.01), (3.73 ± 0.03; 2.65 ± 0.09), (4.45 ± 0.02; 2.80 ± 0.03) for cadmium (II), iron (II) and zinc (II) complexes, respectively at ionic strength 0.1 molL-1 and a temperature of 35º C. Metal based drugs bioactivity can be increase by metal chelation, which in turn increase their absorbance and stability. Metal complexes can offer their action such as anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, antimicrobial, anticancer and ant thyroid compounds.

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