Abstract

Oxovanadium(IV) complexes with ligands derived from the reaction of salicylaldehyde with L-cysteine and with D- and D,L-penicillamine are prepared. The compounds are characterised by elemental analysis, spectroscopy (UV-VIS, CD, EPR), TG, DSC and magnetic susceptibility measurements (9-295 K). We discuss several aspects related to the structure of these complexes in the solid state and in solution; in particular, the possibility of forming thiazolidine complexes, and their comparison with the characterised complexes is studied by molecular mechanics and density functional theory calculations. The solution structures depend on pH and solvent, and while with L-Cys the spectroscopic results show trends similar to those of the L-Ala and L-Ser systems up to ca. pH 8-9, where thiolate coordination starts being detected, the penicillamine system is quite distinct, namely thiolate coordination occurs for pH > 6.5. In the presence of salicylaldehyde and V(IV)O the desulfydration of cysteine proceeds rapidly, but no similar reaction occurs with penicillamine, although its decomposition is also activated. The DFT calculations do not indicate any energetic basis for this distinct reactivity, which possibly results from different complexes present in the Cys and Pen systems. In the cysteine system, the N-salicylidenedehydroalanine-V(IV)O complex V is believed to form in an intermediate stage of the desulfydration. Further, addition of several nucleophiles to the cysteine reaction mixtures produce amino acid derivatives by a Michael-type base-catalysed addition, a result compatible with the formation of V. The products of these reactions were analysed by TLC and HPLC, and in some cases isolated.

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