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Original Articles

Synthesis, urease inhibitory activities, and molecular docking studies of two Cu(II) complexes

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Pages 3960-3968 | Received 24 Jul 2011, Accepted 11 Oct 2011, Published online: 14 Nov 2011
 

Abstract

Two mononuclear copper(II) complexes, [Cu(C4H3N2O2)2 · 4H2O] (1) and [Cu(C12H11N2O2Cl2)2] (2), were synthesized and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray analysis. The copper(II) adopts a square-planar environment in 1, while the geometry in 2 can be described as distorted square-pyramidal. Complexes 1 and 2 were evaluated for their inhibitory activities against jack bean urease in vitro and both were found to have strong inhibitory activities comparable to that of acetohydroxamic acid. A docking simulation was performed to position 2 into the jack bean urease active site to determine the probable binding conformation.

Acknowledgments

This work was financed by grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (50978208), Hubei National Science Foundation (2009CDA022), and Education Office of Hubei Province (D20091704, Q20101610).

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