Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Antitumor Studies of Transition Metal Complexes Derived from N‐(2‐Aminoethyl)‐1,3‐Propanediamine with DFT Calculations and Molecular Docking Investigation
Perihan A. Khalaf‐Alla
Abstract
New expected biologically active complexes for some of the first (Mn (II), Ni (II), Cu (II) and Zn (II)) and second (Rh (III) and Cd (II)) transitional metals rows with N‐(2‐Aminoethyl)‐1,3‐propanediamine as a ligand (AEPD)have been synthesized. All synthesized complexes were formed with 1:1 (metal: AEPD) stoichiometry except Ni (II) 1:2 (Ni: AEPD). The compounds were characterized by different analysis tools such as; elemental analysis, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), 1 H‐NMR, mass spectra, thermal analysis, electronic spectra, magnetic measurement and molar conductance techniques. AEPD ligand interacted with all metal ions as tridentate ligand by using the nitrogen atoms. On the other hand, density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been performed to confirm the optimized geometrical structures for both AEPD and its complexes. Furthermore, coordination compounds were screened for their potential antibacterial activities against six pathogenic bacteria as well as one kind of fungi in comparison to standard antibiotics by agar well diffusion method. The results show that most of the complexes exhibit antibacterial and antifungal activities against these organisms. Rh (III)‐AEPD complex exhibited the strongest antibacterial effect followed by the Cd (II) complex but as antifungal agents Cd (II) was the first and the second was Rh (III). Also, the anticancer activity was screened for these metal complexes against growth of human liver cancer HEPG2 tumor cell line and this inhibition activity of Cd (II) chelate was noticed to be more active with lowest IC 50 than that of all other synthesized complexes. Unfortunately, Mn (II) and Rh (III) chelates lacked anticancer activity. The docking active sites interactions were evaluated using the selected protein for anticancer activity. Finally, antioxidant activity was studied. Mn (AEPD) showed maximum activity followed by complex of Rh (III).