Anti-leishmanial study of discrete tetrahedral zinc(ii) β-oxodithioester complexes

Abstract

We have synthesized four new oxygen/sulfur(O^S) chelate complexes, [Zn(L)2], where L represents different ligands: methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(furyl)-2-propenedithioate (L1, 1), methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(p-fluorophenyl)-2-propenedithioate (L2, 2), methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(p-chlorophenyl)-2-propenedithioate (L3, 3), and methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(p-bromophenyl)-2-propenedithioate (L4, 4). These complexes have...