A new series of manganese(II), cobalt(II), nickel(II), copper(II), zinc(II) cadmium(II) and mercury(II) complexes of N -(3-(hydroxyimino)-4-oxopentan-2-ylidene) isonicotinoylhydrazide (H 2 L) have been prepared and characterized by elemental and thermal (DTA and TGA) analyses, IR, UV-VIS, 1 H-NMR, ESR, mass spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, and conductivity. Molar conductance in DMF solution indicated that the complexes are nonelectrolytes. IR spectral data showed that the ligand is either neutral bidentate, (4), neutral tridentate, (3) and (12) or monobasic tridentate (2), (5)-(11). The ESR spectra of solid copper(II) complexes (2), (4), (11) and (12) showed g > g ⊥ > g e , indicating a distorted octahedral structure and the presence of the unpaired electron in a d (x2-y2) orbital. However, copper(II), manganese(II) and cobalt(II) complexes (3), (6) and (8), respectively, had isotropic spectra. Complexes (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), (11) and (12) demonstrated potential antiproliferative activity against the growth of human breast cancer tumor cell line MCF-7.
A.S. El-Tabl et al. / Antitumor activity of isonicotinoylhydrazide oxime ligand and its metal complexesHydrazones and their coordination compounds are well known to be biologically important and have antibacterial, antitumor and antitubercular activity [11,12]. Also, these compounds have been used as an analytical reagent [13], polymer-coating, ink pigment [14] and fluorescent material [15]. Metal complexes of a bis-hydrazone derived from isatin monohydrazone and 2-hydroxy-l-naphthaldhyde possess interesting biological properties [16,17]. Oximes and hydrazones are important classes of compounds owing to their wide applications in industry, medicine, and detection of various metal ions [18,19]. Oxime hydrazones can react with metal(II) salts to produce either mono-or bi-nuclear complexes. The keto hydrazone moiety may coordinate to metals in the keto hydrazone or deprotonated enolimine form. Such compounds containing both oxime and hydrazone groups are typically act as tridentate, mono-or biprotic ligands coordinating through the amide oxygen, imine and oxime nitrogen atom depending on the reaction conditions [20]. Metal complexes are now routinely studied as potential chemotherapeutic and diagnostic agents because they offer structural, electronic and optical versatility, which cannot be attained by organic molecules. Coordination compounds have been investigated as potential antiproliferative agents only in the last few decades. Copper is an essential cofactor in a number of enzymes and physiological processes and may be less toxic than non-essential metals. Up to now, a great variety of copper complexes have been tested as cytotoxic agents and found to have antitumor activity in several in vitro tests and a few in vivo experiments [21,22]. It should be of interest to design, synthesize, and use a new type of coordination compounds containing oxime and hydrazine functional groups. This paper describes the synthesis, spectral characterization and antitumor...