Source of materialThis compound was obtained in methanolic medium by reaction of metformin hydrochloride (2·10~3 mol) and nickel salicylate (10~3 mol). The reaction mixture was stirred during 30 minutes. Orange-yellow parallelepipedic shaped crystals were obtained by slow evaporation of this solution under ambient air pressure.
DiscussionBiguanide (imidodicarbonimidiamide) and its N-substituted derivatives are interesting ligands which form hightly coloured complexes with many transition metals [1]. On the other hand, some biguanides such as phenformin (phenylbiguanide), buformin (butylbiguanide) and metformin (iV,/V-dimethylbiguanide) were introduced as glucose-lowering agents for the treatment of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [2], Metformin which differs from other ligands in several important respects, is now accepted as the standard biguanide ligand. We have described ligand structural properties of metal complexes with metformin and Cu(II), Ni(II), Co(II) ions [3][4][5]. Moreover, Ranford & al. [6] studied transition-metal salicylate complexes with (1,10-phenanthroline). So, we have been interested to synthesize nickel(II) complexes with salicylate and metformin instead of (1,10-phenanthroline).