Surfactants have great importance in biological and drug industries and the complexes of
metallic soaps with various ligands are used in approximately every region of national economy.
Therefore, our keen interest to study of degradation kinetics and biological importance of Cu (II) surfactants in non-aqueous and non-polar solvent benzene. Present research work has been initiated with
synthesis, systematic study of structural elucidation, thermal degradation, kinetics and biocidal activities of copper (II) sesame-soap complexes with macrocyclic nitrogen and sulphur containing donar
ligands like urea and thiourea. The thermal degradation of copper (II) sesame-soap complexes were
carried out for analysis of degradation kinetics and estimation of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters using different methods at heating rate 10 o
C min-1
. Copper (II) sesame-soap complexes of such
ligands have also been analysed against Staphylococus aureus. This research work consolidates the
synthesis of copper (II) sesame soap-urea and thiourea complexes by conventional methods and the
structure of these complexes were assigned according to elemental analysis and molecular weight determinations. IR, NMR and ESR spectral studies have also been done to understand structural aspects. The anti-microbial activities of copper (II) sesame-soap urea and thiourea complexes have been
evaluated by testing against Staphylococus aureus. The present research work includes information of
thermal analysis using TGA technique to find out their kinetic and thermodynamic parameters by using diverse equations such as Coats-Redfern equation, Horowitz-Metzger equation, Broido equation,
Piloyan–Novikova equation. Moreover, the results obtained from anti-microbial screening have been
used to analyze the anti-microbial activities of copper (II) sesame-soap urea and thiourea complexes
against gram-positive bacteria Staphylococus aureus. These results show that complexes of copper
ion co-ordinated with different nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur containing ligands, are very important in
the field of pharmaceutical chemistry due to its significant role in the inhibition activity. The study of
these complexes concludes that the synthesized complexes were found to possess appreciable bactericidal properties at different concentrations because chelation increases the anti-microbial potency.