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Synthesis, crystal structure, and catechol oxidase activity of a di-nuclear paddle-wheel Cu (II) carboxylate complex

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A dinuclear copper (II) complex, Cu2 (RCOO)4(L)2 (1) while [RCOO = benzoate, L = 2-amino-3-chloro-5-trifluoro methyl pyridine], with square pyramidal geometry with four carboxylate bridged groups has been reported. This dinuclear copper (II) unit (with the most robust, frequently occurring paddle wheel structure) was characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, IR, UV, CV, TGA, and EPR studies. It exhibits catechol oxidase activity in methanol medium and the catecholase activity was monitored by the UV–Vis spectroscopy. The kinetic parameters have been determined by using Michaelis–Menten equation which shows that the complex is an efficient catalyst with very high turnover number. Preliminary mechanistic investigation of the catalytic behavior was established with the help of ESI–MS spectra.

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The corresponding.CIF files are available in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD); for complex 1, the CCDC number is 2,269,299.

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SKD gratefully acknowledge the Higher Education department, West Bengal, for funding the instrumental facilities to the SKBU. We are gratefully thankful to Dr. Rajat Saha of Kazi Nazrul University, WB, India, for his assistance.

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This work was financially supported by the WB-DST (Project Memo No 746 (Sanc)/ST/P. S&T/15G dt. 22.11.2016.). We acknowledge the WB-DST fellowship (partial) and SVMM fellowship (partial) to P. C. and the INSPIER fellowship to A.C. (Ref. No. DST/INSPIRE Fellowship/2017/IF170767 dt. 04.07.2018) was funded by DST, New Delhi.

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. PC and AC contributed equally. Complex preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Priyanka Chakraborty and Abhishikta Chatterjee. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Priyanka Chakraborty and Abhishikta Chatterjee and all authors commented on draft versions of the manuscript. Methodology, formal analysis, and visualization were performed by Priyanka Chakraborty and Abhishikta Chatterjee. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Chakraborty, P., Chatterjee, A., Mandal, R. et al. Synthesis, crystal structure, and catechol oxidase activity of a di-nuclear paddle-wheel Cu (II) carboxylate complex. Struct Chem 35, 791–799 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-023-02225-w

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