Reactivity of cu ii complexes with nox 1 2 development of no2 sensors

Abstract

The thesis is mainly focused on the design synthesis and structural investigations of Copper II complexes and their reactivity with Nitric Oxide NO as well as Nitrogen Dioxide NO2 Initially our aim was to mimic biological tyrosine nitration and to establish the role of Cu II ions For this purpose we have synthesized multi dented ligands with nitrogen and oxygen donor sites substituted phenols and their copper complexes We observed that Cu II ions catalyzed the phenol ring nitration b