Volume 38, Issue 3

The features of molecular and electronic structures of complex compounds derived from azopyrazolone derivatives are reviewed. Despite the wide use of metal-containing azopyrazolone dyes for more than 1.5 centuries, little information on their molecular structure is found. Our recent researches allowed the introduction of new coordination modes of azopyrazolone derivatives at complexation with metals. Together with traditional bi- and tridentate coordination, the possibility of an N pyrazolone atom to be involved in coordination was also found. As a result, polymeric or polynuclear complexes were isolated and described by X-ray analysis, NMR, EPR, IR, and UV spectroscopy. The analysis of the interatomic distances in the organic anions indicated that azopyrazolone derivatives do not undergo significant azo-hydrazo tautomeric transformations at ionization and complexation despite strong shifts of the absorption bands in their IR and UV-VIS spectra.

Data of electrophilic substitution processes proceeding into the d -metal hexacyanoferrate(II) gelatin-immobilized matrix systems when they are in contact with aqueous solutions of chlorides of d -elements have been systematized and generalized. The bibliography includes 94 references.

Variegated physicochemical routes with emerging modifications have been adopted and reported for silver nanoparticle synthesis for centuries. Nano-biotechnology aimed at the synthesis of nanomaterials, including silver nanoparticles, through utilization of biological media has acquired an auspicious role in science for human welfare. Despite recurrent nanoscale researches on physicochemical routes, coeval stages are predominated by greener methods in silver nanoparticle synthesis for the utilization of its inherent toxicity and exceedingly smaller sizes for biological and environmental applications. One of the principles of green routes for silver nanoparticle synthesis is reduction and stabilization via phytochemicals extracted from plants in a one-pot protocol of phytofunctionalization. Plants are preferred for their abundant availability, environmental non-toxicity and economical favorability and chiefly for the ease of aptness, unlike microbial pathways having tedious requirements of cellular culture maintenance conditions. The present work reviewed the most recent milestones set in the selection of types and parts of plants and optimized synthetic conditions employed in the fabrication of silver nanoparticles, in addition to quantitative and qualitative characterization. Furthermore, the use of phytofunctionalized silver nanoparticles for microbial growth inhibition and environmental remediation was also studied. Through the meticulous review of literature, potential applications were highlighted, which can provide researchers with a plethora of avenues for future investigations for remediation of the environment, in terms of both combating pathogenic microbes and environmental detoxification.