Synthesis and structural characterization of new oxovanadium(IV) complexes derived from azo-5-pyrazolone with prospective medical importance

• o-Hydroxy substituted arylazo-5-pyrazolones were prepared as a bidendate ligand.
• The first synthesis of azopyrazolone based oxovanadium(IV) complexes were reported.
• Ligands coordinated to the metal via oxygen atoms of hydroxyl and carbonyl groups.
• The complexes show distorted octahedral geometry according to the EPR studies.

Four novel o-hydroxy substituted aryl-(mH, Cl, Br, CH3) azo-5-pyrazolone compounds (2a–d, respectively) were synthesized as azo-group containing ligands by diazotization of aryl amines then coupled with 1-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-isopropyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one (1) and the structures were confirmed by FTIR, UV-Visible, GC-MS or ESI-LCMS and NMR spectroscopic techniques. As a result, the first synthesis of azo-5-pyrazolone based oxovanadium(IV) complexes (3a–d) was achieved by interaction of 2a–d with half equivalent of vanadyl sulphate pentahydrate in a methanolic medium with moderate to high yields (67, 74, 60, 71 for 3a–d, respectively). The resulting complexes were characterized using FTIR, UV-Visible, ESI-LCMS and EPR spectroscopic techniques as well as with thermogravimetric (TG/DTG) analysis. They have the composition [VO(L)2]·H2O; (3a–c) or [VO(L)2]·CH3OH; (3d) where LH is an azo-5-pyrazolone compound as the ligand (2a–d). The electronic spectra of the complexes are typical of oxovanadium(IV) complexes showing a low intensity band near 500 nm. Spectroscopic results have shown that azo-5-pyrazolone compounds have acted bidendate and the coordination sites are hydroxyl-substituent on the -azo phenyl-aromatic ring and the pyrazolone carbonyl-moiety. The thermal data confirm that the complexes have methanol (3a–c) or water (3d) molecule outside the coordination sphere and the complexes show similar thermogravimetric decomposition fragments which are consistent with the proposed structures. A distorted octahedral geometry has been proposed for these complexes mainly with EPR and the other spectral techniques.

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