Designing, Synthesis, Characterization And in Vitro Screening of Metal Complexes Against The Fungus Causing Wilt Disease of Tomato

Sunita Sharma; Gaurav Varshney

Volume : III, Issue : XII, December - 2014

Designing, Synthesis, Characterization And in Vitro Screening of Metal Complexes Against The Fungus Causing Wilt Disease of Tomato

Sunita Sharma, Gaurav Varshney

Abstract :

A series of mixed ligand transition metal complexes of the type [M(P)2(B)2] were synthesized and characterized by modern methods like elemental analysis, molar conductance, magnetic susceptibility measurements, electronic spectra and IR spectroscopy. In these complexes M stands for bivalent metal ions Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II), P for picrate ion and B for 2, 2\\\\\\\' bipyridine. Spectral studies provide strong evidence in support of ligands in octahedral manner. Antifungal screening indicates that the complexes show enhanced antifungal activities as compared with parent compounds against an important multi drug resistant, soil borne fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, which attacks on tomato plants all over the world. All complexes show enhanced antifungal activities against the fungal strain.