An O-Vanillin-methionine Schiff Base complex with copper(Ⅱ) has been synthesized under a mild condition. The complex has been characterized by elemental analysis, UV, FT-IR, TG-DTA and XRD. The crystal structure of the complex belongs to monoclinic, with space group C2/C, a=2.070 4(12) nm, b=1.431 9(8) nm, c=2.812 9(11) nm, β=133.15(2)°, V=6.084(5) nm 3, Z=8, D c= 0.998 Mg/m 3, F(000)=1 836, final R=0.121 8. The results revealed it is a tetranuclear copper(Ⅱ) complex.
The activity on O-2 of ligands from ovanillin and amino acid and their complexes were studied in this paper.Results showed that ligands and their complexes may inhibit the formation of O-2.Zn(Ⅱ)complexes display remarkable activity of inhibiting the formation of O-2.
