Abstract

A novel chelating tridentate organic ligand, 2-Butyl-4-chloro-5-formylimidazole thiosemicarbazone(L) is synthesized and characterized by using spectroscopic techniques like elemental analysis, FT-IR, 1H and 13C NMR, UV-vis and Mass spectrometry. The free ligand is then used for the synthesis of Mn(II) complex thoroughly characterized by FT-IR, EPR and electronic spectral analysis. The complex is found to have characteristic d5 electronic spectrum and the geometry of the complex is identified as octahedron based on the g value obtained from the EPR spectrum. Both the ligand and Mn(II)L2 compounds are found to exhibit similar antimicrobial activity against the gram –ve and gram +ve bacteria

Key words: Thiosemicarbazone Manganese(II) complexes EPR spectra Antimicrobial activity