Synthesis and Characterizations Schiff Base New and Use it as Antagonists Antibacteria

Authors:
  • Ali Faris Al-Ghezi , Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Al-Nahrain University, and A. Lect. In Iraqi ministry of Education, Thi Qar, 64016, Iraq.
  • Taghried A. Salman , Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, 10070, Iraq.

Article Information:

Published:February 27, 2026
Article Type:Original Research
Pages:2086 - 2097
Received:January 7, 2026
Accepted:February 12, 2026

Abstract:

Schiff-Piece ligands were prepared from the reaction of thiadiazoles and triazoles with new aldehydes to obtain hetero-ligands, and some theoretical measurements were made using Docking to know their effect as inhibitors of bacteria, as well as some practical measurements were made at Al-Nahrain University, and it proved that these ligands can be used as inhibitors of bacteria.

Keywords:

Synthesis; Schiff base; antagonists antibacteria.

Article :

INTRODUCTION:

E. coli, a mostly facultative anaerobic Gram-negative bacteria, colonizes the digestive tract of newborn humans and aids in the maintenance of healthy intestinal homeostasis[1]. The three main categories of E. coli strains are (i) commensal strains found in the human and animal gut (lacking specialized virulence factors), (ii) intestinal pathogenic strains (diarrheagenic), and (iii) extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) [2]  . Despite not being connected to IBD, the diarrheagenic E. coli strains have been proven to clearly enhance intestinal inflammation and pathogenesis. Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), and enteroaggregative E. coli are the six well-known intestinal pathogenic E. coli varieties. coli, enteroinvasive E. coli, and diffusely adhering E. coli[3]. These E. coli strains can induce gastrointestinal illnesses such hemorrhagic colitis and self-limiting diarrhea[3].

 

Animals that are treated for infectious illnesses and prevented from getting them were shown to have antibiotic resistance[4]. Antimicrobial usage increases the prevalence of resistance in both pathogenic and endogenous bacteria, just as it does in humans[4]. Animals can transmit resistant germs to people via direct touch as well as through animal-derived foods. Multidrug resistance is characterized as the absence of inherent bacterial resistance to three or more antimicrobial groups[5]. Due to its outer membrane barrier, E. coli is inherently resistant to therapeutic concentrations of penicillin G, the first -lactam to be used in clinical practice. Additionally, E. coli is resistant to a variety of antibiotic classes with various modes of action[6, 7] . Molecular Docking

 

The development of molecular fusion began in the early 1980s. Once these programs became available, silico methodology (a term usually used for computer-conducted experiments)[8] .has been effectively used to discover several approved drugs, including HIV-1 inhibitors. The development of drugs has progressed significantly and significantly since the use of (Silico methodology), which is currently the main approach in the discovery and development of drugs[9]. The primary purpose of molecular fusion is to attempt to determine the optimal position of an organic molecule (compound) in the protein environment. The design and development of drugs has made great progress with the help of computers, and the development of software and the availability of protein structures has helped a lot in the development and progress of this field[10].

 

The number of algorithms available for ligand-protein interactions is many and constantly increasing. This diversity in computational algorithms provides a large number of techniques to address modern drug design problems. Prediction of both the binding and affinity between ligand and protein is referred to as doking[11]. Understanding the structural determinants of the protein-ligand interaction and knowing the free energy (ΔG bind) are of great importance in the manufacture of pharmaceutical compounds, since it is a useful approach in the early stages of the drug discovery process, which helps to save time, effort and costs. Molecular docking is one of the most established methods for visualizing the interaction between a ligand and a protein and evaluating the binding mode of small molecules within the receptor binding site[11].

 

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra (1H-NMR (

NMR spectra of free ligands were recorded in DMSO-2.51. H-NMR of L1 shows the signals (ppm) at (7.5572- 7.8722), (4H, Ar-H), (1H- N=CH),) (1H, C-H-triazole), and (14.72) replace (1H, N-H). H-NMR of L2 shows the signals (ppm) at (7.5572- 7.8722), (4H, Ar-H), (1H- N=CH),) (1H, C-H-triazole), and (14.72) replace (1H, N-H) and showed (6H) at 3ppm replace to (CH3) 2-N. H-NMR of L3 shows the signals (ppm) at (7.5572- 7.8722), (4H, Ar-H), (1H,- N=CH),) (1H, C-H-triazole), and  (14.72) replace (1H, N-H) and showed (6H) at1.5ppm replace to ( CH3) 2-C and 1H at 5ppm replace to C.

 

Figure (2) showed of H-NMR SPECTRUM Ligand6

 

Figure (3) showed of H-NMR SPECTRUM Ligand 7.

 

Figure (4) showed of H-NMR SPECTRUM Ligand9.

 

H NMR spectrum of ligand shows the signals (ppm) at 13 ppm( s-H),4H at 6.9-7.50ppm replace to (C-H) aromatice,1H at 8.71ppm N=C-H and 6H at 3ppm replace to N-(CH3)2  HNMR of L2

 

H NMR spectrum of ligand shows the signals (ppm) at 13.23 ppm( s-H ),3H at 1.79ppm replace to (-CH3),1H at 8.10ppm N=C-H and 2H at 1.4-1.6 ppm replace to C=CH2

 

Fig (5) 1H-NMR spectra of the ligands (4).

 

Fig (6) 1H-NMR spectra of The ligands(8). 1-2-    FT-IR Spectra

 

Chemical Formula

υ  (C-H)

υ (N-H)

υ (CN) imine cm-1

CC υ (C-Cl)

υ (N-C)

C9H7CLN4              

2984     

2905     

1618

825 -1735

1327

 

FT-IR of the complex ligand and its complexes was carried out from the KBr tweak to its ligand and Cs-I to the complexes.  The Five bonding showed four main bands at (3100) cm-1, (2900) cm-1, (1608) cm-1, (825) cm-1, (1735) and (1327) which were attributed to (C-H), (υ H - N) imine, (C=N), (C-CL) (N-C), and movement ranges of the structure respectively, as shown in Table 1.

 

Table 1. IR frequencies (cm-1) of the compound and their metal complexes.

Chemical Formula               υ

υ (C-H)

υ (N-H)

υ (CN) imine cm-1

υ (N-C)

C-CL

C11H13N5

2900     

3100.09

1608

1327

825

 

Figure (6)IR frequencies (cm-1) of the compound and their metal complexes of L7.

 

FT-IR of the complex ligand and its complexes was carried out from the KBr tweak to its ligand and Cs-I to the complexes.  The sex bonding showed four main bands at (2984) cm-1, (2905) cm-1, (1618) cm-1, cm-1, (825) and (1735) which were attributed to (C-H), (υ H N) imine, (C=N), (C-CL) (N-C), and movement ranges of the structure respectively, as shown below in Table 2.

 

Table 2. IR frequencies (cm-1) of the compound and their metal complexes

 

Figure (7)IR frequencies (cm-1) of the compound and their metal complexes of L1.

 

FT-IR of the complex ligand and its complexes was carried out from the KBr tweak to its ligand and Cs-I to the complexes.  The sex bonding showed four main bands at (3237) cm-1, (2960) cm-1, (1617) cm-1, (1560) cm-1, (1478) and (1757) which were attributed to (C-H), (υ H = N) imine, (C=N), (C-CL) (N-C), and movement ranges of the structure respectively, as shown below in Table 3.

 

Table 3. IR frequencies (cm-1) of the compound and their metal complexes.

 

Figure (8)IR frequencies (cm-1) of the compound and their metal complexes of L3.

Chemical formula

υ (C-H)

υ (N-H)

υ (CN) imine cm-1

Bending(C-H) C=C

υ bending (N-H)

C12H14N4

2960

3237.31

1618

1735 825

1560

 

FT-IR Spectra

FT-IR Spectra FT-IR of the synthesized ligand  were carried out KBr disc to ligand and CsI for complexes. The free ligand exhibited six major bands at (2924.09) cm-1, (1608) cm-1,(1481) cm-1,(1327) cm-1, which are attributable to (υ MN), (υ SH),  (υ C=N) imine,(υ C-s-C) , (N-C), asy and structure movement bands respectively, as shown below (table1). New bands were formed attributed to the coordinated (CBr) bonds and appeared at the region (536,578,536) cm-1. This indicates that the coordinate occurred through the (N)and (S) atoms (Table 2). 

 

Fig (9) FT.IR spectrum of the ligands.

 

Table 3. IR frequencies (cm-1) of the compounds.

Chemical formula

υ  (S-H)

υ (C-S-C)

υ (CN) imine cm-1

υ (N-C)

C=C

C11H12N4S2

2960

1455

1608     

1327

1668

C12H15N3S2

2967

1560

1560

1200     

1690

 

Molecular docking

Molecular docking was conducted using AutoDock software  . The 3D crystal structures of the E.coli protein (PDB ID: 2Q85) were retrieved from the Protein Data Bank. We used the AutoDock 4.2 to study the interactions between the protein and ligands. We submitted the PDB format of the protein and ligand in preparation for docking. Protein structures uploaded in PDB format to AutoDock are automatically cleaned with all water molecules removed and hydrogen polar atoms added to the structure using MGL Tools. After that, the active sites in the crystal structures of the protein . To visualize the molecular structures, we employed Discovery Studio 2021 Client[12].

 

Molecular docking analysis

The interaction between ligand 11 and E.coli was studied using AutoDock . The complex with least binding affinity 9.11 kcal/mol  was selected for protein ligand interaction study. Fig. 1 showed the interaction between recombinant compound 11 with E.coli . The amino acids involved in catalytic activity of E.coli were determined through docking. Our docking observation suggested the involvement of TYR-125A, GLY-126A and TYR-190A residues in the formation of recombinant compound11-E.coli complex with bond length of 2.20, 2.10 and 1.77 Ao respectively. These docking results suggests that, TYR-125A, GLY-126A, and TYR-190A are critical for compound11-E.coli interaction. The surrounding hydrophobic amino acids further stabilized the complex and enhanced enzyme activity and thermo stability [13] .

 

Fig (9) : Predicted 3D and 2D  structure of compound11-E.coli complex

 

Molecular docking

Molecular docking was conducted using AutoDock software. The 3D crystal structures of the E.coli protein (PDB ID: 2Q85) were retrieved from the Protein Data Bank. We used AutoDock 4.2 to study the interactions between the protein and ligands. We submitted the PDB format of the protein and ligand in preparation for docking. Protein structures uploaded in PDB format to AutoDock are automatically cleaned with all water molecules removed and hydrogen polar atoms added to the structure using MGL Tools. After that, the active sites in the crystal structures of the protein. To visualize the molecular structures, we employed Discovery Studio 2021 Client [12, 13-19].

 

Molecular docking analysis

The molecular fusion results for the compounds were as shown in Table 4

 

Table 4 : Molecular docking results for the compounds under study

Compound NO

Lowest Binding Energy

Run

3

-7.81

21

9

-6.68

24

8

-9.11

22

7

-7.07

37

6

-8.88

29

 

The hydrogen bonds of the studied compounds were as shown in Table 5

 

Table 5: Hydrogen Bonds and Amino acids   and bond Length

Compound NO

AA

Distance H-A

7

GLN168A

ARG327A

ARG327A

2.90A

2.15A

2.83A

3

TYR125A

2.40A

9

VAL43A

ILE45A

GLN168A

PHE171A

1.93A

2.92A

2.19A

3.35A

8

TYR125A

GLY126A

TYR190A

2.20

2.10

1.77

 

As that Hydrophobic Interactions and π-Stacking were as shown in Table 6.

 

Table 6: Hydrophobic Interactions and π-Stacking

 

The associations between the compounds and the protein are shown as in table 7.

 

Table 7: Bonding of compounds with the target proton in 2D and 3D

 

The interaction between ligand 11 and E.coli was studied using AutoDock . The complex with least binding affinity 9.11 kcal/mol  was selected for protein ligand interaction study. Fig. 1 showed the interaction between recombinant compound 8 with E.coli . The amino acids involved in catalytic activity of E.coli were determined through docking. Our docking observation suggested the involvement of TYR-125A, GLY-126A and TYR-190A residues in the formation of recombinant compound11-E.coli complex with bond length of 2.20, 2.10 and 1.77 Ao respectively. These docking results suggests that, TYR-125A, GLY-126A, and TYR-190A are critical for compound11-E.coli interaction. The surrounding hydrophobic amino acids further stabilized the complex and enhanced enzyme activity and thermo stability.

 

Fig (11): Predicted 3D and 2D  structure of compound8-E.coli complex

 

Method for preparing a standard solution saturated with the prepared materials

1-A measured amount of each compound was taken at a concentration of 0.05M, and the weight was calculated according to the law of molar concentration.

2- Each ligand was dissolved in a 20ml conical boat with DMSO solvent, and the volume was completed to the end.

3- Tests of the effectiveness of these substances against bacteria were carried out at the Biotechnology Center, Al-Nahrain University

 

Table It shows the use of weights and concentrations of solutions for each ligand

no

mass

Mol/L

L3

0.264g

0.05

L4

0.206g

0.05

L6

0.206g

0.05

L7

0.215g

0.05

L8

0.214g

0.05

L9

0.244g

0.05

 

Comp. No.

Anti- bacterial Activity

E.coli

3

+

4

+

6

+

7

+

8

++

9

++

 

The antibacterial activity of the prepared compounds was studied against a type of Escherichia coli (Gram-negative bacteria) as shown in Table No. (8): -

 

Table 9: Antibacterial activity test data (inhibition area in mm) for the prepared compounds.

(+++) ; high active – inhibition zone = 20 mm , (++) :moderate active - inhibition zone =14-20 mm , (+) : slighly active - inhibition zone = 9-14 mm , (-) : inactive

 

Figure (12):- The biological effect of the compounds on Escherichia coli bacteria

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