Coumarin‐tethered (benz)imidazolium salts and their silver(I) N‐heterocyclic carbene complexes: Synthesis, characterization, crystal structure and antibacterial studies

A series of new sterically modulated chlorocoumarin-substituted (benz)imidazolium salts and their bis-N-heterocyclic carbene silver(I) complexes were prepared and characterized. The complexes were prepared in good yields following the in situ deprotonation method by treating azolium salts with silver(I) oxide in the dark. All the compounds were characterized using various spectroscopic and analytical methods. Additionally, one of the benzimidazolium salts was characterized using single-crystal X-ray diffraction technique. In this salt, intermolecular π–π stacking interactions operate between benzimidazole as well as coumarin heterocyclic systems with adjacent molecules. In the preliminary antibacterial studies, the silver complexes were found more active than the corresponding salts against a panel of bacterial strains. Interestingly, the complexes displayed improved antibacterial efficacy against Escherichia coli strain, comparable with that of the standard drug ampicillin.

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