PMID- 37695678 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230926 LR - 20230926 IS - 1520-510X (Electronic) IS - 0020-1669 (Linking) VI - 62 IP - 38 DP - 2023 Sep 25 TI - Zn(II)-Coordination Complex(s) from Chiral Bisamides of L-Phenylalanine: Nanoscale-Based Biological Applications and Metallogelation. PG - 15777-15789 LID - 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02731 [doi] AB - Three 3-pyridyl-containing small organic bisamide molecules attached with innocent L-phenylalanine (PHE) side chain as building blocks and positional isomeric toluoyl terminals (PME, MME, and OME) have rationally been designed and synthesized for developing a new series of Zn(II)-coordination complexes. One of the unique molecular frameworks, having two hydrogen bond-equipped monodentate metal-coordinating sites and biologically potent chiral PHE moiety, was combined with Zn(II) halide salts under various conditions to produce the coordination complexes (CC1-CC7), thoroughly characterized by the single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SXRD) technique. Maintaining the similar component ratios of acquired CCs in 1:1 DMSO-water produced low-molecular weight metallogels (LMWGs) of PME/MME as envisaged from a rheology- and crystal engineering-based structural rationale. A structure-property correlation from the basis of PXRD of the bulk and xerogels and SXRD data of the isolated single crystals of reaction products clearly supports the crystal engineering-based design strategy based on which the metallogels are prepared. Hand-ground nanoscale ZnCl(2)-based coordination complex CC1 of PME was also studied for cytotoxicity (HEK-293 cell line) and anticancer activities (B16-F10 cell line) in the MTT assay. FAU - Manna, Utsab AU - Manna U AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9242-5812 AD - School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), 2A and 2B, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India. FAU - Dutta, Abhishek AU - Dutta A AD - School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), 2A and 2B, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India. FAU - Baskey, Manoj Kumar AU - Baskey MK AD - School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), 2A and 2B, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230911 PL - United States TA - Inorg Chem JT - Inorganic chemistry JID - 0366543 RN - 78185-58-7 (MME) RN - 0 (Coordination Complexes) RN - 47E5O17Y3R (Phenylalanine) RN - J41CSQ7QDS (Zinc) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Coordination Complexes/pharmacology MH - HEK293 Cells MH - Phenylalanine/pharmacology MH - Zinc EDAT- 2023/09/11 18:41 MHDA- 2023/09/26 13:42 CRDT- 2023/09/11 12:03 PHST- 2023/09/26 13:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/09/11 18:41 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/09/11 12:03 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02731 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Inorg Chem. 2023 Sep 25;62(38):15777-15789. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02731. Epub 2023 Sep 11.