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Item Synthesis of zinc-carboxylate metal-organic frameworks for the removal of emerging drug contaminant (amodiaquine) from aqueous solution(Elsevier B.V., 2018-06-27) Tella, Adedibu C.; Owalude, Samson O.; Olatunji, Sunday J.; Adimula, Vincent O.; Elaigwu, Sunday E.; Alimi, Lukman O.; Ajibade, Peter A.; Oluwafemi, Oluwatobi S.We herein report the removal of amodiaquine, an emerging drug contaminant from aqueous solution using [Zn2(fum)2(bpy)] and [Zn4O(bdc)3] (fum = fumaric acid; bpy = 4,4-bipyridine; bdc = benzene-1,4-dicarboxylate) metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as adsorbents. The adsorbents were characterized by elemental analysis, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD). Adsorption process for both adsorbents were found to follow the pseudo-first-order kinetics, and the adsorption equilibrium data fitted best into the Freundlich isotherm with the R2 values of 0.973 and 0.993 obtained for [Zn2(fum)2(bpy)] and [Zn4O(bdc)3] respectively. The maximum adsorption capacities foramodiaquine in this study were found to be 0.478 and 47.62 mg/g on the [Zn2(fum)2(bpy)] and [Zn4O(bdc)3] MOFs respectively, and were obtained at pH of 4.3 for both adsorbents. FT-IR spectroscopy analysis of the MOFs after the adsorption process showed the presence of the drug. The results of the study showed that the prepared MOFs could be used for the removal of amodiaquine from wastewater.Item Synthesis, characterization, crystal structure and antimicrobial studies of a novel Cu(II) complex based on itaconic acid and nicotinamide(Elsevier B.V., 2016-07-12) Tella, Adedibu C.; Owalude, Samson O.; Ajibade, Peter A.; Simon, Nzikahyel; Olatunji, Sunday J.; Abdelbaky, Mohammed S.M.; Garcia-Granda, SantiagoA novel complex was synthesized from Cu(II), nicotinamide and itaconic acid and is formulated as [Cu(C5H4O4)2(C6H6N2O)2(H2O)2$2(H2O)] (1). The compound was characterized by elemental analysis, FTIR spectroscopy, UV-Vis and single crystal X-ray diffraction. The complex crystallizes in the triclinic P-1 space group, with a = 7.5111(2) Å, b = 9.8529(3) Å, c = 10.5118(4) Å, a = 116.244(3), b = 90.291(3)o, g = 103.335(3)o, V = 673.81(4) Å3, Z = 1.The octahedral geometry around the copper(II) ion is of the form CuN2O4 consisting of two molecules of nicotinamide acting as monodentate ligand through the nitrogen atoms, two molecules itaconate ligand and two coordinated water molecules each coordinating through the oxygen atoms. The structure of 1 showed infinite chains build up linking the molecules together via strong O-H....O and N - H....O intermolecular hydrogen bonds generating a two dimensional network sheet along c axis. The antimicrobial study of the synthesized complex 1 was investigated and showed higher antibacterial activity against all the organisms comparing with Copper(II) nicotinamide 2 and Copper(II) itaconate 3.