Water-soluble Schiff base ligands and metal complexes: an overview considering green solvent.

The water-soluble metal complexes with Schiff base (SB) ligands are of great interest to green chemistry researchers due to their stability, cost-effectiveness, eco-friendly, electron-donating ability, and various applications. They have high potential to express their biological activity including anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, and DNA binding and cleavage. In the recent era, transition metal complexes have played a significant role in different processes such as hydrogenation, carbonylation, oxidation, reduction, epoxidation, hydrolysis, decomposition, and polymerization reactions in industry.

Potential Drugs for the Treatment of COVID-19: Synthesis, Brief History and Application.

Coronaviruses (CoVs) belong to the Betacoronavirus group, an unusually large RNA genome characterized by club-like spikes that project from their surface. An outbreak of a novel coronavirus 2019 (nCOVID-19) already showed a unique replication strategy and infection that has posed significant threat to international health and the economy around the globe. Scientists around the world are investigating few previously used clinical drugs for the treatment of COVID-19.