Milan Vraneša,
Aleksandar Tot
*a,
Jasenka Ćosićb,
Snežana Papovića,
Jovana Panića,
Slobodan Gadžurić
a,
Nenad Janković
c and
Karolina Vrandečićb
aFaculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Enviromental Protection, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia. E-mail: aleksandar.tot@dh.uns.ac.rs; Fax: +381 21 454 065; Tel: +381 21 4852744
bFaculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences in Osijek, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek, Vladimira Preloga 1, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
cDepartment of Chemistry, University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Radoja Domanovića 12, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
First published on 18th June 2019
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of 23 different synthesized ionic liquids (ILs) on Fusarium culmorum and Fusarium oxysporum growth rate. The strategy of IL synthesis was a structural modification of ionic liquids through changing the polarity of imidazolium and pycolinium cations and replacing halide anions with well known antifungal anions (cinnamate, caffeate and mandelate). The findings clearly suggest that the type of alkyl chain on the cation is the most determining factor for IL toxicity. In order to examine how IL structure affects their toxicity towards Fusarium genus, lipophilic descriptor Alog
P is calculated from density functional theory and correlated with Fusarium growth rate. All these results demonstrate the high level of the interdependency of lipophilicity and toxicity for investigated ILs towards the Fusarium genus. The data collected in this research suggest that the inhibitory influence of ILs is more pronounced in the case of F. oxysporum.
Within the last decade, ionic liquids (ILs, currently defined as salts melting below 100 °C) have been studied for a various number of applications where reduced toxicity is demanded.9,10 The main reason to favor ionic liquids as green solvents was low vapor pressure leading to insignificant environmental impact on air.11–13 However, with rise of scientific interest in ILs, their environmental friendly potential become more and more under question.14–19 Nowadays, the established opinion about their “greenness” is that IL properties must be assessed on a case-by-case basis. According to this concept, the most promising strategy is the use of renewable resources for the synthesis of ILs. The potential of incorporation the well-known biological active ions in ionic liquids can lead to new possible applications. For example, the antimicrobial properties inherent to some ILs have been recognized as valuable tools for biocide applications, including the development of bioactive coatings against different pathogens, antiseptics, antifouling or anticancer agents.20–23 The promising field that can have operational benefits from a combination of biological activity and IL is agrochemistry.24 For instance, a hydrophobic IL form of an agrochemical could improve rain-fastness, reduce drift and the number of chemicals which need to be applied. Increased curative activity against plant pathogens might result from re-distribution into plant tissue since, in the absence of translaminar or systemic movement, a fungicide can only act on the target pathogen before it penetrates plant cell.
Additionally, the combination of active cation and anion in one IL formulation might lead to synergistic or antagonistic effects (as observed for pharmaceutically active ILs) which might even be used to overcome resistance.15,25,26 The strategy to optimize and control the antifungal activity of ILs is incorporation in their structure compounds that are already commercially proven in the treatment of fungi.27–29 With this purpose, short chain ω-phenylalcanoic/phenylalcenoic acids (mandelic, cinnamic and caffeic) were used as an anionic component in this work.
However, the complete mechanism of antifungal action for ILs remains unknown, although the most promising quantitative descriptor of antimicrobial activity currently indicates the surface activity. The molecular simulation studies of ionic liquid–biomembrane interactions show the spontaneous insertion of cations into the lipid bilayer. The insertion takes place regardless of the substituent (alkyl chain length and polarity), and it changes the structural and dynamic properties of the bilayer, which is the cause of its disruption. With a goal to examine the toxic effect of different ILs constituents, as well as to find a correlation between toxicity and structural properties, in this work, the antifungal activities of 23 synthesized ionic liquids were tested against Fusarium culmorum and Fusarium oxysporum.
In the first step, ionic liquids with halide anions were synthesized and used as starting compounds for further synthesis. The procedure was based on the reaction of SN2 substitution of adequate heterocycle with appropriate alkyl-halide or halogenated alcohols. The synthesis of 1-(3-hydroxypropyl)-3-methylimidazolium chloride was described in our previous paper,30 while 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride was purchased. For the synthesis of pycoline based ionic liquids, 0.1 mol of methyl-n-pycoline and 0.11 mol of halogenoalkane (1-bromobutane or 3-chloro-1-propanol) was dissolved in toluene in the round bottom flask. The reaction was conducted under atmospheric pressure at a temperature of 125 °C for 72 h. After the completion of reaction, toluene was removed by vacuum. Ionic liquid was washed with ethyl-acetate to remove potential unreacted starting compounds. Afterward, the remained solvents were removed using a vacuum and ILs were stored under P2O5 for next 48 h.
In the next step, the chloride and bromide ionic liquids were transferred into hydroxides using ion resin Amberlite IRN 78. The aqueous solution of ionic liquids was mixed with an appropriate amount of ion resin under stirring. The ion exchange reaction was performed until a negative reaction on halide ions was achieved using spot test with AgNO3.
In the final stage of synthesis, imidazolium or pycolinium hydroxides were slowly titrated by addition of aqueous solutions of mandelic, caffeic or cinnamic acid until inflection point was reached. After reaching the equimolar ratio of starting compounds, water was removed using vacuum under mild conditions (temperature was less than 50 °C). The synthesized ionic liquids were stored under vacuum with P2O5 for the next 72 h. Water content was determined by the Karl-Fischer coulometric titration and was found to be less than 240 ppm.
Obtained ILs (structures presented in Fig. 1 and Table S2†) were analyzed by MS, NMR and IR spectroscopy to determine their structure and purity, and the assignations are presented in ESI Fig. S1–S63.† The assignation for [OHC3mim][Cl] and [bmim][Cl] are given in literature.30,31 NMR spectra were recorded in D2O at 25 °C on a Bruker Advance III 400 MHz spectrometer. Tetramethylsilane was used as an accepted internal standard for calibrating chemical shift for 1H and 13C. 1H homodecoupling and 2D COSY method were used routinely for the assignation of the obtained NMR spectra. 13C spectra were assigned by selective decoupling technique. Mass spectrometry was performed by Waters Micromass Quattro II triple quadrupole mass spectrometer and MassLynx software for control and data processing. Electrospray ionization in the positive mode was used. The electro spray capillary was set at 3.0 kV and the cone at 20 V. The ion source temperature was set at 120 °C and the flow rates for nitrogen bath and spray were 500 l h−1 and 50 l h−1, respectively. The collision energy was 20 eV.
IL | Diameter of fungal growth (±SD) | |||||||
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48 h | 72 h | 96 h | 120 h | 144 h | 168 h | 192 h | 240 h | |
F. culmorum | ||||||||
[C4-2mpyc][Br] | 35.8 ± 3.9 | 65.0 ± 4.8 | 86.2 ± 3.3 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[C4-3mpyc][Br] | 32.8 ± 0.5 | 56.7 ± 1.5 | 75.5 ± 3.1 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[C4-4mpyc][Br] | 32.2 ± 1.7 | 55.2 ± 2.2 | 73.5 ± 1.7 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-2mpyc][Cl] | 38.2 ± 1.0 | 68.5 ± 3.1 | 88.0 ± 1.4 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-3mpyc][Cl] | 37.2 ± 2.6 | 66.5 ± 3.4 | 87.8 ± 3.3 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-4mpyc][Cl] | 38.3 ± 4.4 | 69.0 ± 5.6 | 86.5 ± 2.6 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-2mpyc][Cin] | 28.2 ± 2.5 | 51.0 ± 4.7 | 69.5 ± 6.5 | 88.0 ± 4.0 | ||||
[OHC3-3mpyc][Cin] | 25.5 ± 2.1 | 47.5 ± 2.4 | 67.0 ± 1.6 | 84.7 ± 1.3 | ||||
[OHC3-4mpyc][Cin] | 23.5 ± 1.3 | 43.8 ± 2.9 | 64.2 ± 2.2 | 85.2 ± 1.3 | ||||
[OHC3-2mpyc][Man] | 32.3 ± 3.8 | 61.8 ± 4.2 | 84.0 ± 4.1 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-3mpyc][Man] | 39.0 ± 2.7 | 67.5 ± 3.7 | 87.5 ± 2.1 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-4mpyc][Man] | 35.0 ± 1.0 | 66.0 ± 1.4 | 89.0 ± 1.5 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-2mpyc][Caf] | 40.0 ± 3.6 | 68.8 ± 3.8 | 89.5 ± 1.0 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-3mpyc][Caf] | 36.8 ± 1.0 | 67.0 ± 1.4 | 88.8 ± 1.5 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3-4mpyc][Caf] | 37.5 ± 4.1 | 65.0 ± 5.8 | 86.5 ± 5.7 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[bmim][Cl] | 18.5 ± 1.0 | 32.8 ± 2.6 | 53.5 ± 1.7 | 75.5 ± 1.7 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | |||
[bmim][Cin] | 8.5 ± 2.1 | 17.3 ± 3.5 | 26.0 ± 3.6 | 39.0 ± 3.0 | 54.7 ± 4.5 | 71.7 ± 3.5 | 83.0 ± 4.6 | |
[bmim][Man] | 29.0 ± 2.5 | 52.5 ± 2.5 | 72.5 ± 1.7 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[bmim][Caf] | 32.8 ± 5.5 | 58.2 ± 5.9 | 76.0 ± 4.9 | 88.0 ± 4.0 | ||||
[OHC3mim][Cl] | 25.7 ± 1.9 | 46.5 ± 3.9 | 71.0 ± 1.8 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3mim][Cin] | 12.2 ± 5.0 | 25.0 ± 3.5 | 39.0 ± 4.1 | 55.2 ± 5.2 | 73.5 ± 5.2 | 82.8 ± 2.6 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | |
[OHC3mim][Man] | 41.0 ± 3.2 | 78.0 ± 2.0 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
[OHC3mim][Caf] | 47.3 ± 2.2 | 76.5 ± 3.7 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
Control | 28.3 ± 2.5 | 56.5 ± 5.3 | 83.5 ± 6.2 | 90.0 ± 0.0 | ||||
F. oxysporum | ||||||||
[C4-2mpyc][Br] | 14.5 ± 1.0 | 30.0 ± 1.6 | 40.0 ± 2.2 | 55.5 ± 3.1 | 69.0 ± 2.0 | 76.2 ± 2.6 | 83.5 ± 5.0 | 87.5 ± 3.8 |
[C4-3mpyc][Br] | 15.0 ± 1.4 | 30.7 ± 2.1 | 42.3 ± 3.4 | 53.7 ± 3.0 | 59.0 ± 2.6 | 69.7 ± 4.5 | 75.0 ± 5.0 | 75.0 ± 7.7 |
[C4-4mpyc][Br] | 15.5 ± 1.0 | 30.5 ± 1.3 | 42.8 ± 5.7 | 56.8 ± 7.9 | 61.8 ± 7.9 | 72.5 ± 8.8 | 78.5 ± 5.8 | 78.5 ± 6.1 |
[OHC3-2mpyc][Cl] | 13.5 ± 1.7 | 33.7 ± 3.4 | 42.0 ± 5.0 | 56.2 ± 8.3 | 67.7 ± 10.7 | 77.0 ± 9.9 | 81.3 ± 7.8 | 88.2 ± 3.5 |
[OHC3-3mpyc][Cl] | 12.5 ± 0.6 | 37.3 ± 5.1 | 47.8 ± 8.6 | 57.7 ± 7.6 | 68.8 ± 8.4 | 75.5 ± 5.9 | 80.2 ± 4.5 | 90.0 ± 0.0 |
[OHC3-4mpyc][Cl] | 13.0 ± 1.4 | 39.0 ± 5.8 | 50.8 ± 7.1 | 62.0 ± 7.5 | 71.8 ± 6.7 | 76.8 ± 5.0 | 82.2 ± 5.9 | 90.0 ± 0.0 |
[OHC3-2mpyc][Cin] | 12.8 ± 0.9 | 28.7 ± 1.7 | 35.0 ± 5.7 | 44.7 ± 7.4 | 50.2 ± 10.1 | 55.0 ± 12.9 | 59.2 ± 13.0 | 68.3 ± 14.7 |
[OHC3-3mpyc][Cin] | 10.7 ± 1.3 | 26.2 ± 1.2 | 32.8 ± 1.7 | 49.2 ± 2.2 | 57.2 ± 1.9 | 66.5 ± 3.5 | 72.0 ± 6.2 | 81.5 ± 10.1 |
[OHC3-4mpyc][Cin] | 13.2 ± 0.5 | 25.5 ± 1.3 | 33.5 ± 2.6 | 41.8 ± 6.5 | 49.0 ± 10.1 | 56.2 ± 10.4 | 64.7 ± 13.4 | 75.2 ± 18.1 |
[OHC3-2mpyc][Man] | 12.0 ± 1.4 | 29.0 ± 0.8 | 36.2 ± 4.2 | 48.3 ± 4.6 | 55.0 ± 6.9 | 63.0 ± 7.3 | 70.8 ± 7.6 | 82.0 ± 5.7 |
[OHC3-3mpyc][Man] | 12.2 ± 0.5 | 29.0 ± 3.8 | 34.8 ± 5.2 | 45.2 ± 8.9 | 53.0 ± 11.6 | 59.5 ± 12.7 | 66.0 ± 15.1 | 76.2 ± 16.7 |
[OHC3-4mpyc][Man] | 12.3 ± 0.9 | 26.8 ± 3.1 | 32.5 ± 2.5 | 44.0 ± 6.3 | 52.0 ± 8.1 | 59.8 ± 10.6 | 67.5 ± 12.5 | 80.3 ± 14.7 |
[OHC3-2mpyc][Caf] | 10.8 ± 1.7 | 22.7 ± 2.8 | 28.5 ± 5.1 | 38.2 ± 8.7 | 45.0 ± 11.9 | 52.0 ± 14.5 | 57.7 ± 16.7 | 67.7 ± 19.0 |
[OHC3-3mpyc][Caf] | 13.7 ± 1.9 | 30.8 ± 2.9 | 40.2 ± 3.6 | 51.7 ± 5.8 | 61.2 ± 7.9 | 68.3 ± 8.3 | 73.5 ± 6.2 | 86.2 ± 7.5 |
[OHC3-4mpyc][Caf] | 13.2 ± 1.7 | 29.3 ± 2.2 | 35.0 ± 5.7 | 46.8 ± 6.2 | 55.3 ± 8.2 | 63.8 ± 10.3 | 71.8 ± 9.0 | 79.8 ± 11.8 |
[bmim][Cl] | 12.5 ± 0.6 | 20.0 ± 0.8 | 28.2 ± 2.4 | 38.0 ± 2.6 | 45.0 ± 4.1 | 54.7 ± 0.5 | 67.0 ± 3.2 | 75.2 ± 4.0 |
[bmim][Cin] | 9.2 ± 1.0 | 14.7 ± 1.3 | 19.8 ± 0.5 | 24.5 ± 0.6 | 30.7 ± 1.0 | 37.7 ± 1.7 | 41.7 ± 3.1 | 47.0 ± 3.2 |
[bmim][Man] | 13.2 ± 1.2 | 23.0 ± 2.2 | 28.7 ± 2.9 | 37.7 ± 2.0 | 48.0 ± 2.8 | 57.7 ± 2.1 | 64.7 ± 2.1 | 71.2 ± 1.7 |
[bmim][Caf] | 11.2 ± 1.0 | 17.5 ± 3.7 | 28.2 ± 3.0 | 36.7 ± 2.4 | 45.2 ± 2.9 | 56.7 ± 3.2 | 63.7 ± 3.3 | 71.5 ± 1.0 |
[OHC3mim][Cl] | 13.7 ± 0.5 | 23.0 ± 0.8 | 33.7 ± 1.7 | 43.2 ± 2.4 | 54.5 ± 2.4 | 66.2 ± 0.9 | 75.5 ± 1.3 | 81.0 ± 1.4 |
[OHC3mim][Cin] | 9.5 ± 1.3 | 15.0 ± 2.2 | 21.5 ± 0.6 | 27.2 ± 0.9 | 32.2 ± 3.3 | 38.2 ± 4.9 | 43.5 ± 5.8 | 48.5 ± 8.1 |
[OHC3mim][Man] | 13.2 ± 0.9 | 22.7 ± 2.1 | 32.2 ± 3.6 | 40.2 ± 3.2 | 50.7 ± 2.5 | 62.0 ± 1.6 | 70.7 ± 1.9 | 78.0 ± 3.6 |
[OHC3mim][Caf] | 10.2 ± 1.5 | 18.2 ± 6.2 | 25.0 ± 5.8 | 35.0 ± 4.1 | 46.5 ± 4.5 | 54.7 ± 7.7 | 62.7 ± 8.5 | 70.5 ± 7.9 |
Control | 17.0 ± 1.2 | 41.8 ± 3.9 | 53.0 ± 5.3 | 60.5 ± 3.3 | 73.0 ± 3.6 | 84.2 ± 3.3 | 88.0 ± 2.4 | 90.0 ± 0.0 |
In the case of imidazolium-based cations, ([bmim]+ and [OHC3mim]+), the caffeate and mandelate anions express similar toxic effect as chloride. On the other side, in both investigated ionic liquids based on imidazolium cations, the most prominent toxic effect express cinnamate. It is interesting to note the various effects on different Fusarium species. The addition of caffeate shows the stimulatory effect on F. culmorum growth at lower exposure time in contrast to the inhibitory effect on F. oxysporum. This effect is the most pronounced in the case of [OHC3mim]+ cation. The aforementioned hormetic effect (i.e., stimulatory effects occurring in response to low levels of exposure to agents harmful at high levels of exposure) depends both on the nature of the organism and the duration of exposure. Similar phenomena were also observed by Ranke et al.37 and Stepnowski et al.38 in their studies on the toxicity of ILs towards IPC-81 leukemia cells and HeLa cells, respectively.
From the results presented in this work, it is obvious that alkyl side chain affects the toxicity of both imidazolium and pycolinium based ionic liquids, due to the change of their polarity. The lipophilic cations are adsorbed or intercalated in the cell membrane, causing “perturbations” in the membrane. This phenomenon can be manifested by expansion or swelling, increase in fluidity, lowering of the phase transition temperature and alteration of the ion permeability of the membrane. The presented results indicate that the presence of a lipophilic butyl group leads to destabilization of the lipid double layer membrane, which can be significantly reduced through the introduction of the oxygen as a hydroxyl group in the alkyl side chain. Furthermore, from obtained results, it is suggested that the type of alkyl chain on cation ring is the most determining factor for ILs toxicity. It is obvious that imidazolium ring is far more harmful towards Fusarium species than pycolinium ring. These results are in good accordance with literature suggesting the prominent toxic effect of the imidazolium core.28,39,40
On the other hand, the radial growth measurement of the fungal colonies offers only a qualitative description of toxicity. To have an opportunity to distinguish more precisely inhibition effect of various ionic liquids on Fusarium growth it is necessary to quantify experimental results. Therefore, in this work, the growth rate was calculated as a derivation of radial growth with observed time. In literature was confirmed that this parameter could describe a quite accurately quantitative result of disc dilution method.45
To validate the correlation between two descriptors, growth rate and Alog
P, the results for all investigated ionic liquids are presented in Fig. 2. The Person's regression coefficient obtained using linear fit for F. culmorum is 0.859 and for F. oxysporum 0.836.
From Fig. 2 it can be seen a trend of increasing growth rate with lower values of Alog
P. Namely, a higher value of growth rate indicating the less inhibitory influence of an investigated ionic liquid, i.e., lower toxicity. On the other hand, the more positive values of A
log
P describes more lipophilic nature of the compound. All these results demonstrate the high level of the interdependency of lipophilicity and toxicity for investigated ionic liquids towards the Fusarium genus.
From Fig. 2 it can be seen that ionic liquids with cinnamate suppress the growth of Fusarium more than other ionic liquids, due to the highest lipophilicity. On the contrary, in the experiments with the most hydrophilic ionic liquids containing chloride anions, the growth of fungi was more rapid. The comparison between results obtained for ILs with cinnamate and caffeate indicate that the presence of –OH group in phenyl ring significantly promotes the growth of Fusarium due to increased polarity. Furthermore, the reduction of double bond strongly affects antibacterial activity, which is manifested by less toxicity of mandelates compared to cinnamates.
Comparing IL's effect on the growth of F. culmorum and F. oxysporum, it can be seen that the inhibitory influence of ionic liquids is more pronounced in the case of F. oxysporum. This result suggests that even though both fungi belong to the same genus, there are species specificity concerning interactions between ILs and cell membranes and their effect on overall fungi growth. The cell membrane of F. oxysporum is more sensitive to the presence of ionic liquids and consequently more prone to incorporate lipophilic compounds in its structure leading to disruption of cell wall and dysfunctionality of cell, leading to a smaller growth rate.
In order to better distinguish the individual effect of various cation on the growth of Fusarium, the variation of Alog
P vs. growth rate for each anion is presented in Fig. 3 and 4. As it was already mentioned in all ILs, [bmim]+ cation express the most reductive effect towards Fusarium genus, due to highest A
log
P value. On the contrary, the fastest growth of investigated fungi was obtained after treatment with imidazolium ionic liquids with hydroxypropyl side chain and the most negative A
log
P values.
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Fig. 3 The correlation between lipophilic descriptor (A![]() ![]() |
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Fig. 4 The correlation between lipophilic descriptor (A![]() ![]() |
The cations with similar values of predicted polarity [OHC3-3mpyc]+ and [OHC3-4mpyc]+ shown almost same effect on F. culmorum growth rate, and more divergent on F. oxysporum. The only exception occurs in the case of ionic liquids [OHC3-3mpyc][Caff] and [OHC3-4mpyc][Caff] which shown different values of Alog
P. The explanation for this situation can be found in optimized geometrical structures of both cations with caffeate (Fig. 5).
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Fig. 5 The optimized structures of ionic liquids along with representation of non-covalent interactions: (a) [OHC3-2mpyc][Caff], (b) [OHC3-3mpyc][Caff] and (c) [OHC3-4mpyc][Caff]. |
From Fig. 5 it can be seen that the methyl-group on position C4 influence different orientation of pycolinium cation towards caffeate anion, leading to divergent interactions than in case of methyl-group on position C3. Namely, the –COO− from caffeate is more accessible for interaction with [OHC3-3mpyc]+, leading to stronger interactions between the polar carboxyl group and cation. This cause the better shielding of –COO− a group which additionally reduce accessible hydrophilic part of the molecule. Thus, interactions between the cell membrane and lipophilic part of [OHC3-3mpyc][Caff] is more possible, leading to a smaller growth rate of F. culmorum and F. oxysporum. This observation can also be applied to [OHC3-2mpyc][Caff] which have the smallest amount of non-covalent interactions between cation and carbonyl group of caffeate.
Consequently, hydrophilic parts of [OHC3-2mpyc][Caff] are most available for interactions, reducing the possibility of incorporation of this ionic liquid in the cell membrane. As a rule, the methylation of pycoline ring on C2 position caused more hydrophilic properties of ionic liquids, i.e., lower Alog
P values comparing to other pycoline based analogs. Due to this circumstance, the faster growth rate of F. culmorum can be observed for all ionic liquids containing [OHC3-2mpyc]+ cation. The obtained results for F. oxysporum shown a more incoherent pattern.
The ionic liquids containing [OHC3-mim]+ affect the Fusarium growth in the smallest amount, due to their highest hydrophilicity. As can be seen from Fig. 3 and 4, the extreme hydrophilic substance, [OHC3-mim][Cl], reduce growth rate significantly more than their Alog
P values were predicting. Hence, these results are considered as outliers. From this observation, the proposed model cannot be applied for accurate prediction of ILs toxicity based on A
log
P value. In consequence, besides the lipophilicity based toxic interaction with membranes, the possibility of further and more specific modes of toxic action has to be taken into account in order to obtain a more precise model. Therefore, for compounds with high hydrophilicity, it is necessary to develop a new model based on the more detailed investigation.
Footnote |
† Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: MS, NMR and IR spectra of the newly synthesized ionic liquids. See DOI: 10.1039/c9ra02521a |
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