Synthesis of quercetin-iron (Fe) complex and its in silico and in vitro confirmation towards antibacterial activity.

In this study quercetin-iron complex (QFC) was synthesized and the structural characterizations such as x-ray diffraction, field emission-scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive x-ray and Brunner-Emmitt-Teller adsorption-desorption isotherm analysis revealed the crystallinity state, surface morphology and nature of the adsorbing surface with surface area value. Functional characterizations such as UV-visible spectrometric and Fourier transform infrared analysis collectively indicated the chemical changes that appeared after complex formation in terms of characteristic change in the spectrum and band position, respectively. The antibacterial activity against and has shown a dose-dependent decrease in colony count and achieved significant removal at 15 mg/ml concentration of QFC. The molecular docking study supports the therapeutic application of QFC.