Preparation, characterization and antimicrobial activity of chitosan–Zn complex

By Xiao-hui Wang, Yumin Du, Hui Liu. 2004

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Antimicrobial properties of chitosan and mode of action: a state of the art review. (2010, background): “Similarly chitosan-zinc (Zn) complex showed a wide spectrum of effective antimicrobial activities (Wang et al., 2004), whichwere 2–8 times and 4–16-folds higher than those of chitosan and zinc sulfate, respectively, and improved with increasing content of zinc ions.”
Synthesis and characterization of chitosan–silver nanocomposite (2012, background): “The peaks appeared at 2h values of 11.7 and 20.2 which match well with the literature values (Harish Prashanth et al. 2002; Wang et al. 2004; Kong et al. 2005).”
Effect of Nanochitosan-Based Coating With and Without Copper Loaded on Physicochemical and Bioactive Components of Fresh Strawberry Fruit (Fragaria x ananassa Duchesne) During Storage (2014, background): “On the other hand, the metalchelating property of chitosan has been used to improve the antimicrobial activity, chitosan–Ag+ complex (Yi et al. 2003; Chen et al. 2005) and chitosan–Zn2+ complex (Wang et al. 2004) are general examples.”
A Biopolymer Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Antimicrobial Agents against Plant Pathogens and Their Applications in Crop Protection (2011, background): “After chitosan binds to metal ions through nitrogen and or oxygen, the bindings are likely to leave some potential donor atoms free and these free donor atoms enhance the antimicrobial activity [148].”