An eco-friendly convenient approach for the synthesis of guar gum integrated copper nanoparticles: Investigation of its catalytic activity in the CN Ullmann coupling reactions and study of its anti-human kidney cancer effects

We carried out this research was in order to evaluate the potency of guar gum (GG) hydrogel to conduct CuO NPs synthesis by adopting an eco-friendly approach as well as to study its role as catalyst and in relieving cancerous cell lines. In this context, we accomplished the CuO NPs/GG synthesis by employing a simple one-step approach and identified its characters through UV–Visible (UV–Vis) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electronic microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-rays spectroscopy (EDS), elemental mapping and ICP-OES analysis. XRD and TEM results of CuO NPs/GG showed the face centered cubic (fcc) structures and predominantly spherical shaped with a size of 20–30 nm. After the characterization, the prepared CuO NPs/GG nanocatalyst was used as catalyst in the N-arylation of amines (indole and imidazoles) through C(aryl)-N chemical bond arrangement from the related aryl halides (I, Br, Cl) by Ullmann-type coupling reactions. It is worth mentioning that the novel catalyst has the potential of being recycled seven times without much change in activity. Furthermore, the anti-kidney cancer properties of CuO NPs/GG nanocomposite were assessed by MTT assay about the cytotoxicity and anti-human on normal (HUVEC) and human kidney cell lines i.e. ACHN, CaKi-2 and HEC293. The corresponding IC₅₀ values were 18.5, 17.2, and 15.6 µg/mL, respectively. The viability of malignant human kidney cell line reduced dose-dependently in the presence of the nano bio-composite. After clinical study, CuO NPs/GG nano bio-composite can be utilized as an efficient drug in the treatment of human kidney cancer in human.