Ofele and Wanzlick reported the synthesis of the first N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-metal
complexes in 1968. 1, 2 The isolation of the first free carbene by Arduengo in 1991 set the …

The well-developed synthetic chemistry of ruthenium, particularly with ammine, amine and
imine ligands, provides for many approaches to innovative new metallopharmaceuticals …

Despite the resounding success of cisplatin and closely related platinum antitumor agents, 1-
3 the movement of other transition-metal antitumor agents toward the clinic has been …

Metals doped carbon nitride (CN) is considered as a class of promising efficient catalysts for
peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation in water purification. Herein, ruthenium doped carbon …

As one of many tasks of an analytical chemistry program sponsored by the office of
Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Field Studies Branch, US Environmental Protection …

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) were fabricated using anthocyanin extracted from red
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata f. rubra), and the conditions that could maximize …

Chemotherapy is one of the main weapons in the fight against cancer. Until recently the
majority of antitumor drugs were organic compounds or natural products including alkylating …

Aprotic lithium–oxygen (Li–O2) batteries are a prominent example of ultrahigh energy
density batteries. Although Li–O2 batteries hold a great potential for large-scale …

Heavy metals have often been represented, as an uncertain entity related to renal and other
risks of toxicity. In favour of this thought there are several lines of evidence, first of all traffic …

Cancer cells develop resistance to chemotherapy, and the side effects encountered
seriously limit the effectiveness of treatments. For these reasons, the search for alternative …