The search for anticancer metal-based drugs alternative to platinum derivatives could not
exclude zinc derivatives due to the importance of this metal for the correct functioning of the …

This review covering literature reports from the beginning of this century to 2016 describes
the synthetic pathways, the antitumor activity, the structure-activity relationship and …

Platinum drugs continue to dominate medical oncology treatments but they have
shortcomings associated with their use including dose-limiting toxic side effects and …

Copper is an essential element for most aerobic organisms, with an important function as a
structural and catalytic cofactor, and in consequence, it is implicated in several biological …

Recent studies have shown that exposing antibodies or amino acids to singlet oxygen
results in the formation of ozone (or an ozone‐like oxidant) and hydrogen peroxide and that …

New first-row transition-metal compounds with the ligand norharmane (9H-Pyrido [3, 4-b]
indole; Hnor) are reported. The compounds have the general formula [M (LL)(Hnor)(NO 3) …

Three Cu (II) complexes of [Cu (L 1)(Br) 2]· CH 3 CN (1),[Cu (L 2) 2 (OAc)](PF 6)· 2C 2 H 5
OH (2), and [Cu (L 1)(L 2)](PF 6) 2 (3)(L 1= 2-(6-(pyridine-2-yl)-4-p-tolylpyridin-2-yl) pyridine …

Vanillin (vanH) is the major component of vanilla and one of the most widely used flavoring
agents. In this work the complex [Cu (phen)(van) 2] was prepared and characterized by …

A new mixed ligand copper (II)-dipeptide complex with 2-(2′-pyridyl) benzothiazole
(pbt),[Cu (Gly-L-leu)(pbt)(H 2 O)]· ClO 4 (Gly-L-leu= Glycyl-L-leucine anion) was synthesized …

A dinuclear nickel compound that features vanillin (van) and acetate (OAc) bridging
ligands,[Ni2 (μ-van) 2 (μ-OAc)(NCS) 3 (H2O)]· 5H2O 1, was synthesized and characterized …