Ruthenium Catalysis in Biological Habitats

Recent years have witnessed a considerable progress in research aimed at merging transition metal catalysis with chemical and cell biology. Therefore, crescent number of metal-catalyzed transformations been shown compatible biological media even living settings. Of the different metals used to build these biocompatible catalysts, ruthenium has demonstrated be particularly powerful, part because resulting complexes exhibit very good balance between reactivity stability. Indeed, utility promote great variety reactions biologically relevant contexts, from deprotection redox processes cycloadditions or photocatalytic transformations. Many may enable development new type tools pharmacological strategies.