Reaction of three hexadentate ligands (L1eL3) derived from 1,4-benzoquinone bis(aminoalcohols) with diorganotin oxides (R2Sn-O)n (with R 1⁄4 Me, nBu, Ph) in 1:2 stoichiometric proportions lead to the formation of dinuclear tin compounds of the composition [(R2Sn)2(L)], wherein the five-coordinate metal centers are embedded in distorted trigonal-bipyramidal polyhedra. X-ray diffraction analysis ...

An extremely rigid NNN-donor proligand, 4,5-bis{(diphenylmethylene)amino}-2,7,9,9-tetramethylacridan, H[AIm2] was prepared in five steps starting from 5-methyl-2-aminobenzoic acid and 4-bromotoluene. Reaction of intensely orange H[AIm2] with LiCH2SiMe3 formed deep blue Li(x)[AIm2]x (x = 2 in the solid state), while reaction with [Y(CH2SiMe3)3(THF)2] (0.5 equiv.) afforded deep blue [Y(AIm2)(AIm)...

Novel Schiff base (H(2)L, 1,2-bis[(2-(2-mercaptophenylimino)methyl)phenoxy] ethane) derived from condensation of bisaldehyde and 2-aminothiophenol was prepared in a molar ratio 1:2. The ligand and its metal complexes are fully characterized with analytical and spectroscopic techniques. The metal complexes with Cr(III), Mn(II), Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II) and Th(IV) have been prepare...

The isolation of 3,6,9,12-tetraazatetradecane-l,14-diamine (linear isomer of pentaethylene­ hexamine, linpen) from a technical polyamine mixture is described. In methanol, linpen acts as a hexadentate ligand towards cadmium(II). The solid compounds [Cd(linpen)](BPh4)2 (1), [Cd(linpen)](BPh4)2-2DM SO (2) and [Cd(linpen)](BF4)2 (3) have been isolated and character­ ized by elemental analysis, spe...

Lanthanide bioprobes and bioconjugates are ideal luminescent stains in view of their low propensity to photobleaching, sharp emission lines and long excited state lifetimes permitting time-resolved detection for enhanced sensitivity. In this paper, we expand our previous work which demonstrated that self-assembled dinuclear triple-stranded helicates [Ln2(L(C2X))3] behave as excellent cell and t...

The hexaethylcyclohexaarsoxane complexes [{M(CO)3}2{c>’c/o-(C2H 5A sO)6}], M = Cr, Mo, W, 2 4 have been prepared by the reaction o f (C2H 5AsO)n with the respective metal hexacarbonyl in toluene and characterized by their IR and NM R spectroscopic data. For 2 the molec­ ular structure was established by X-ray structural analysis. The 12 atoms o f the As60 6 ring form a flattened cuboctahedron i...

To explore the displacement of Zn(2+) by Ni(2+) from within N-, S-, and O-chelate ligands, (N-(3-thiabutyl)-N'-(3-thiapentaneoate)-1,4-diazacycloheptane)zinc(II), Zn-1'-Ac, and 1,4-diazacycloheptane-1,4-diylbis(3-thiapentanoato) zinc(II), Zn-1'-Ac(2), were reacted with Ni(BF(4))(2) in a methanol solution and were found to yield, in both cases, the bright blue, hexa-coordinate Ni-1'-Ac(2) metal-...

Nuclear medicine has seen impressive growth in recent years. An important development in this field occurred through the application of new radionuclides, e.g., 89Zr (t1/2 = 78.4 h, β+ 0.396 MeV), the physical properties of which allow the use of antibodies as biological vectors for specific cancer targeting in combination with high resolution imaging by positron emission tomography (PET). The ...

To acquire essential Fe(III), bacteria produce and secrete siderophores with high affinity and selectivity for Fe(III) to mediate its uptake into the cell. Here, we show that the periplasmic binding protein CeuE of Campylobacter jejuni, which was previously thought to bind the Fe(III) complex of the hexadentate siderophore enterobactin (Kd ∼ 0.4 ± 0.1 µM), preferentially binds the Fe(III) compl...