Biomedical inorganic chemistry is a relative new research field and investigates possible applications of metal containing agents which display biological activities!,2. An important part of these studies deals with compounds that display antitumor properties. The most successful anticancer drug to date containing a transition metal is cisplatin, [Pt(NH3)2Ch]3. The bioactivity of organometallic...

A range of 1,3-di(metallocenyl)allylium salts [Mc(CH)(3)Mc'](+)[X](-) [Mc, Mc' = ferrocenyl (Fc), 2,3,4,5,1',2',3',4'-octamethylferrocen-1-yl (Fc' '), ruthenocenyl (Rc); X = BF(4), PF(6)] was synthesized by reaction of (2-lithiovinyl)metallocenes with formylmetallocenes, followed by treatment of the resulting alcohols with HX. Two salts with X = BAr'(4) [Ar' = 3,5-(CF(3))(2)C(6)H(3)] were synth...

Abstract Derivatives of fused 1,2,4-triazines containing heterocyclic and metallocene fragments were obtained by one-pot oxidative cyclization hydrazones in the presence hypervalent iodine(III) reagents. For 1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]azines, ability to activate HSF1 was investigated. The compounds shown increase degree activation. It that can be used induce Hsp70 expression decrease extent mutant HT...

50 years ago, Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the catalytic polymerization of ethylene and propylene using titanium compounds and aluminum-alkyls as co-catalysts. Polyolefins have grown to become one of the biggest of all produced polymers. New metallocene/methylaluminoxane (MAO) catalysts open the possibility to synthesize polymers with highly ...