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...

The purpose of this paper is to summarize mode of action of cisplatin on the tumor cells, a brief outlook on the metallocene compounds as antitumor drugs as well as the future tendencies for the use of the latter in anticancer chemotherapy. Molecular mechanisms of cisplatin interaction with DNA, DNA repair mechanisms, and cellular proteins are discussed. Molecular background of the sensitivity ...

The reactions of (eta(5) - C(5)H(5))(2)MCl(2) (M = Ti, Zr, or Hf) with mercaptoazoles (LH(2)), namely, bis(mercaptotriazoles), bis(mercap- tooxadiazoles), and bis(mercaptothiadiazoles) in 2 : 1 molar ratio, respectively, have been studied in dry tetrahydrofuran in the presence of n-butylamine and the binuclear complexes of the type [{(eta - C(5)H(5))(2) M}(2)(L)] (M = Ti/Zr/Hf) are obtained. Te...

preparation of 2-chlorobenzonitrile, and benzonitrile are reported here from the corresponding 2-chlorobenzaldehyde and benzaldehyde by the reaction of ammonium hydroxide/vpo titania, vpo bulk (ammonium metavanadate) cucr catalyst/air system in methanol. all these catalysts showed better conversions with reasonable selectivity to aromatic. the results prove that bet surface area results show vp...