Casiopeínas® is a family of copper complexes with the general formulae [Cu(N-N)(N-O)]NO3 and [Cu(N-N)(O-O)]NO3; where N-N = substituted aromatic diimine (2,2’-bipyridine (bipy) or 1,10-phenanthroline (phen)); N-O = α-aminoacidate or a peptide; and O-O = acetylacetonate (acac) or salicylaldehydate. These compounds have shown antiproliferative activity in vitro and antitumor activity in several m...

The anticancer properties of pure copper (II) acetate and copper (II) acetylacetonate, alone and loaded on functionalized sol-gel titania (TiO(2)), were determined in four different cancer cell lines (C6, RG2, B16, and U373), using increasing concentrations of these compounds. The copper complexes were loaded onto the TiO(2) network during its preparation by the solgel process. Once copper-TiO(...

As part of our interest into the bioinorganic chemistry of gallium, gallium(III) complexes of the peptide ligand N-(2-(4-imidazolyl)ethyl)pyridine-2-carboxamide (pypepH2) resembling a fragment of the metal-binding domain of bleomycins (BLMs), have been isolated. Reaction of pypepH2 with (Et4N)[GaCl4] and Ga(acac)3 [acac- is the acetylacetonate(-1) ion] affords the mononuclear complex [Ga(pypepH...

Casiopeínas® are copper complexes with the general formula [Cu(N-N)(N-O)]NO(3) and [Cu(N-N)(O-O)]NO(3) where N-N denotes a substituted bipyridine or phenanthroline, N-O indicates α-aminoacidate or peptide and O-O represents acetylacetonate or salicylaldehyde. This family of compounds has been evaluated in vitro and in vivo showing cytotoxic, genotoxic, and antineoplastic activity. The action me...

The preparation of copper(II) one-dimensional MOFs using an eco-efficient method is reported here. This method is based exclusively on using supercritical CO2 as a solvent, without the addition of any other additive or co-solvent. Neutral acetylacetonate copper complexes and two linear linkers, namely, the bidentate 4,4'-bipyridine and 4,4'-trimethylenedipyridine molecules, were reacted under c...

Copper nanoparticles prepared from copper acetylacetonate complex or acetate show significant differences in terms of reaction mechanism and further catalytic transformation oleylamine.

A series of heteroleptic titanium derivatives general formula [Ti(OiPr)2(R-acac)2] with acetylacetonate ligands modified in the internal (?- or 3-) position by different substituents (R=OAc, NO2, Me, Et, Cl, Br) has been synthesized and completely characterized liquid multinuclear NMR FTIR. The influence nature group on thermal stability complexes was studied thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) ga...