Triggered by the resounding success of cisplatin, the past decades have seen tremendous efforts to produce clinically beneficial analogues. The recent achievement of oxaliplatin for the treatment of colon cancer should, however, not belie the imbalance between a plethora of investigated complexes and a very small number of clinically approved platinum drugs. Strategies opening up new avenues are increasingly being sought using complexes of metals other than platinum such as ruthenium or gallium. Based on the chemical differences between these metals, the spectrum of molecular mechanisms of action and potential indications can be broadened substantially. Other approaches focus on complexes with tumour-targeting properties, thereby maximizing the impact on cancer cells and minimizing the problem of adverse side effects, and complexes with biologically active ligands.

Antitumour metal compounds: more than theme and variations

Rapid colorimetric assay for cell growth and survival in application of immunotoxicology

The Physical Chemistry of Electrolytic Solutions.

Medical Microbiology. A Guide to Microbial Infections: Pathogenesis, Immunity, Laboratory Diagnosis and Control

Before we become enmeshed with electrodes and currents and voltages, it is necessary to have some knowledge of the solution that all this electrochemistry takes place in. Here I shall concentrate on aqueous solutions. Most electrochemistry takes place in water, and although the comedian W. C. Fields may not have approved of it (‘I never drink water, fish fornicate in it’), it is the staple diet of electrochemists. We shall therefore look at water itself and then at what happens as a typical salt dissolves. Remember, however, that while water is quite exceptional in its properties, other solvents do exist. The more general points raised in this chapter are quite applicable to non-aqueous solvents.

Theory of electrolytes

Spectral, magnetic, thermal, molecular modelling, ESR studies and antimicrobial activity of (E)-3-(2-(2-hydroxybenzylidene) hydrazinyl)-3-oxo-n(thiazole-2-yl)propanamide complexes

Co(II), Cd(II), Hg(II) and U(VI)O₂ complexes of o-hydroxyacetophenone[N-(3-hydroxy-2-naphthoyl)] hydrazone: physicochemical study, thermal studies and antimicrobial activity.

Green synthesis approach for Fe (III), Cu (II), Zn (II) and Ni (II)‐Schiff base complexes, spectral, conformational, MOE‐docking and biological studies

Complexes of Ni(II), Co(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), Cd(II), Hg(II) and U(VI)O2 with 2-acetylpyridine-[N-(3-hydroxy-2-naphthoyl)] hydrazone (H2APHNH) have been prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductance, thermal (TG, DTG), spectral (1H NMR, IR, UV–Vis, ESR) and magnetic measurements. 1H NMR spectrum of the ligand suggests the presence of intramolecular hydrogen bonding. IR spectra show that H2APHNH is a bidentate, tridentate and/or tetradentate ligand. Thermal decomposition of some complexes ended with metal oxide as a final product. ESR spectra gave evidence for the proposed structure and the bonding for some Cu(II) complexes. Biological activity measurements were carried out.

Synthesis and magnetic, spectral and thermal eukaryotic DNA studies of some 2-acetylpyridine- [N-(3-hydroxy-2-naphthoyl)] hydrazone complexes

Bivalent transition metal complexes of o-hydroxyacetophenone [N-(3-hydroxy-2-naphthoyl)] hydrazone: spectroscopic, antibacterial, antifungal activity and thermogravimetric studies.

Rania Zaky

Papers

Spectral, magnetic, thermal, molecular modelling, ESR studies and antimicrobial activity of (E)-3-(2-(2-hydroxybenzylidene) hydrazinyl)-3-oxo-n(thiazole-2-yl)propanamide complexes

Co(II), Cd(II), Hg(II) and U(VI)O₂ complexes of o-hydroxyacetophenone[N-(3-hydroxy-2-naphthoyl)] hydrazone: physicochemical study, thermal studies and antimicrobial activity.

Green synthesis approach for Fe (III), Cu (II), Zn (II) and Ni (II)‐Schiff base complexes, spectral, conformational, MOE‐docking and biological studies

Synthesis and magnetic, spectral and thermal eukaryotic DNA studies of some 2-acetylpyridine- [N-(3-hydroxy-2-naphthoyl)] hydrazone complexes

Bivalent transition metal complexes of o-hydroxyacetophenone [N-(3-hydroxy-2-naphthoyl)] hydrazone: spectroscopic, antibacterial, antifungal activity and thermogravimetric studies.