Showing papers in "Coordination Chemistry Reviews in 2002"

TL;DR: In this article, the photophysical properties of singlet molecular oxygen and of the photosensitizers used in its generation are examined and compared, with particular focus on its role in wastewater treatment, fine chemical synthesis, and photodynamic therapy.

TL;DR: In this article, a wide diversity of ligands now available and the variety of materials prepared from these have been discussed emphasising the influence of these variations on the solid-state structures and properties derived from them.

TL;DR: The medicinal chemistry of dicarba-closo-dodecaboranes (otherwise referred to as carboranes) has traditionally centered on their use in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A review of the investigations undertaken into platinum-IV antitumour compounds since Barnett Rosenberg first noted the activity of platinum(IV) complexes is given in this article. But the bioinorganic chemistry of these compounds has not previously been reviewed, and the purpose here is to provide insight into the requirements for the antitumours activity of these complexes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the literature on organotin(IV) complexes taking into account the biological aspects of the complexes discussed and provided useful information about the structure and stabilities of the complex formed.

TL;DR: The most relevant features of the fundamental and applied chemistry of MoS 2 are reviewed highlighting the importance of the layered nature of the solid on the optical and catalytic properties of the compounds as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The quinolones are a group of synthetic antibacterial agents structurally related to nalidixic acid as mentioned in this paper, and the absorption of these agents is lower when they are consumed simultaneously with magnesium or aluminium antacids.

TL;DR: If the potential opportunities of the Cu-NSAIDs are to be completely realized, a mechanistic understanding and delineation of their in vivo and in vitro pharmacological activity is fundamental, along with further characterization of their pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic disposition.

TL;DR: The current state of development of insulin-mimetic vanadium and zinc complexes with different coordination modes are reviewed, focusing on the preparations and coordination structures of the complexes and in vitro and in vivo evaluations as well as the possible mechanism.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the non-Cp organometallic chemistry of the ligands which have so far been explored for this purpose, commenting on the fine balance of steric and electronic properties necessary to stabilize monomeric, base-free organometall compounds of these metals.

TL;DR: In this article, a review describes recent advances in the synthesis and polymerization chemistry of organolanthanide complexes (including those of scandium and yttrium), with emphasis being placed on the complexes that show novel activity and selectivity in polymerization reactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the recent progress in the area of organotin assemblies that contain SnO bonds is presented, where various kinds of tri-, di-and monoorganotin compounds are described in terms of their preparation by methods such as hydrolysis of organ-otin halides, reactions of suitable oragnotin compounds with various kindsof substrates such as carboxylic acids, sulfonic acids, oxide transfer reagents etc.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the preparation methods, crystallochemistry and magnetic properties of one-dimensional cyanocomplexes is presented, which is mainly based on reactions in solutions containing suitable building blocks as precursors of the polymeric structure.

TL;DR: Significant progress has been made in the diverse aspects of the biological field, in particular, in relation to the role of dietary ligands on aluminium gastrointestinal absorption, excretion and tissue distribution and some progress has also been made on the chemical side relative to computer-aided speciation applications to gastrointestinal and blood plasma conditions.

TL;DR: The alternating copolymerization of carbon monoxide and olefins is a reaction that transition metal complexes, generally containing palladium, catalyze in different phase variation systems as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive treatment of the electronic excitation spectra of Mg, Zn and Ni complexes of porphyrin and porphyrazine using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is given.

TL;DR: A structurally simple and easily synthesized luminescent anion receptor has been recently developed and it displays outstanding sensitivity and selectivity toward anionic species.

TL;DR: A new classification system based on the self-assembly of such species is proposed that allows a systematic identification of suitable acceptor-donor combinations, widens the variety of design possibilities available, and reveals useful commonalities between different compounds.

TL;DR: The Pt(trpy)Cl+ derivatives exhibit long-lived photoluminescence in solution (trpy=2,2′; 6′,2″-terpyridine) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, metal complexes of 1,4-dihydroxy-benzoquinone and its homologues (H2C6X2O4) are reviewed, focusing on assembled structures based on their X-ray crystallographic structures.

TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes the experimental and theoretical advances in the elucidation of the nature, the structure, the spectral and energetic characteristics of the new types of hydrogen bonds (HB) specifically for organometallic compounds.

TL;DR: A review of the results and implications of the modeling studies reported so far can be found in this paper, where the authors have provided a great deal of insight into the structure and function of nitrile hydratase.

TL;DR: 1,2,4,5-Tetrazine and its 3,6-disubstituted derivatives exhibit a particular coordination chemistry, characterized by electron and charge transfer phenomena and by the ability of these heteroatom-rich ligands to bridge metal centers in various ways as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A wide range of chelator types bind iron(III) and of these, hexa-, tri-, and bidentate are capable of providing iron( III) with the favoured octahedral environment.

TL;DR: The ability to determine the ligand environment around vanadium (IV), usually as the vanadyl ion (VO 2 + ), has become crucial to the understanding of many biological systems as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This work has presented a review of the research on reactions of platinum(II) and (IV), gold(I) and(III), ruthenium(III) and rhodium( II) antitumoral compounds with serum albumin, and found that platinum and gold compounds are found to react with S-donors such as methionine and the Cys34 residues of albumin.

TL;DR: Talanofin, a linear tetraacetylthioglucose gold(I) phosphine complex, increased the life span of mice inoculated with P388 leukaemia, inhibited DNA polymerases and was preferentially cytotoxic to cells with altered mitochondria.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of high valent oxo iron porphyrin π-cation radical complexes is presented, and the effect of meso-substituents and pyrrole β-sub-subsituents on the electronic structure of oxo-iron porphrin π−cation radicals is discussed.

TL;DR: Cofacial and planar homo- and heteroleptic dimers and oligomers of phthalocyanine and its analogues reported to date have been reviewed in this article.

TL;DR: The synthesis, properties and structures of complexes of mono-, bi-, poly-dentate and macrocyclic seleno-and telluro-ethers with both d-block and p-block elements reported in the last 10 years are described in this article.