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Acidity and photolability of ruthenium salen nitrosyl and aquo complexes in aqueous solutions
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In this paper, the photochemical behavior of nitrosyl complexes Ru(salen)(NO)(OH 2 ) + in aqueous solution is described and the final photoproduct is the diaquo cation Ru III (salen ) ( OH 2 ) 2 +, for which p K a's of 5.9 and 9.1 were determined for the coordinated waters.About:
This article is published in Inorganica Chimica Acta.The article was published on 2008-06-02. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Metal salen complexes & Aquation.read more
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Metal complexes as photochemical nitric oxide precursors: Potential applications in the treatment of tumors
TL;DR: Investigations focused on photochemical methodologies to deliver therapeutic doses of NO to such targets utilizing transition metal complexes that are nitric oxide precursors are described.
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Biological activity of ruthenium nitrosyl complexes.
Elia Tfouni,Daniela R. Truzzi,Aline Cristina Tavares,Anderson J. Gomes,Leonardo Elias Figueiredo,Douglas W. Franco +5 more
TL;DR: The chemical and photochemical properties of several ruthenium amine complexes as NO-carriers in vitro and in vivo have been reviewed and these nitrosyl complexes can stimulate mice hippocampus slices, promote the lowering of blood pressure in several in vivo models, and control Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania major infections.
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Reactions of NO and nitrite with heme models and proteins.
TL;DR: An overview of the fundamental chemical properties of nitric oxide and nitrite ion in relation to the reactions with ferri- and ferroheme models and proteins potentially relevant to the roles of these species in mammalian biology is presented.
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Immobilized ruthenium complexes and aspects of their reactivity
Elia Tfouni,Fabio Gorzoni Doro,Anderson J. Gomes,Roberto Santana da Silva,Gustavo Metzker,Patricia Graça Zanichelli Benini,Douglas Wagner Franco +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe methods for the characterization of ruthenium complexes into/onto functionalized silica gel, zeolites, polymers, dendrimers, sol-gel, nano and microparticles.
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Fe in biosynthesis, translocation, and signal transduction of NO: toward bioinorganic engineering of dinitrosyl iron complexes into NO-delivery scaffolds for tissue engineering.
TL;DR: The natural utilization of the [Fe(NO)2] motif for translocation of endogenous NO and the translational development of synthetic dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNICs) for biomedical applications are discussed.
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