A series of sandwich-shaped complexes based on two square tetranuclear Ag(I) metallomacrocycles, [[Ag4(pprd)4]2(XF6)]-(BF4)6.8MeNO2 (pprd = 4-(2-pyridyl)pyrimidine; X = Si, Ge and Sn), in which a XF6(2-) anion is encapsulated, were prepared and their structures were characterized both in the solid state and solution.

Irradiation of 'Ru(bipy)2+ (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine) with light below 560 nm results in the formation of a charge-transfer excited state potentially capable of reducing water to dihydrogen with concomitant production of Ru(bipy)33+. The latter may be reduced by hydroxide Ru(bipy 33+ + OH = Ru(bipy)32+ + '402 + Y/2H20 to form dioxygen and regenerate the starting complex. The use of these reaction...

In this communication, a novel synthetic pathway has been applied to prepare a dual imaging agent in a single molecule. The dinuclear Re(I)/Tc(I) complex 6, namely [Re(CO)(3)(bipy){(4-PyrIDA)Tc(CO)(3)}], is the first example of a Re/Tc-based heterometallic assembly which could act as a potential bimodal Optical/SPECT probe. Interestingly, the Re(I) complex intermediate 4 exhibits significant ph...

Complexes of OsO4 with 2,2'-bipyridine (Os,2,2'-bipy),4,4'-bipyridine (Os,4,4'-bipy), 1,10-phenanthroline (Os,phe), bathophenanthroline disulfonic acid (Os,bpds) and OsO4, pyridine reagent (Os,py) were used to probe structural distortions at the junctions between right-handed B and left-handed Z DNA in supercoiled plasmids pRW751 and pPK1 (both containing (dC-dG)13 and (dC-dG)16 segments). With...

Reactions of N-diphenylphosphanylmethyl-4-aminopyridine (dppmapy) with K[Ag(CN)(2)], Ag(dca) (dca = dicyanamide), AgSCN, AgCl, AgBr or AgI gave rise to six [Ag(2)X(2)]-based (X = CN(-), dca, SCN(-), Cl(-), Br(-) and I(-)) compounds, [{Ag(2)(CN)(2)(dppmapy)}.0.5CHCl(3)](n) (1), [Ag(2)L(2)(dppmapy)(2)](n) (2: L = dca; 3: L = SCN), [{Ag(2)L(2)(dppmapy)(2)}.sol](n) (4: L = Cl, sol = 0.5MeOH.0.5CH(2...

Four new Pr(III) mononuclear complexes of formula [Pr(ntfa)3(MeOH)2] (1), [Pr(ntfa)3(bipy)2] (2), [Pr(ntfa)3(4,4?-Mt2bipy)] (3) and [Pr(ntfa)3(5,5?-Me2bipy)] (4), where ntfa = 4,4,4-trifuoro-1-(naphthalen-2-yl)butane-1,3-dionato(1-), 5,5?-Me2bipy 5,5?-dimethyl-2,2?-dipyridine, 4,4?-Mt2bipy 4,4?-dimethoxy-2,2?-dipyridine, have been synthesized structurally characterized. The display the coordina...

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) and electrospray ionisation (ESI) mass spectra of aqueous solutions of manganese(II) complexes of the monoanions of the pentadentate ligands N-methyl-N'-carboxymethyl-N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethane-1,2-diamine (mcbpen(-)) and N-benzyl-N'-carboxymethyl-N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethane-1,2-diamine (bcbpen(-)), show the presence of a mixture of closely related Mn(II)...

The present work follows a previous report describing the antibacterial activity of silver camphorimine complexes of general formula [Ag(NO3)L]. The synthesis and demonstration of the antifungal and antibacterial activity of three novel [Ag(NO3)L] complexes (named 1, 2 and 3) is herein demonstrated. This work also shows for the first time that the previously studied complexes (named 4 to 8) als...

A novel series of polypyridyl adducts, [Sm(ntfa)3(NN)] (2–4), with ntfa = 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(naphthalen-2-yl)-1,3-butanedionate, NN 2,2′-bipyridine (bipy), 4,4′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine (4,4′-Me2bipy), and 5,5′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine (5,5′-Me2bipy) were synthesized from the precursor complex [Sm(ntfa)3(MeOH)2] (1) corresponding pyridyl ligands. Single X-ray crystallography showed that complex...