In search of new metal-based anticancer compounds, Ru(III/II) complexes have deserved special attention not only because of their good antitumour activity in screening studies, but also because of their cancer-cell specific targeting properties. The need of more biological and chemical evidence in the reactivity of Ru(III/II) systems has encouraged, the synthetic, spectroscopic, structural and ...

The ternary iron(II) complex [Fe(L')(L")](PF6)3(1) as a synthetic model for the bleomycins, where L' and L" are formed from metal-mediated cyclizations of N,N'-(2-hydroxypropane-1,3-diyl)bis(pyridine-2-aldimine)(L), is synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography. In the six-coordinate iron(ii) complex, ligands L' and L" show tetradentate and bidentate chelating modes of ...

The reaction of [GeF4L2], L = dmso (Me2SO), dmf (Me2NCHO), py (pyridine), pyNO (pyridine-N-oxide), OPPh3, OPMe3, with Me3SiO3SCF3 (TMSOTf) and monodentate ligands, L, in a 1:1:1 molar ratio anhydrous CH2Cl2 formed the monocations [GeF3L3][OTf]. These rare trifluoro-germanium (IV) cations were characterised by microanalysis, IR, 1H, 19F{1H} and, where appropriate, 31P{1H} NMR spectroscopy. data ...

Pyridine, a suspected genotoxic and formaldehyde, a potent carcinogen, are present in several industrial wastewater including commercial solvent, resin and pesticide manufacturing industries. The extent of pyridine and formaldehyde toxicity in aquatic organisms is unknown. Therefore, in present study the toxicity of pyridine and formaldehyde were investigated in artificial aquatic ecosystem (mi...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(7)H(8)N(4)S, contains two independent mol-ecules with slightly different conformations; the dihedral angles between the pyridine ring and mean plane of the thio-semicarbazone unit in the two mol-ecules are 2.88 (5) and 6.30 (5)°. Inter-molecular N-H⋯N and N-H⋯S hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into layers parallel to the ab plane.

A new unsymmetrically substituted 2,2′-bipyridine ligand, 5-methyl-5′-carbomethoxy-2,2′-bipyridine (L) was isolated from the dry distillation of copper(II) complex, mono-aqua-bis(trans-5-methyl-pyridine-2-carboxylato-N,O)copper(II). The ligand fully characterized. spectroscopic and single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) studies coordination compounds with platinum(II) silver(I); cis-Pt(L)Cl2 ...

In the title compound, {[NiTb2(C14H8N2O5)4(H2O)4]·4H2O} n , the Tb(III) ion is coordinated by one water mol-ecule and seven O atoms from four 5-(pyridine-4-carboxamido)-isophthalate (L) ligands in a distorted square-anti-prismatic arrangement, while the Ni(II) ion, lying on an inversion center, is six-coordinated in an octa-hedral geometry by two pyridine N atoms, two carboxyl-ate O atoms and t...