One of the most effective synthetic pathways to produce unsaturated compounds and polymers, meant for both industrial pharmaceutical applications, is olefin metathesis. These useful reactions are commonly promoted by ruthenium-based precatalysts, namely second-generation Grubbs’ catalyst (GII) complexes bearing a styrenyl ether ligand, referred as Hoveyda–Grubbs’ (HGII). By altering steric elec...

The insertion of ruthenium(II) into an azuliporphyrin (TPAP) has yielded carbonyl ruthenium(II) azuliporphyrin [Ru(TPAP)(CO)] featuring an equatorial CNNN set of donors. Its azulene moiety serves as the π-coordination platform to accommodate the Ru4(CO)9 cluster. This chemistry proved to be general giving rise to a series of bimetallic complexes [M(TPAP){Ru4(CO)9}] (M = Ru(CO), Ni, Pd, Pt).

Cells of Ureaplasma urealyticum that were prepared by a ruthenium red technique demonstrated an extramembranous layer of polyanions of about 15 to 30 nm in width. Application of the concanavalin A-iron dextran strain indicated that the outer surface of this layer contained glucosyl-like residues.

Ruthenium myoglobins have been prepared by the reconstitution of horse heart apomyoglobin with either ruthenium(I1) or ruthenium(II1) mesoporphyrin IX (MpIX) derivatives. The ruthenium(I1) and -(III) myoglobins (RuMb and RuMb+, respectively) contain one ruthenium porphyrin/heme binding site; the species are readily interconverted using dithionite for reduction and bromine for oxidation. RuMb bi...

a novel complex of cadmium (ii) [cdl0.5(no3)(h2o)](1), l= n,n-bis (o-hydroxyacetophenone) ethylene diamine, have been synthesized as single crystal and nano size. compound 1 in nano size was obtained under sonochemical irradiation and has been characterized by ir, 1hnmr spectroscopy, x-ray powder diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem). the gray single crystal of compound 1 has...

A series of novel chiral ruthenium(II) complexes with phenolic hydroxyl groups were synthesized and characterized. These ruthenium(II) complexes exhibited strong dual inhibition of topoisomerases I and IIα, with approximate IC50 values of 3-15 mM, which were more efficient than the widely clinically used single TopoI poison camptothecin (CPT) or TopoIIα poison etoposide (VP-16). Δ-1 and Λ-1 wit...

In the title complex, [RuSn(2)(C(10)H(14))Cl(6)(C(6)H(15)O(3)P)], the Ru-Sn bond lengths [2.5619 (3) and 2.5669 (3) Å] are about 0.3 Å shorter than the sum of the covalent Ru and Sn radii (1.46 + 1.39 = 2.85 Å), in line with other structurally characterized arene ruthenium trichlorido-stannyl derivatives. The Ru(II) atom is surrounded by a para-cymene, a triethylphosphite and two trichloridosta...

A four-electron-reduced ruthenium(ii) NADH-type complex, [Ru(bbnpH4)(CO)2Cl](PF6) (bbnpH4 = 2,2'-(4-(tert-butyl)pyridine-2,6-diyl)bis(5,10-dihydrobenzo[b][1,5]naphthyridine)), has been successfully synthesized by mixing an NAD+-type ligand, bbnp (bbnp = 2,2'-(4-(tert-butyl)pyridine-2,6-diyl)bis(benzo[b][1,5]naphthyridine)), and [Ru(CO)2Cl2] under moderate water-gas-shift reaction conditions, wh...

A novel mercury(II) ion (Hg(2+)) biosensor with electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) detection using tris(2,2'-bipyridyl) ruthenium derivatives (ruthenium complex) as labeling was developed in the prescent work. One thymine (T)-rich single-strand DNA (ssDNA) labeled with a ruthenium complex was taken as an ECL probe. When the other T-rich capture ssDNA was self-assembled onto the surface of...