Currently only docetaxel has been approved to be used in the chemotherapy of prostate cancer and new drugs are urgent need. Salen-Mn is a novel type of synthetic reagent bionic and exerts remarkable anticancer activities. However, the effect of Salen-Mn on human prostate cancer has not been elucidated yet. In this study, we found that treatment of PC-3 and DU145 human prostate cancer cells with...

A new Mn(Salen) complex bearing an ureido group as an auxiliary that is three-dimensionally fixed by a cyclopentane ring fused to the Salen structure was developed. This compound exhibited considerably higher catalase-like activity than the original Mn(Salen), i.e., the cyclopentane-fused Mn(Salen) without the auxiliary, under near-physiological conditions.

Nitrous acid (HONO) plays pivotal roles in various metal-free as well metal-mediated routes relevant to biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and mammalian physiology. While the metastable nature of HONO hinders detailed investigations into its reactivity at a transition metal site, this report herein utilizes heteroditopic copper(II) cryptate [oC]CuII featuring proton-responsive second-coord...

We report a neutron scattering study on the tetragonal compound Sr2Cu3O4Cl2, which has two-dimensional (2D) interpenetrating CuI and CuII subsystems, each forming a S=1/2 square lattice quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet (SLQHA). The mean-field ground state is degenerate, since the intersubsystem interactions are geometrically frustrated. Magnetic neutron scattering experiments show that quantu...

Immobilization of the chiral salen-metal complex [Mn(III)(salen)(H(2)O)(2)ClO(4)] on the Keggin-type polyoxometalate (POM) skeletons leads to the isolation of POM derivatives functionalized with chiral salen-metal complexes, which represent the first examples of introducing chiral salen-metal complexes into the POM systems.

The title hydrated complex, [Cu2(C7H4O3)(C12H8N2)4](C7H5O3)2·7.5H2O, is composed of dinuclear CuII complex cations, noncoordinating 4-hy-droxy-benzoate anions and water mol-ecules of crystallization. In the dinuclear complex cation, the CuII ions are bridged by a 4-oxidobenzoate ligand and thus each metal ion is five-coordinated by two chelating 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) mol-ecules and one ani...

A series of mononuclear salen-supported gallium amido/alkoxide derivatives were prepared and structurally characterized and subsequently used as initiators in rac-lactide ring-opening polymerisation (ROP). The reaction of variously substituted salen ligands (1a-1f) with 0.5 equiv. of Ga2(NMe2)6 allowed the isolation of the corresponding (salen)Ga-NMe2 chelates (2b-2d, 2f) via an amine eliminati...

Complexes of several transition metal ions with alpha-oximinoacetoacetyl pyridine-4-phenylthiosemicarbazone (H3OAPT) have been prepared. Attempts were made to elucidate their geometries by elemental analysis, molar conductance, magnetic measurements and by some spectroscopic (IR, ESR and electronic) techniques. All the investigated metal ions form mononuclear complexes except for CuII, which fo...

The solid catalyst with high catalytic activity and enantioselectivity in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution (HKR) of epoxides was prepared by confining Co(Salen) in the nanocage of SBA-16 through reducing the pore entrance size using a silylation method. It was found that the activity of the solid catalysts increased with the number of [Co(Salen)] molecules per nanocage increasing, and the soli...

A pioneering research on a self-assembly of the magneto-anisotropic module [Re(CN)7] with the Mn(III) complexes involving Salen type (N,N′-ethylenebis(salicylideneiminate)) Schiff base (SB) ligands was performed using the known [Mn(Salen)(H2O)2]2(ClO4)2·H2O (1) and the firstly synthesized [Mn2(Salen)2OAc]PF6 (2). In the case of 1, a slow diffusion of the component solutions led to the ionic com...