This work is the first in-depth study of osmium binding to DNA and confirms the pharmacological activity of a new class of anticancer metallodrugs. We investigated the interactions between the potential biological target DNA and four osmium(II) arene complexes, of the type [(eta 6-arene)Os(LL)Cl]n+, where arene = biphenyl or p-cymene and LL = ethylenediamine, picolinate, or oxinate in an effort...

The synthesis of rhodium(I) and iridium(I) complexes of chiral MOP-phosphonite ligands is reported. The full characterisation of η(1),η(6)-(σ-P, π-arene) chelated 18VE rhodium(I) complexes reveals hemilabile binding on the arene which has been quantitatively analysed.

We present nucleophilic aromatic substitution of unsubstituted aryl chlorides via a mechanism that is catalytic in [CpRu(p-cymene)]PF6 and involves a Ru(η(6)-arylchloride) intermediate. From the spectroscopic evidence we infer that arene exchange is the rate limiting step in this process and develop several new Ru(ii) complexes that lower the activation barrier to arene exchange.

Potassium salts of p-tert-butylcalix[6]arene p-bromophenylalanine derivative formed sizable octameric cages in the solid state that were revealed by X-ray crystallographic analysis.

In the title compound, [RuCl(C18H15P)(C26H31N2OP)](CF3O3S)·2C3H6O, the Ru(II) ion is coordinated in a three-legged piano stool, half-sandwich-type geometry by a chlorido ligand, a tri-phenyl-phosphine and a tethered η(6)-(phenyl-p-O-meth-oxy) κ(1)-P N-di-phenyl-phosphino N'-diisopropyl amidine ligand charge-balanced by a trifluormethansulfonate counter-anion. The η(6)-coordination mode of the a...