Worldwide research groups are searching for anticancer compounds, many of them are organometalic complexes having platinum group metals as their active centers. Most commonly used cytostatics from this group are cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin. Cisplatin was used fot the first time in 1978, from this time many platinum derivatives were created. In this review we present biological proper...

Gold and ruthenium compounds hold today great promise as new metallodrugs for treatment of human ovarian carcinoma; yet, their mode of action is still largely unknown. To shed light on their molecular mechanisms in previous studies we performed proteomic analysis in the A2780 human ovarian cancer cell line, after treatment with four different gold and two ruthenium compounds. To gain a better i...

Two ruthenium(III) complexes composed of 5,7-ditertbutyl-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine (dbtp) ligands were prepared and structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography, IR, UV-Vis, EPR spectroscopies and cyclic voltammetry (CV). The crystal structures of trans-[RuCl(3)(H(2)O)(dbtp)(2)] 1 and mer-[RuCl(3)(dbtp)(3)]·0.815OCMe(2) 2 showed slightly distorted octahedral geometries with two 1 o...

Synthesis and characterization of seven ruthenium (II) and ruthenium (III) chloro sulphoxide complexes with 1, 2, 3-benzotriazole are reported. Three different formulations exist: [cis, fac-RuCl2(so)3(btz)]; [trans-RuCl2(so)3(btz)] and [trans-RuCl4(so)(btz)]-[X]+; where so=dimethylsulphoxide/ tetramethylenesulphoxide; btz = 1, 2, 3-benzotriazole and [X]+ = [(btz)H]+ or Na+. These complexes were...

A new synthetic procedure for the efficient preparation of dinuclear ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes is reported. The compounds synthesized are [(bpy)2Ru(BPBT)Ru(bpy)2](PF6)2 and [(bpy)2Ru(BPZBT)Ru(bpy)2](PF6)2. (bpy = 2,2’bipyridine; H2BPBT = 5,5’-bis(pyridin-2-yl)-3,3’-bis(1,2,4-triazole); H2BPZBT = 5,5’bis(pyrazin-2-yl)-3,3’-bis(1,2,4-triazole). Electrochemical experiments show that the ...

The state-of-the-art in olefin metathesis is application of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-containing ruthenium alkylidenes for the formation of internal C=C bonds and of cyclic alkyl amino carbene (CAAC)-containing ruthenium benzylidenes in the production of terminal olefins. A straightforward synthesis of bis(CAAC)Ru indenylidene complexes, which are highly effective in the formation of both te...

The group's recent advances in catalytic carbon-to-heteroatom bond forming reactions of alkenes and alkynes are described. For the C-O bond formation reaction, a well-defined bifunctional ruthenium-amido catalyst has been successfully employed for the conjugate addition of alcohols to acrylic compounds. The ruthenium-hydride complex (PCy(3))(2)(CO)RuHCl was found to be a highly effective cataly...

Dihydroxybenzaldehyde-based Schiff base ligands (L1–L3) and their ruthenium(II) complexes were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, 1H-, 13Cand 31P-NMR, UV–Vis, IR and mass spectroscopy. The DNA binding of the ruthenium(II) complexes was investigated by UV–Vis absorption spectroscopy. The experiments revealed that all the compounds could bind to DNA through electrostatic interac...