Two nanometre gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), bearing sugar moieties and/or thiol-polyethylene glycol-amine (PEG-amine), were synthesised and evaluated for their in vitro toxicity and ability to radiosensitise cells with 220 kV and 6 MV X-rays, using four cell lines representing normal and cancerous skin and breast tissues. Acute 3 h exposure of cells to AuNPs, bearing PEG-amine only or a 50:50 rat...

Novel sulfamide-amine alcohol ligands were designed using a grafting strategy and synthesized from readily available starting materials via a simple, efficient method. The key features of these ligands for the asymmetric addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes included stability, enhanced effectiveness without using Ti(O(i)Pr)(4), suitability for a variety of aldehydes, the ability to operate at r...

We have evaluated the proteochemometrics approach in the analysis of the interactions of a diverse set or organic ligands with subtypes of serotonin, dopamine, histamine, and adrenergic receptors. As used herein, proteochemometrics exploits affinity data for series of organic amines binding to wild-type amine G protein-coupled receptors, correlating it to descriptions and cross-description deri...

In the title compound, [Ag(C(7)H(6)N(2)S)(2)]NO(3)·C(3)H(6)O, the Ag(I) ion is coordinated to two benzothia-zol-2-amine ligands via the thia-zole N atoms in an approximately linear arrangement. The dihedral angle between the mean planes of the two 1,3-benzothia-zole groups is 5.9 (3)°. Both amine groups on the ligands are oriented in the same direction and are engaged in N-H⋯O hydrogen bonding ...

Two new azide bound cobalt(III) complexes, [Co(L(1))(N3)3] (fac-1) and [Co(L(2))(N3)3] (mer-2), where L(1) is bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amine and L(2) is (2-pyridylmethyl)(2-pyridylethyl)amine, derived from tridentate reduced Schiff-base ligands have been reported. Interestingly, a methylene bridge regulated preferential coordination mode of ligands is noticed in their crystal structures: it is found...

In the title compound, [UO(2)L(2)(NO(3))(2)] {L = N-{bis-[meth-yl(phen-yl)amino]phosphor-yl}-2,2,2-trichloro-acetamide, C(16)H(17)Cl(3)N(3)O(2)P}, the U(VI) ions are eight-coordinated by axial oxido ligands and six equatorial O atoms from the phosphoryl and nitrate groups in a distorted hexa-gonal-bipyramidal geometry. There are disordered fragments in the two coordinating L ligands: the trichl...

In the title compound, [Co(CO(3))(C(10)H(9)N(3))(2)]Br, a distorted octa-hedral coordination of the Co(III) atom is completed by four N atoms of the two chelating di-2-pyridyl-amine ligands and two O atoms of the chelating carbonate anion. The di-2-pyridyl-amine ligands are nonplanar and the dihedral angles between the 2-pyridyl groups are 29.11 (9) and 37.15 (12)°. The coordination cation, whi...

The synthesis and characterization, spectroscopic, and biological studies of 2-acetylferrocenyl-4phenylthiosemicarbazone, 2-acetylferrocenyl-4-methylthiosemicarbazone, 2-acetylpyridine-2thiophenecarboxylsemicarbazone and 2-acetylferrocenyl-2-thiophenecarboxylsemicarbazone with copper(II) chloride are reported here. The ligands were synthesized by condensation reaction of appropriate carbonyl an...

In the title compound, [Zn(N(3))(2)(C(10)H(9)N(3))](n), tetra-hedrally coordinated Zn(II) ions with two monodentate azide ligands are linked into zigzag one-dimensional chain motifs by di-4-pyridylamine (dpa) tethers. Individual [Zn(N(3))(2)(dpa)](n) chains are connected into supra-molecular layers via N-H⋯N hydrogen bonding between the central amine groups of the dpa ligands and terminal unlig...

Libraries of lanthanide complexes supported by nitrogen and oxygen containing ligands have been synthesised using a high-throughput approach. The complexes were employed in the ring-opening polymerisation of epsilon-caprolactone, in some cases giving polycaprolactone of controlled molecular weight and narrow polydispersity. The libraries, based on twenty-one ligands and eight lanthanide reagent...