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Ruthenium Polyaminocarboxylate Complexes
Ruthenium (Ru) complexes containing polyaminocarboxylate (pac) ligands (Ru-pac) have features which indicate they may be suitable for biological applications. For instance, Ru-pac complexes can bind to biomolecules through a rapid and facile aquo-substitution reaction, and Ru-pac
has a range of accessible oxidation states. Ru-pac also has some notable catalytic properties that mimic enzymatic hydrocarbon oxidation by cytochrome P-450 in homogeneous conditions. This is of immense significance towards developing Ru-pac based agents for oxidative cleavage of DNA and artificial
nuclease in DNA foot-printing experiments. This review aims to highlight the scope of Ru-pac complexes as metallopharmaceuticals, and outlines their potential for certain biological applications.
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Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: January 1, 2006
Johnson Matthey's journal of research on the platinum group metals and developments in their application in industry from 1957-2014. It has now been renamed the Johnson Matthey Technology Review
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