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SUBMITTER: Havrylyuk D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6411420 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Havrylyuk Dmytro D Deshpande Megha M Parkin Sean S Glazer Edith C EC
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20181101 88
Coordination complexes can be used to photocage biologically active ligands, providing control over the location, time, and dose of a delivered drug. Dual action agents can be created if both the ligand released and the ligand-deficient metal center effect biological processes. Ruthenium(ii) complexes coordinated to pyridyl ligands generally are only capable of releasing one ligand in H2O, wasting equivalents of drug molecules, and producing a Ru(ii) center that is not cytotoxic. In contrast, Ru ...[more]