ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2024
New Stable Gallium(III) and Indium(III) Complexes with Thiosemicarbazone Ligands: A Biological Evaluation.
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- Octahedral [(8-quinolinyl/phenanthridinyl)amine)Ga(III)] complexes, reactivity, affinity for biomolecules, anti-cancer and computational evaluations.Reaction kinetics, mechanisms and catalysis · 2026Article
- Investigation of Gallium(III) Complexes with Thiouracil Derivatives: Effects of pH on Coordination and Stability.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
The aim of this work is to explore a new library of coordination compounds for medicinal applications. Gallium is known for its various applications in this field. Presently, indium is not particularly important in medicine, but it shares a lot of chemical traits with its above-mentioned lighter companion, gallium, and is also used in radio imaging. These metals are combined with thiosemicarbazones, ligating compounds increasingly known for their biological and pharmaceutical applications. In particular, the few ligands chosen to interact with these hard metal ions share the ideal affinity for a high charge density. Therefore, in this work we describe the synthesis and the characterization of the resulting coordination compounds. The yields of the reactions vary from a minimum of 21% to a maximum of 82%, using a fast and easy procedure. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Infra Red (IR) spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) confirm the formation of stable compounds in all cases and a ligand-to-metal 2:1 stoichiometry with both cations. In addition, we further investigated their chemical and biological characteristics, via UV-visible titrations, stability tests, and cytotoxicity and antibiotic assays. The results confirm a strong stability in all explored conditions, which suggests that these compounds are more suitable for radio imaging applications rather than for antitumoral or antimicrobic ones.
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