Coordination chemistry biological applications

Some of the important types of coordination compounds occur in biological systems (for example, heme and chlorophyll). There are also significant applications of coordination compounds that involve their use as catalysts. The formation of coordination compounds provides the basis for several techniques in analytical chemistry. Because of the relevance of this area, an understanding of the basic theories and principles of coordination chemistry is essential for work in many related fields of chemistry. In the next few chapters, an introduction will be given to the basic principles of the chemistry of coordination compounds. 

Work on dithiolene chemistry continued through the 1960s and 1970s fueled by continued interest in the remarkable coordination chemistry of dithiolene complexes. However, in the last 20 years tremendous added impetus to research in the area arose from discoveries in materials science, enzymology, analytical science, and reactivity that broadened the impact and import of dithiolene chemistry. This volume seeks to capture the interplay of basic work on dithiolene complexes with the growing biological, sensor, reactivity, and materials science implications and applications that have made dithiolene chemistry a vibrant and growing held. 

Finally, just as polydentate amines find wide application in biological and synthetic coordination chemistry, so too do bi- and to a lesser extent tridentate phosphines. In addition to simple kinetic stabilization through... 

Misra, S.N., Gagnani, M.A., Devi, I, and Shukla, R.S. (2004) Biological and clinical aspects of lanthanide coordination compounds. Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications, 2, 155-192. 

The two parts of the present volume contain seventeen chapters written by experts from eleven countries. They cover computational chemistry, structural chemistry by spectroscopic methods, luminescence, thermochemistry, synthesis, various aspect of chemical behavior such as application as synthons, acid-base properties, coordination chemistry, redox behavior, electrochemistry, analytical chemistry and biological aspects of the metal enolates. Chapters are devoted to special families of compounds, such as the metal ynolates and 1,2-thiolenes and, besides their use as synthons in organic and inorganic chemistry, chapters appear on applications of metal enolates in structural analysis as NMR shift reagents, catalysis, polymerization, electronic devices and deposition of metals and their oxides. 

C.L. Hill, in Applications of Coordination Chemistry, Ed. M. Ward, Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry-II From Biology to Nanotechnology, Elsevier Oxford 2003. Vol. 

Stan s some one hundred articles dealt with the synthesis, structure, stereochemistry, and biological properties of coordination compounds, including the anticancer activity of platinum complexes optical rotatory dispersion circular dichroism the Pfeiffer Effect in metal complexes inorganic nomenclature and the application of computer techniques to chemical and information problems. A prominent educator, he edited three books on inorganic and coordination chemistry. 

Due to their special chemical and physical properties (especially in elemental form), the PGM find various applications both in industry and in the laboratory, including organometallic chemistry, coordination and supramolecular chemistry, biological and medicinal chemistry, surfaces-, materials-and crystal engineering, photo- and electrochemistry and catalysis and organic synthesis. Today, the most important applications are, of course, their use in the catalytic automobile exhaust gas converter (e.g. Shelef and McCabe 2000), followed by their use in the jewelry industry. 

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