Inorganic Medicinal Compounds

Bromine is used in making fumigants, flameproofing agents, water purification compounds, dyes, medicinals, sanitizers, inorganic bromides for photography, etc. Organic bromides are also important. 

Inorganic or metal-containing medicinal compounds may contain either (a) chemical elements essential to life forms—iron salts used in the treatment of anemia—or (b) nonessential/toxic elements that carry out specific medicinal purposes—platinum-containing compounds as antitumor agents or technetium... 

Heteropolyacids (HPA) are the unique class of inorganic complexes. They are widely used in different areas of science in biochemistry for the precipitation of albumens and alkaloids, in medicine as anticarcinogenic agents, in industry as catalysts. HPA are well known analytical reagents for determination of phosphoms, silica and arsenic, nitrogen-containing organic compounds, oxidants and reductants in solution etc. 

Metal-metal (M-M) bonds, first noted in the early sixties, occur in several thousand transition-metal compounds [1]. Complex technetium compounds and compounds with M-M bonds (clusters) have been studied more extensively than many other classes of inorganic compounds. Increasing interest in technetium compounds is due to the practical uses of the "mTc isotope, which ranks first among radioactive isotopes used in nuclear medicine diagnostics [2-4]. On the other hand, technetium clusters are an interesting object for theoretical studies, because until recently, they were the only compounds in which the presence of these anomalous chemical bonds was thought possible. 

Calcium carbonate is a common inorganic compound known as limestone. Calcium carbonate has many applications in industries such as medicine, agriculture, paint plastic and surface coatings etc. The vast majority of calcium carbonate used in industry is extracted by mining process. Pure calcium carbonate (e.g. for food or pharmaceutical use), is synthesized by passing carbon dioxide into a solution of calcium hydroxide slurry. In this process calcium carbonate precipitates out, and this grade of product is referred to as precipitate calcium carbonate (abbreviated as PCC). The common reaction is as follows ... 

Arsenic compounds have been used in medicine since the time of Hippocrates, ca. 400 BCE (Woolson 1975). Inorganic arsenicals have been used for centuries, and organoarsenicals for at least a century in the treatment of syphilis, yaws, amoebic dysentery, and trypanosomiasis (NAS... 

Table 7.2 Some Examples of Inorganic Elements and Compounds with Medicinal Purposes...

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