Solution complexation 1197 --- cancer

To a solution of hexamethyldisilane (2.5 mmol) in HMPA (CAUTION— CANCER SUSPECT AGENT) (3 ml) at 0-5 °C was added methyl lithium (2.5 mmol, 1.5 m MeLi.LiBr complex in ether) dropwise. After being stirred for 3 min, the red solution was treated with Cul (2.5 mmol) in Me2S (1 ml), the resulting black reaction mixture was stirred for 3 min. and 2,3-dibromo-propene (1 mmol) was added rapidly via a syringe. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature, and was stirred for 1.5 h. It was then poured into pentane (25 ml) and saturated ammonium chloride solution (25 ml, buffered to pH 8 by the addition of ammonium hydroxide), and the mixture was stirred vigorously for 1 h. The aqueous phase was re-extracted with pentane, and the combined organic extracts were dried. Removal of... 

To a solution of hexamethyldisilane (2.5 mmol) in HMPA (CAUTION— CANCER SUSPECT AGENT) (3 ml) at 0-5 °C was added methyl lithium (2.5 mmol, 1.5 m MeLi.LiBr complex in ether) dropwise. After being stirred for 3 min, the red solution was treated with Cul (2.5 mmol) in Me2S (1 ml), and the resulting black reaction mixture was stirred for 3 min. Ether (6 ml)... 

Initial experiments showed that [0s(ri6-bip)Cl(en)]+ (26) was not cytotoxic towards cancer cells (105), but a later reassessment of the cytotoxic activity of this compound showed that it indeed was active at micromolar concentrations (IC50 values of 7.6 (A2780) and 10 pM (A549)) (112). A possible explanation for the initial lack of activity may be the partial decomposition of the complex in stock test solutions prepared in DMSO, as was evidenced in subsequent studies (112). The cytotoxicity data are now more in line with the chemical properties of the complex, i.e. observed hydrolysis rate and guanine binding. 

Since the Tc complex of (95) proved to be a powerful radiopharmaceutical for the detection of bone cancer metastasis, considerable efforts have been made to provide the reasons for the specificity. In the preparation of the corresponding radiopharmaceuticals, all three stereoisomers are present from the reaction with meso-dmsa. The reason for the osteotropic behavior may arise from deprotonation of the noncoordinated carboxylic acid groups, and the active complex in solution therefore bears a 5— charge. 

The inert hydroxo-bridged species were also a product of (very fast) hydrolysis of p-cymene osmium complexes with glycinate, L-alaninate, a-aminobutyrate and p-alaninate. However, complexes with picolinate as the chelating ligand, [Os(r 6-/> cym)Cl(pic)] 8 and [Os(r 6-biph)Cl(pic)] 9, with pyridine as /V-donor and carboxy-late as O-donor, hydrolyzed with half-lives of 0.20 and 0.52 h (298 K), and aqua adduct pKa values (pk L value for solutions in D20) of 6.67 and 6.33, respectively. Complexes 8 and 9 were cytotoxic towards A2780 human ovarian cancer cells, with IC50 values of 8 and 4.2 pM, respectively [64],... 

Cancer pagurus cuticle can be dispersed in hot, aqueous solutions of lithium thiocyanate and be reprecipitated without separating the chitin and protein components. The stability of the complex under these conditions would suggest the presence of primary bonding. Thus, some ehitin-protein bonding does exist in arthropod cuticle, but its exact nature and its physiological significance or its involvement in chitin biosynthesis (or both) remain uncertain. 

The structure found in salts like Na2[Gd(dtpa)(H20)] is thought to represent the species found in solution - data from a number of measurements on solutions containing [Ln(dtpa)(H20) ] species, such as luminescence spectra of the Eu and Tb analogues, indicate that one water molecule is coordinated. A wide variety of complexes of amide derivatives of DTPA have also been synthesised, in order to create neutral species. Using [Gd(DTPA)(H20)] it has been shown that these complexes get absorbed by the DNA of the cell they have been used to locate and that they could act as an agent for neutron capture cancer therapy. 

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