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MotW 15: Promising Ruthenium Complexes as Anticancer Drugs
Submitted by edolak on September 3, 2010 – 3:24 pm | No Comment
MotW 15: Promising Ruthenium Complexes as Anticancer Drugs

Organoruthenium complexes, of the form of [(η6-arene)RuII(YZ)X]+ (Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 11470–11486, DOI: 10.1021/ic801361m), are increasingly being studied for use in medicine. The arene is usually a phenyl derivative, YZ is usually a chelating ligand, …

It’s about time to…
Submitted by tsafko on February 2, 2010 – 1:07 am | No Comment
It’s about time to…

It’s about time to throw some credibility to fans of the 2012 apocalypse theory. There is a lot of talk of ancient Mayan calendars, interstellar collisions, and terrestrial polar shifts and while there is …