Vanadium complexes with polypyridyl ligands: Speciation, structure and potential medicinal activity
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lino Hernández; Mary Lorena Araujo; Waleska Madden; Edgar Del Carpio; Vito Lubes; Giuseppe Lubes
- Source
- Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 229:111712
- Subject
- Inorganic Chemistry
Molecular Structure
Coordination Complexes
Pyridines
Cell Line, Tumor
Animals
Humans
Antineoplastic Agents
Vanadium
Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
Ligands
Biochemistry
Phenanthrolines
- Language
- ISSN
- 0162-0134
This review focuses on the interaction between the essential element‑vanadium with 1,10-phenanthroline and polypyridyl ligands. It starts with a summary of the prior work on speciation studies for the binary systems vanadium-phenanthroline alongside several hydrolytic studies of the metal ion. It also includes a complete overview on the different X-ray structures known to date with discussions on the potential cytotoxic activity of several vanadium-polypyridyl complexes.