Activation mechanisms for organometallic anticancer complexes

Topics in Organometallic Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue , 2010, Pages 21-56

  Pizarro, Ana M ^a   Habtemariam, Abraha ^a   Sadler, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticancer; Ferrocene; Hydrolysis; Medicinal Organometallics; Osmium; Photoactivation; Ruthenium; Tin; Titanium

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956658484     PISSN: 14366002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13185-1_2     Document Type: Article

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