The systematic study of interactions between metal ions and nucleobases, the constituents
of nucleic acids, as well as nucleic acids in general started some 50 years ago, around …

This review summarizes results concerning molecular interactions of nucleic acid bases as
revealed by advanced ab initio quantum chemical (QM) calculations published in last few …

Metal-mediated base pairs represent a topical area of research at the border of bioinorganic
chemistry, supramolecular coordination chemistry and DNA nanotechnology. In a metal …

In 1963 one of us, together with JM Lagowski, published in Volumes 1 and 2 of Advances in
Heterocyclic Chemistry four chapters [63AHC (1), p. 312, p. 341; 63AHC (2), p. 3, p. 28] …

An overview is presented on recent developments in selected areas of Pt coordination
chemistry which were a direct consequence of the discovery of the antitumor activity of cis-Pt …

Conspectus The significance of metal ions for the function and properties of DNA and RNA,
long seen primarily under biological aspects and medicinal uses, has recently gained a …

Metal ions are inevitably involved in almost every aspect of nucleic acid chemistry. Their
most prominent role is certainly the maintenance of nucleic acid structural integrity …

In nucleic acids, the nucleobases are typically uncharged in the physiological range 4< pH<
9. Like any other chemical modification of a nucleobase, metal coordination perturbs the …

Crystal structure studies indicate that metalation of the exocyclic amino group of cytosine
and adenine nucleobases by PtII and HgII entities, respectively, induces protonation of a …

This article reviews discrete complexes of platinum in its common oxidation states+ II,+ III,
and+ IV with aqua, hydroxido, oxido, and peroxido ligands, which at some point had been …