Dalton Transactions in Chemistry World

A Dalton Transactions article on carbon monoxide releasing molecules based on rhenium has been highlighted by Chemistry World:

Vitamin scaffold turns silent killer into a healing hero

A way to deliver carbon monoxide into the body safely for therapeutic use has been devised by scientists from Switzerland.

Fabio Zobi and colleagues from the University of Zurich attached a vitamin B12 scaffold to carbon monoxide-releasing rhenium complexes to increase their biocompatibility. Read the rest of the news story on the Chemistry World website…

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17 e− rhenium dicarbonyl CO-releasing molecules on a cobalamin scaffold for biological application
Fabio Zobi, Olivier Blacque, Robert A. Jacobs, Marcus C. Schaub and Anna Yu. Bogdanova
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10649J

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