A little over 40 years after the discovery of cis-diammindi- chloroplatin(II) (cisplatin) by Barnett Rosenberg, diagnostic and therapeutic applications of metal complexes have significantly expanded beyond the use of platinum complexes in anticancer chemotherapy. During the last 10 to 15 years, the field of bioinorganic medicinal chemistry has seen a tremendous development both in terms of classes of compounds studied as well as breadth of applications in human medicine. Thus, it is certainly time now to summarize these interesting developments in one coherent book. Enzo Alessio from the University of Trieste, himself actively involved in the development of antimetastatic ruthenium complexes, has brought together leading experts in the field from around the world to cover all relevant aspects of medical applications of inorganic compounds in the thirteen chapters of Bioinorganic Medicinal Chemistry.
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