Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.41, No.17, 4605-4605, 2002
Chemistry of some amino acid complexes of ruthenium. Synthesis, characterization, and DNA binding properties
In combination with pi-acid ligands such as 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy), alpha-amino acids (HL, 1) form stable complexes with rutheniurm(II) of type [Ru(bPY)(2)(L)]ClO4 (2), which are found to bind to DNA without causing any structural damage to it.