Coordination Compounds 2 Ga - Galium; Vol D/2

Part of an encyclopaedic reference on inorganic and organometallic chemistry, this volume continues the description of gallium co-ordination compounds. It treats complexes with ligands containing nitrogen or nitrogen and oxygen as heteroatoms, for example, complexes with porphyrins, phthalocyanines, amino alcohols, amino carboxylic acids, amides, proteins, hydrazides, hydroxamic acids, oximes, amine oxides and nitro hydrocarbons. A feature of the co-ordination chemistry of gallium described in this volume are the numerous polydentate ligands which occur in nature or which mimic ligands in living systems. The interest on the polydentate co-ordination chemistry of GaIII pertains to the role which these complexes may have in the genesis and diagnosis of diseases such as tumours and abscesses.