Coordination Compounds 2

The volume continues the description of gallium coordination compounds. Treated are 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 remarkable feature of the coordination 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 coordination chemistry of GaIII pertains to the role which these complexes may have in the genesis and diagnosis of diseases such as tumors and abscesses.