Enzo Alessio

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Energy transfer pathways in pyridylporphyrin Re(I) adducts
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 360, no. 3, pp. 1121–1130, 2007
  2. In situ NMR characterisation of an intermediate in the catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 and HCO3- in aqueous solution
    Inorganic Chemistry Communications, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 558–562, 2007
  3. Metalloporphyrins as chemical shift reagents: the unambiguous NMR characterization of the cis- and trans-isomers of meso-(bis)-4'-pyridyl-(bis)-4'-carboxymethylphenylporphyrins
    Tetrahedron, vol. 63, no. 23, pp. 5006–5013, 2007
  4. Replacement of Chlorides with Dicarboxylate Ligands in Anticancer Active Ru(II)-DMSO Compounds: A New Strategy That Might Lead to Improved Activity
    Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 975–992, 2007
  5. Photophysical properties of metal-mediated assemblies of porphyrins
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 250, no. 11-12, pp. 1471–1496, 2006
  6. Electronic Energy Transfer in a Multiporphyrin-Based Molecular Box
    ChemPhysChem, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 1514–1519, 2006
  7. fac-[Re(CO)3(dmso-O)3](CF3SO3): a new versatile and efficient Re(i) precursor for the preparation of mono and polynuclear compounds containing fac-[Re(CO)3]+ fragments
    Dalton Transactions, no. 42, p. 5033, 2006
  8. Back matter
    Dalton Transactions, no. 42, p. 5088, 2006
  9. Pyridylporphyrins peripherally coordinated to ruthenium-nitrosyls, including the water-soluble Na4[Zn·4'TPyP{RuCl4(NO)}4]: synthesis and structural characterization
    New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 29, no. 7, p. 895, 2005
  10. The unprecedented bridging coordination mode of 1,1-cyclobutane dicarboxylate (µ-cbdc-O,O') stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds in ruthenium(ii) complexes
    Dalton Transactions, no. 24, p. 3881, 2005
  11. Synthesis and Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of New RuII-dmso Precursors with Face-Capping Ligands for Use in Self-Assembly Reactions
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 6, pp. 1019–1031, 2005
  12. Is the Aromatic Fragment of Piano-Stool Ruthenium Compounds an Essential Feature for Anticancer Activity? The Development of New RuII-[9]aneS3 Analogues
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2005, no. 17, pp. 3423–3434, 2005
  13. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 44, no. 26, pp. 9752–9762, 2005
  14. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 5, pp. 1454–1462, 2005
  15. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 1110–1121, 2004
  16. Chemical Reviews, vol. 104, no. 9, pp. 4203–4242, 2004
  17. A novel ruthenium nitrosyl complex which also contains a free NO-donor moiety
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 357, no. 12, pp. 3770–3774, 2004
  18. Solution, solid state and biological characterization of ruthenium(III)-DMSO complexes with purine base derivatives
    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 393–401, 2004
  19. The hydrolysis of the anti-cancer ruthenium complex NAMI-A affects its DNA binding and antimetastatic activity: an NMR evaluation
    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 402–412, 2004
  20. Free Exchange across Cells, and Echistatin-Sensitive Membrane Target for the Metastasis Inhibitor NAMI-A (Imidazolium trans-Imidazole Dimethyl Sulfoxide Tetrachlororuthenate) on KB Tumor Cells
    Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, vol. 313, no. 1, pp. 227–233, 2004
  21. Ruthenium Antimetastatic Agents
    Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 4, no. 15, pp. 1525–1535, 2004
  22. Distinct Effects of Dinuclear Ruthenium(III) Complexes on Cell Proliferation and on Cell Cycle Regulation in Human and Murine Tumor Cell Lines
    Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, vol. 305, no. 2, pp. 725–732, 2003
  23. The first examples of four and five O-bonded dmso ligands on a ruthenium centreWe would like to dedicate this work to the late Prof. Rex Sheperd (Pittsburg University, USA) who was very active in the field of ruthenium-nitrosyls and whose premature and recent death we wish to commemorate.
    Dalton Transactions, no. 23, p. 4391, 2003
  24. Coordination and release of NO by ruthenium–dimethylsulfoxide complexes—implications for antimetastases activity
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 245, no. 1-2, pp. 73–83, 2003
  25. Discrete Supramolecular Assemblies of Porphyrins Mediated by Coordination Compounds
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 13, pp. 2371–2384, 2003
  26. Geometrical and Linkage Isomers of [OsCl2(dmso)4]- The Complete Picture
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 17, pp. 3160–3166, 2003
  27. A Functionalized Noncovalent Macrocyclic Multiporphyrin Assembly from a Dizinc(II) Bis-Porphyrin Receptor and a Free-Base Dipyridylporphyrin
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 9, no. 23, pp. 5879–5887, 2003
  28. New geometrical and linkage isomers of the Ru(II) precursor cis,cis,trans-RuCl2(dmso-S)2(dmso-O)(CO): a spectroscopic and structural investigation
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 344, pp. 183–189, 2003
  29. Influence of chemical stability on the activity of the antimetastasis ruthenium compound NAMI-A
    European Journal of Cancer, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 427–435, 2002
  30. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 41, no. 15, pp. 4033–4043, 2002
  31. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 124, no. 6, pp. 1003–1013, 2002
  32. Novel RuIII-DMSO Complexes of the Antiherpes Drug Acyclovir
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2002, no. 8, pp. 1928–1931, 2002
  33. Two-Point Self-Coordination of a Dizinc(II) Bispyridylporphyrin Ruthenium Complex Leading Selectively to a Discrete Molecular Assembly: Solution and Solid-State Characterization
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 8, no. 20, pp. 4670–4674, 2002
  34. Novel mono- and dinuclear ruthenium nitrosyls with coordinated pyrazine
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 339, pp. 265–272, 2002
  35. Energy transfer pathways in pyridylporphyrin metal adducts and side-to-face arrays
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 229, no. 1-2, pp. 51–58, 2002
  36. C60 in the box. A supramolecular C60–porphyrin assembly
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 2001–2008, 2002
  37. Metal-mediated Discrete Supramolecular Assemblies of Porphyrins
    Supramolecular Chemistry, vol. 14, no. 2-3, pp. 103–120, 2002
  38. Novel Unsymmetrical Ru(III) and Mixed-valence Ru(III)/Ru(II) Dinuclear Compounds Related to the Antimetastatic Ru(III) Drug NAMI-A
    Metal-Based Drugs, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 9–18, 2001
  39. Metal-Mediated Self-Assembly of Molecular Squares of Porphyrins Rimmed with Coordination Compounds
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2001, no. 3, pp. 609–612, 2001
  40. Biophysical analysis of natural, double-helical DNA modified by anticancer heterocyclic complexes of ruthenium(III) in cell-free media
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 435–445, 2001
  41. Complexed bridging ligands: oxorhenium(V) compounds with mono-coordinated pyrazine or pyrimidine as possible building blocks for the construction of polynuclear architectures?†
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 8, pp. 1338–1346, 2001
  42. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 40, no. 14, pp. 3498–3504, 2001
  43. Antimetastatic properties and DNA interactions of the novel class of dimeric Ru(III) compounds Na2[?trans-RuCl4(Me2SO)?2(µ-L)] (L=ditopic, non-chelating aromatic N-ligand). A preliminary investigation
    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 79, no. 1-4, pp. 173–177, 2000
  44. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 1434–1443, 2000
  45. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 294–303, 2000
  46. DNA as a Possible Target for Antitumor Ruthenium(III) Complexes A Spectroscopic and Molecular Biology Study of the Interactions of Two Representative Antineoplastic Ruthenium(III) Complexes with DNA
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 376, no. 1, pp. 156–162, 2000
  47. Novel Ruthenium Building Blocks for the Efficient Modular Construction of Heterobimetallic Molecular Squares of Porphyrins
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1096–1099, 2000
  48. Binding of Antitumor Ruthenium(III) Complexes to Plasma Proteins
    Metal-Based Drugs, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 335–342, 2000
  49. A spectroscopic study of the reaction of NAMI, a novel ruthenium(III)anti-neoplastic complex, with bovine serum albumin
    European Journal of Biochemistry, vol. 267, no. 4, pp. 1206–1213, 2000
  50. Anti-Cancer Drugs, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 665–672, 2000
  51. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 869–875, 1999
  52. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 2527–2529, 1999
  53. Novel ruthenium(III) dimers Na2[{trans-RuCl4(Me2SO-S?)}2(µ-L)] and [{mer,cis-RuCl3(Me2SO-S?)(Me2SO-O)}2(µ-L)] (L = bridging heterocyclic N-donor ligand) closely related to the antimetastatic complex Na[trans-RuCl4(Me2SO-S?)(Him)]?†
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 19, pp. 3361–3371, 1999
  54. The first example of a double bridged diruthenium(II) complex containing the rare bridging S,O bidentate dimethyl sulfoxide ligand which defines a stable ?Ru–Cl–Ru–S–O? five-membered ring
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 15, pp. 2447–2448, 1998
  55. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 2458–2463, 1998
  56. Rhodium(III) analogues of antitumour-active ruthenium(III) compounds: The crystal structure of [ImH][-RhCl(Im)] (Im=imidazole)
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 273, no. 1-2, pp. 62–71, 1998
  57. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 36, no. 24, pp. 5614–5623, 1997
  58. Clinical and Experimental Metastasis, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 371–379, 1997
  59. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 118, no. 32, pp. 7593–7600, 1996
  60. Synthesis and crystal structure of new Ru(III)-sulfoxide complexes containing a planar N-ligand: mer,cis-RuCl3(1Me-Im)2(S-DMSO) and [4Et-PyH][trans-RuCl4(4Et-Py)(S-DMSO)]
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 253, no. 1, pp. 87–90, 1996
  61. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 2538–2545, 1996
  62. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 2384–2389, 1996
  63. Down-regulation of tumour gelatinase/inhibitor balance and preservation of tumour endothelium by an anti-metastatic ruthenium complex
    International Journal of Cancer, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 60–66, 1996
  64. Treatment of residual metastases with Na[trans-RuCl4(DMSO)lm] and ruthenium uptake by tumor cells
    Anti-Cancer Drugs, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 697–702, 1996
  65. Reduction of Lung Metastases by Na[trans-RuCl4(DMSO)Im] is not Coupled With the Induction of Chemical Xenogenization
    Metal-Based Drugs, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 67–73, 1996
  66. A novel open-box shaped pentamer of vertically linked porphyrins that selectively recognizes S-bonded Me2SO complexes
    Chemical Communications, no. 12, p. 1411, 1996
  67. New atropisomeric bidentate nitrogen-donor compounds as potential stereocontrollers in mild CO?styrene copolymerisation catalysed by palladium(II) salts
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 6, p. 1021, 1996
  68. Effects of ruthenium complexes on experimental tumors: irrelevance of cytotoxicity for metastasis inhibition
    Chemico-Biological Interactions, vol. 95, no. 1-2, pp. 109–126, 1995
  69. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 34, no. 19, pp. 4716–4721, 1995
  70. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 34, no. 19, pp. 4722–4734, 1995
  71. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 815–816, 1994
  72. Antimetastatic action and toxicity on healthy tissues of Na[trans-RuCl4(DMSO)Im] in the mouse
    Clinical & Experimental Metastasis, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 93–100, 1994
  73. Anti-leukaemic action of RuCl2(DMSO)4 isomers and prevention of brain involvement on P388 leukaemia and on P388/DDP subline
    European Journal of Cancer, vol. 29, no. 13, pp. 1873–1879, 1993
  74. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 32, no. 25, pp. 5756–5761, 1993
  75. Biochemistry, vol. 31, no. 31, pp. 7094–7103, 1992
  76. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 609–618, 1991
  77. Carbonylation of nitrobenzene to phenyl isocyanate and methyl carbamate catalyzed by palladium and rhodium activated by chelating nitrogen donor ligands
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 179–190, 1991
  78. Antineoplastic effects of mer-trichlorobisdimethylsulphoxideaminorutheniumIII against murine tumors: Comparison with cisplatin and with ImH[RuIm2Cl4]
    Chemico-Biological Interactions, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 223–234, 1991
  79. Electrochemistry of sodium trans-bis(dimethyl sulphoxide) tetrachlororuthenate(III) and mer-trichlorotris(dimethyl sulphoxide) ruthenium(III): the first and complete electrochemical characterization of chlorodimethyl sulphoxide ruthenium(III) complexes
    Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, vol. 296, no. 1, pp. 57–76, 1990
  80. Selective hydrogen transfer reactions from alcohols to ketones promoted by rhodium complexes with 1,10-phenanthroline and related ligands
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 175–185, 1989
  81. trans-Ru(II)dimethylsulphoxides: antineoplastic action on mouse tumours
    Pharmacological Research, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 453–454, 1989
  82. Antitumour properties of dimethylsulphoxide ruthenium(II) complexes in the Lewis lung carcinoma system
    Pharmacological Research, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 617–628, 1989
  83. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 111, no. 18, pp. 7068–7071, 1989
  84. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 27, no. 23, pp. 4099–4106, 1988
  85. Reductive carbonylation of nitroaromatic compounds to urethanes catalyzed by [Pd(1,10-phenanthroline)2][PF6]2 and related complexes
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 67–80, 1987
  86. Activation of carbonyl clusters with 1,10-phenanthroline and related ligands: the reduction of nitrobenzene with Co + H2O as a model reaction for Mx(CO)y (M = Ru, Os, Ir) + phen systems as catalyst precursors
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 77–98, 1985
  87. Activation of Rh6(CO)16 with 1,10-phenanthroline and substituted derivatives in the catalytic reduction of nitrobenzene to aniline with carbon monoxide and water
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 327–339, 1984