Research Letters in Inorganic Chemistry
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 314672, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/314672
Research Letter

Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies on the Reaction of DL-Methionine with [(H2O)(tap)2RuORu(tap)2(H2O)]2+ in Aqueous Medium at Physiological pH

Tandra Das,1 A. K. Datta,2 and A. K. Ghosh1

1Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal 713104, India
2Department of Pediatrics, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, West Bengal 713104, India

Received 10 December 2008; Accepted 4 January 2009

Academic Editor: Wolgang Linert

Copyright © 2009 Tandra Das et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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