title: 'Photocisplatin' reagents.
abstract: Owing to the effectiveness of cisplatin in cancer chemotherapy, there is a growing interest in the development of other metal complex-based drugs. Similarly, the approval of photodynamic therapy and extracorporeal photopheresis in clinical practice, and the general advantages of temporal and spatial specificity inherent in phototherapy have generated a general interest in the development of other light-dependent treatment modalities. Over a decade ago it was demonstrated that the thermally inert octahedral bisbipyridyl complex cis-dichlorobis(1,10-phenanthroline)-rhodium(Ill) chloride (BISPHEN) could be activated by light and could then mimic the thermal chemistry between cisplatin and calf thymus-DNA. Thus, the term 'photocisplatin reagents' was coined for rhodium (and related) metal complexes that are thermally inert, but which form covalent bonds with DNA upon irradiation with ultraviolet/visible light. This review discusses recent developments in the elaboration of such photocisplatin reagents.
authors: Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Purdue University, 575 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2091, USA.
authors: Devanesan
authors: D
authors: Loganathan
authors: Harry
authors: H
authors: Morrison
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D006801:Humans; D009944:Organoplatinum Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D010777:Photochemistry; D010778:Photochemotherapy; D012238:Rhodium / Q000737:chemistry; D012428:Ruthenium / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D009944:Organoplatinum Compounds; D012428:Ruthenium; D012238:Rhodium; D002945:Cisplatin