Novel tumor chemotherapeutic agents and tumor radio-imaging agents: Potential tumor pharmaceuticals of ternary copper(II) complexes

Potential tumor chemotherapeutic agents and tumor radio-imaging agents of -Cu2+-salicylidene-amino acid Schiff bases-Phen (Bipy) ternary complexes have been designed and synthesized, their antitumor activity and tumor imaging of Cu-64 labeled ones have been tested in tumor-bearing mice. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.