TY - JOUR TI - Synthesis, Structure, and Antiproliferative Activity of Three Gallium(III) Azole Complexes AU - Stergios Zanias AU - Giannis S. Papaefstathiou AU - Catherine P. Raptopoulou AU - Konstantinos T. Papazisis AU - Vasiliki Vala AU - Dimitra Zambouli AU - Alexandros H. Kortsaris AU - Dimitrios A. Kyriakidis AU - Theodoros F. Zafiropoulos JO - Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications PY - 2010 VL - 2010 TODO - null SP - 1--10 PB - Hindawi Limited SN - 1565-3633, 1687-479X TODO - 10.1155/2010/168030 TODO - null TODO - As part of our interest into the bioinorganic chemistry of gallium, gallium(III) complexes of the azole ligands 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (btd), 1,2,3-benzotriazole (btaH), and 1-methyl-4,5-diphenylimidazole (L) have been isolated. Reaction of btaH or btd with GaBr3 or GaCl3 resulted in the mononuclear complexes [ GaBr3(btaH) 2] (1) and [ GaCl3(btd) 2] (2), respectively, while treatment of GaCl3 with L resulted in the anionic complex (LH)(2)[GaCl4] (3). All three complexes were characterized by single-crystal X-ray crystallography and IR spectroscopy, while their antiproliferative activities were investigated against a series of human and mouse cancer cell lines. ER -