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Gallium compounds in cancer therapy

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Metal Compounds in Cancer Therapy

Abstract

Gallium is an element from Group IIIa of the periodic table, along with boron, aluminium, indium and thallium. The +3 oxidation state of this element, as the cation, is the most stable form in aqueous solution. The Ga3+ ion is classified as a hard acid, binding most strongly to highly ionic, non-polarizable Lewis bases (Domingo and Corbella, 1991). The general coordination chemistry of Ga3+ is very similar to that of the high-spin Fe3+ ion, due to their similar charge, ionic radius, coordination number and electronic configuration (Bradley, 1962; Greenwood, 1963; Green and Welch, 1989). Two radioisotopes, 67Ga and 68Ga, possess nuclear properties, and 67Ga has been widely used in nuclear medicine imaging (Edwards and Hayes, 1969). The in vivo antitumour effects of the stable 69Ga3+ ion were described for the first time by Hart and Adamson (1971).

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Collery, P. (1994). Gallium compounds in cancer therapy. In: Fricker, S.P. (eds) Metal Compounds in Cancer Therapy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1252-9_8

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