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ISBOMC `10 5.7 – 9.7. 2010 <strong>Ruhr</strong>-<strong>Universität</strong> <strong>Bochum</strong><br />

Bioorganometallics in Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry<br />

Chris Orvig *a<br />

a Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Group, Department <strong>of</strong> Chemistry, University <strong>of</strong> British<br />

Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada. E-mail: orvig@chem.ubc.ca<br />

Bioorganometallic chemistry was an oxymoron in the 1970s when Pt compounds emerged for cancer<br />

chemotherapy and Tc compounds took flight as nuclear medicine imaging agents. At that time, the<br />

speaker fastidiously avoided working with technetium carbonyl compounds when he was a graduate<br />

student! Now, thanks to the effort <strong>of</strong> this community, bioorganometallic chemistry plays a valuable<br />

role to the larger fields <strong>of</strong> medicinal inorganic chemistry and medicinal chemistry.<br />

Efforts in the speaker's labs to develop organometallic compounds for therapy and diagnosis will be<br />

outlined, focussing on recent results in antimalarial and imaging applications.<br />

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