摘要 |
The invention relates to the use of metal tricarbonyl compounds of the general formula [M(CO),L,]', wherein M is rhenium or technetium or an isotope thereof and L is a ligand, for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of cancer that is both radiotherapeutic and chemotoxic when a radioactive metal is used and chemotoxic when cold rhenium or macroscopic amounts of long-lived Tc-99 is used. The medicament is in particular chemotoxic by causing intrastrand linkages in DNA. In a specific embodiment at least one of L is not OH2. The invention further relates to novel compounds of the general formula IM(CO)3XIX2X3]+ and their use, wherein M is rhenium or technetium or an isotope thereof and at least one X1. X2 and X3 is a monodentate ligand; or two of X, X2 and X3 are part of a bidentate ligand and the other one is optionally a monodentate ligand.
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