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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Inorg Chem. 2018 Jan 11;57(3):1311–1331. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02747

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1.

The photoreaction of [Re(CO)3(NN)(PR3)]+ releases an equivalent of CO and a labile rhenium(I) complex, which may both give rise to cytotoxicity in cancer cells. (S is a solvent molecule).