Inorganic and Organometallic Transition Metal Complexes with Biological Molecules and Living Cells - Softcover

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Kenneth Lo is a Chair Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong, specializing in luminescent inorganic and organometallic transition metal complexes for biomolecular and cellular applications. His research includes developing intracellular sensors, photoactive labels, bioimaging reagents, and photocytotoxic agents. He has received prestigious awards, including the APA Prize for Young Scientist (2005), the Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan (2011), the Hans Freeman Lectureship from the University of Sydney (2024), and the Elsevier Lectureship Award from the Japanese Photochemistry Association (2025). He was awarded a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2015) and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018). Professor Lo chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Metals in Medicine (2018) and the 23rd International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (2019). Since 2020, he has served as an Associate Editor for the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry.

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Inorganic and Organometallic Transition Metal Complexes with Biological Molecules and Living Cells provides a complete overview of this important research area for newcomers to the field as well as expert researchers. Through concise chapters written and edited by esteemed experts, this book brings together a comprehensive treatment of the area previously only available through scattered review articles in the literature. Advanced topics of research are covered with particular focus on advances in the biological applications of transition metal complexes including inorganic medicine, antimicrobial agents, and biological imaging reagents.

Key features

• Provides an introductory overview of the field for researchers and students
• Focuses on the interactions of inorganic and organometallic transition metal complexes with biological molecules and live cells with an emphasis on the fundamentals and their potential therapeutic and diagnostic applications
• Covers recent biological applications of transition metal complexes such as anticancer drugs, intracellular sensors, chemical biology tools, and bioimaging reagents
• Introduces analytical methods for metal-based drugs