Stergios Zanias
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Giannis S. Papaefstathiou
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Catherine P. Raptopoulou
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Konstantinos T. Papazisis
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Vasiliki Vala
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As part of our interest into the bioinorganic chemistry of gallium, gallium(III) complexes of the azole ligands 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (btd), 1,2,3-benzotriazole (btaH), and 1-methyl-4,5-diphenylimidazole (L) have been isolated. Reaction of btaH or btd withGaBr3orGaCl3resulted in the mononuclear complexes[GaBr3(btaH)2](1) and[GaCl3(btd)2](2), respectively, while treatment ofGaCl3with L resulted in the anionic complex(LH)2[GaCl4](3). All three complexes were characterized by single-crystal X-ray crystallography and IR spectroscopy, while their antiproliferative activities were investigated against a series of human and mouse cancer cell lines.