Bioinorganic chemistry is at the gateway of inorganic chemistry and biochemistry, i.e. it describes the mutual relationship between these two sub-disciplines, with focus upon the function of inorganic substances in living systems, including the transport, speciation and eventually, mineralization of inorganic materials, and including the use of inorganic in medicinal therapy and diagnosis. Bioinorganic chemistry is a field that examines the role of metals in biology. Bioinorganic chemistry includes the study of both natural phenomena such as the behaviour of metalloproteins as well artificially introduced metals, including those that are non-essential in medicine and toxicology. Many biological processes such as respiration depend upon molecules that fall within the realm of inorganic chemistry. The discipline also includes the study of inorganic models or inorganic models or mimics that imitate the behaviour or metalloproteins. Bioinorganic or biological inorganic chemistry is the discipline dealing with the interaction between inorganic substances and molecules of biological interest. It is a rather wide field, because it addresses the role, uptake, and fate of elements essential for life, the response of living organisms to toxic inorganic substances, the function of metal-based drugs, the synthetic production of functional models, the production of MRI contrast agents in medical applications, the development of theoretical models for the above topics, and so on. This book attempts to unify the field of bioinorganic chemistry by identifying the principles that have emerged and arranging them in a logical and consistent order.

Contents: 1. Biological Molecules, 2. The Atomic Theory,3. Organometallic Chemistry in Biology. 4. Architecture of Protein Molecules, 5. Complex Metal lons, 6. Metals in Biological Systems, 7. Group of Alkali Metals, 8. DNA Metabolism, 9. Electron Transfer, 10. Chemical Drug Substances, 11. Biochemistry and Human Biology, 12. Biological Catalyst.