Clioquinol, a 8-hydroxyquinoline derivative, is producing very encouraging results in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Its biological effects are most likely ascribed to complexation of specific metal ions, such as copper(II) and zinc(II), critically associated with protein aggregation and degeneration processes in the brain. We report here, for the first time, a structural characterization of the zinc(II) and copper(II) complexes of clioquinol. A ligand to metal stoichiometry of 2:1 is found in both cases, though in the presence of quite different coordination polyhedra. The present findings are discussed in the frame of modern approaches to AD treatment.

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The solid-state structure and behavior of tartrate (MT-o) and succinate (MS-m) metoprolol salts have been studied with a combined experimental (XRD by both single crystal and microcrystalline powder and DSC) and modeling approach (MD and MO calculations). In