Ruthenium complexes offer new perspectives in cancer therapy; towards this aim we have synthesized a new amphiphilic unimer able to coordinate ruthenium complexes and to form liposomes.

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Bis(pyridine-2-carboxamides) were prepared from 1,2-diamines obtained from α-D-glucose and α-D-mannose. The ligands were assessed in molybdenum-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylations (AAA) by using both methyl (E)-3-phenyl-2-propenyl and methyl rac-1-phenyl-2-propenyl carbonates and dimethyl malonate as nucleophile under microwave irradiation. High enantioselectivity (99 % ee) and high regioselectivity (49:1 in favour of the branched isomer) were ob-

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