“…Along the past decades, mainly three research groups have contributed to enlighten the metal binding abilities of acyclovir [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]. According to this information, acv preferentially acts as monodentate ligand, involving the purine moiety, with the M-N7(acv) coordination bond acting in cooperation with an intramolecular interligand D-H···O6(acv) interaction (D = oxygen or nitrogen H-donor atoms) [ 8 , 10 , 11 , 13 , 16 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]. Besides this preferred molecular recognition pattern, further studies have reported more unconventional modes for acv such as the N7,O6-chelating mode or even the tetradentate μ 3 -N7,O6,O(e),O(ol) mode [ 12 , 14 , 17 ].…”