“…5,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] One subset of these inhibitors are metal ions and their complexes including vanadium, zinc, copper and others, which have shown potent inhibition of PTPs in vitro and in vivo. 11,[15][16][17][18][19] In particular, a variety of complexes with both vanadium(IV) and vanadium(V) centres have been developed and characterised for their CBP inhibition properties 7,10,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] including several examples with picolinic acid and its derivatives as ligands. [28][29][30][31][32][33] The potency of these inhibitors against PTPs and lipid phosphatases can be tuned as a function of the ligand, the vanadium coordination number and the oxidation state.…”