“…Several reports in coordination biochemistry have shown that soluble iron and other transition metals can complex antibiotic molecules [24][25][26]. Amoxicillin, for example, is reported to form complexes with aqueous Fe(II), Fe(III), Co(II), Co(III), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) [27], and La(III), Ce(III), Sm(III) and Y(III) [26,27].…”