“…Penicillamine is a thiol-containing amino acid, analogous to cysteine, and has been used as a multidentate organic ligand, which can bind to a variety of metal centers through amine, carboxylate, and/or thiolate groups (Chart 1). [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] Despite the structural similarity of penicillamine to cysteine, except the presence of two methyl groups on the b-carbon atom, its chiral configuration in to an [M V O] 3+ core in mixed tridentate-N,O,S and bidentate-N,S modes. 30,31 Thus, penicillamine usually acts as a tridentate-N,O,S or bidentate-N,S ligand toward an octahedral metal center, although we have recently found that D-Hpen coordinates to a [Ru II (bpy) 2 ] 2+ core in a bidentate-O,S mode to form [Ru(bpy) 2 (D-Hpen-O,S)] + that is thermally converted to [Ru II (bpy) 2 (D-Hpen-N,S)] + .…”