“…In spite of the widespread use of these antineoplastic agents and its future potentialities, the knowledge of the coordination chemistry of 5-haloruracils is limited [1][2][3][4][5]7,8]. A great number of metal 1-methyluracilato [9] and uracilato complexes with Cd(II) [10], Ni(II) [11,12], Hg(II) [13], Pt(II) [12,14,15] and Zn(II) [16][17][18] have been described, but, to our knowledge, only an example of Xray structure of metal complexes with 5-halouracilatos is known: the [Cu(5-fluorouracilato-N 1 ) 2 (NH 3 ) 2 (H 2 O)] complex, where the metal is bound to 5-fluorouracilato via N 1 in a limit 4 + 1 square-pyramidal coordination [7].…”