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Platinum in the form of dichloro-diamino-platinum [Pt(NH3)2Cl2]2+ - in the cis isomer - the trans isomer is essentially useless, the drug is used in chemo therapy and is more commonly known as cis-platin. However due to the side effects other drugs have been made, carbo-platin being the one that works almost as well as cis platin. In carbo-platin the chloride ions are replace with cyclobutan-1,1-dioc acid [Pt(NH3)2CH2CH2CH2C(COOH)2]
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