Chemical compositions and methods of making them

1. A composition comprising

a pharmaceutically or dermatologically acceptable carrier; and

a chelate formed by a polyfunctional carboxylic acid with basic salts of two or more coordination elements selected from one or more of copper, silver, gold, aluminum, scandium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, gallium, yttrium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, technetium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, cadmium, and indium, wherein the chelate includes two or more coordination elements are joined to a central unit derived from the polyfunctional carboxylic acid.

2. A composition as in claim 1 wherein the coordination elements are Cu and Zinc.

3. A composition as in claim 1 wherein the polyfunctional acid is malonic acid.

4. A malonate composition comprising:

one or more copper molecules;

one or more zinc molecules;

a central malonate unit, wherein the central malonate unit bridges the one or more copper molecules and one or more zinc molecules by coordinate bonding; and

a pharmaceutically or dermatologically acceptable carrier.

5. The malonate composition of claim 4 wherein the one or more copper molecules is a tetraaquacopper (II) square.

6. The malonate composition of claim 4 wherein the one or more zinc molecules is a tetraaquazinc square.

7. The malonate composition of claim 4 wherein the central unit is an octahedral diaquadimalonatocopper (II) unit.