Three promising antimycobacterium tuberculosis ruthenium(II) complexes with the deprotonated ligands 2-hydroxynicotinic acid (2-OHnicH), 6-hydroxynicotinic acid (6-OHnicH) and 3-hydroxypicolinic acid (3-OHpicH) were synthesized and characterized. Structural analysis revealed three different coordination modes depending of the hydroxypyridinecarboxylate ligand. In the complex [Ru(2- OHnic)(dppb)(bipy)]PF6 (1), t...