1 Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI) for Remarkable enhancement in photocytotoxicity and hydrolytic stability of curcumin on binding to an oxovanadium(IV) moiety Samya Banerjee, a Ila Pant, b Imran Khan, b Puja Prasad, a Akhtar Hussain, a Paturu Kondaiah,* b and Akhil R. Chakravarty* a a Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India. E-mail: arc@ipc.iisc.ernet.in ; Tel: +91-80-22932533 b Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India. E-mail: paturu@mrdg.iisc.ernet.in ; Tel: +91-80-22933259 Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Dalton Transactions. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015