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A possible way to avoid dose-limiting side effects of platinum anticancer drugs is to employ light to cause photochemical changes in nontoxic platinum prodrugs that release active antitumor agents. This strategy could be used in the treatment of localized cancers accessible to irradiation (e.g., bladder, lung, esophagus, and skin). We report here that nontoxic photolabile diam(m)ino platinum(IV) diazido...