Structure–activity relationships for ruthenium and osmium anticancer agents–towards clinical development

SM Meier-Menches, C Gerner, W Berger… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Anticancer metallodrugs based on ruthenium and osmium are among the most investigated
and advanced non-platinum metallodrugs. Inorganic drug discovery with these agents has …

Metal N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as potential antitumor metallodrugs

W Liu, R Gust - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of cisplatin's antitumor activity in 1969 prompted the search for novel metal-
containing complexes as potential anticancer drugs. Among these novel complexes, metal N …

Coinage Metal−N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

JCY Lin, RTW Huang, CS Lee, A Bhattacharyya… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
An N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) contains a carbene carbon incorporated in a nitrogen-
containing heterocycle, presumably reactive and difficult to isolate. 1 The first isolation of …

The Medicinal applications of imidazolium carbene− metal complexes

KM Hindi, MJ Panzner, CA Tessier, CL Cannon… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Ofele and Wanzlick reported the synthesis of the first N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-metal
complexes in 1968. 1, 2 The isolation of the first free carbene by Arduengo in 1991 set the …

On the medicinal chemistry of gold complexes as anticancer drugs

I Ott - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Metal complexes have shown interesting preclinical and clinical results as antitumor drugs
and platinum compounds are well established in current cancer chemotherapy. However …

Non platinum metal complexes as anti‐cancer drugs

I Ott, R Gust - Archiv der Pharmazie: An International Journal …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The development of metal complexes with platinum central atoms such as cisplatin or
carboplatin had an enormous impact on current cancer chemotherapy. However, the …

Gold compounds as therapeutic agents for human diseases

SJ Berners-Price, A Filipovska - Metallomics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The application of gold in medicine is traceable for several thousand years and Au (i)
compounds have been used clinically to treat rheumatoid arthritis since the last century …

A golden future in medicinal inorganic chemistry: the promise of anticancer gold organometallic compounds

B Bertrand, A Casini - Dalton Transactions, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
From wedding rings on fingers to stained glass windows, by way of Olympic medals, gold
has been highly prized for millennia. Nowadays, organometallic gold compounds occupy an …

Phosphorescent iridium (III)-bis-N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as mitochondria-targeted theranostic and photodynamic anticancer agents

Y Li, CP Tan, W Zhang, L He, LN Ji, ZW Mao - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Mitochondria-targeted compounds represent a promising approach to target tumors
selectively and overcome resistance to current anticancer therapies. In this work, three …

Targeting the mitochondrial cell death pathway with gold compounds

PJ Barnard, SJ Berners-Price - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
There is much recent evidence showing that mitochondria play a critical role in the
regulation of apoptosis (programmed cell death), making them an attractive target for the …