History shows that metal-based drugs and remedies have been known and used since very
ancient times. For example, silver was employed in the treatment of wounds and ulcers …

Transition metal complexes are widely used therapeutic agents due to their small size,
various coordination numbers, geometries, physiologically relevant redox potentials, as well …

Abstract Nickel (II), copper (II) and zinc (II) complexes with the same ligands normally display
analogous coordination geometry and binding mode toward DNA. However, although …

The “antibiotic era”, characterized by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics, over the last half-
century has culminated in the present critical “era of resistance”. The treatment of bacterial …

Gold-based anticancer agents have gained the widespread attention of medicinal inorganic
chemists due to their unique chemical properties and strong antiproliferative potency …

During last two decades, there has been an enormous growth in the discovery of innovative
active inorganic anticancer complexes (exerting remarkable cytotoxicity at sub micro‐molar …

Three mononuclear coordination complexes of 1-butyl-2-((5-methyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl) methyl)-
1H-benzimidazole (L), namely [CoL] Cl2 (C1),[Co2L2] Cl2· H2O (C2) and [Zn2L2] Cl2 (C3) …

This article provides an overview of the development, structure and activity of various metal
complexes with anti-cancer activity. Chemical researchers continue to work on the …

A novel series of Zn 2+, Cd 2+ and UO 2 2+ complexes of ligands namely 1-[(5-mercapto-1H-
1, 2, 4-triazole-3-ylimino) methyl] naphthalene-2-ol (HL 1) and [(1H-1, 2, 4-triazole-3-ylimino) …

Cancer treatments regimes which include conventional chemotherapy have not proved so
successful in curing human malignancies. Failures to these treatment modalities include …