Metals play vital roles in nutrients and medicines and provide chemical functionalities that
are not accessible to purely organic compounds. At least 10 metals are essential for human …

The great clinical success of cisplatin and its derivatives has convinced people that metal
complexes could play a more significant role in human cancer therapy. However, targeting …

The success of platinum-based anticancer agents has motivated the exploration of novel
metal-based drugs for several decades, whereas problems such as drug-resistance and …

The quest for alternative drugs to the well-known cisplatin and its derivatives, which are still
used in more than 50% of the treatment regimes for patients suffering from cancer, is highly …

Ferrocene derivatives have attracted significant interest as anticancer, antibacterial,
antifungal and antiparasitic drug candidates. Discovered in the 1990s, the two most …

Medicinal inorganic chemistry can exploit the unique properties of metal ions for the design
of new drugs. This has, for instance, led to the clinical application of chemotherapeutic …

Despite current developments in therapeutics focusing on biotechnologically-oriented
species, the unflagging utility of small molecules or peptides in medicine is still producing …

The appearance of ferrocene in the middle of the 20th century has revolutionized
organometallic chemistry and is now providing applications in areas as varied and …

Ferrocene is an important structural core in bioorganometallic chemistry because of its
inherent stability, excellent redox properties, and low toxicity. Ferroquine and ferrocifen are …

In undergraduate level organometallic chemistry courses students are usually taught that
organometallic compounds are toxic and unstable in air and water. While this is true of many …