Next generation gold drugs and probes: chemistry and biomedical applications

RT Mertens, S Gukathasan, AS Arojojoye… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The gold drugs, gold sodium thiomalate (Myocrisin), aurothioglucose (Solganal), and the
orally administered auranofin (Ridaura), are utilized in modern medicine for the treatment of …

Gold complexes in anticancer therapy: From new design principles to particle‐based delivery systems

G Moreno‐Alcántar, P Picchetti… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of the medicinal properties of gold complexes has fuelled the design and
synthesis of new anticancer metallodrugs, which have received special attention due to their …

New trends for metal complexes with anticancer activity

PCA Bruijnincx, PJ Sadler - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2008 - Elsevier
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 …

[BOOK][B] Bioinorganic Chemistry--Inorganic Elements in the Chemistry of Life: An Introduction and Guide

W Kaim, B Schwederski, A Klein - 2013 - books.google.com
The field of Bioinorganic Chemistry has grown significantly in recent years; now one of the
major sub-disciplines of Inorganic Chemistry, it has also pervaded other areas of the life …

Stable cyclic carbenes and related species beyond diaminocarbenes

M Melaimi, M Soleilhavoup… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The success of homogeneous catalysis can be attributed largely to the development of a
diverse range of ligand frameworks that have been used to tune the behavior of various …

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 …

Beyond catalysis: N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as components for medicinal, luminescent, and functional materials applications

L Mercs, M Albrecht - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This tutorial review compiles the advances that have been achieved in using transition metal
complexes containing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands as components for materials …