Shining new light on biological systems: luminescent transition metal complexes for bioimaging and biosensing applications

LCC Lee, KKW Lo - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Luminescence imaging is a powerful and versatile technique for investigating cell
physiology and pathology in living systems, making significant contributions to life science …

Underestimated potential of organometallic rhenium complexes as anticancer agents

A Leonidova, G Gasser - ACS chemical biology, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the recent years, organometallic compounds have become recognized as promising anti-
cancer drug candidates. While radioactive 186/188Re compounds are already used in …

In vitro anticancer activity and in vivo biodistribution of rhenium (I) tricarbonyl aqua complexes

KM Knopf, BL Murphy, SN MacMillan… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Seven rhenium (I) complexes of the general formula fac-[Re (CO) 3 (NN)(OH2)]+ where NN=
2, 2′-bipyridine (8), 4, 4′-dimethyl-2, 2′-bipyridine (9), 4, 4′-dimethoxy-2, 2′-bipyridine …

Applications of luminescent inorganic and organometallic transition metal complexes as biomolecular and cellular probes

KKW Lo, AWT Choi, WHT Law - Dalton Transactions, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The rich photophysical properties of luminescent inorganic and organometallic transition
metal complexes, such as their intense, long-lived, and environment-sensitive emission …

Recent advances in phosphorescent Pt (II) complexes featuring metallophilic interactions: properties and applications

A Aliprandi, D Genovese, M Mauro… - Chemistry Letters, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Supramolecular weak interactions can be used for preparing functional self-assembled
architectures by powerful bottom-up approaches. In particular, when closed-shell …

Progress with, and prospects for, metal complexes in cell imaging

MP Coogan, V Fernández-Moreira - Chemical communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This article summarises the state of the art of metal complexes in cell imaging, particularly
fluorescence microscopy, and presents prospects for the future development of this area …

Re (I) carbonyl complexes: Multimodal platforms for inorganic chemical biology

S Hostachy, C Policar, N Delsuc - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Bio-imaging, by enabling the visualization of biomolecules of interest, has proved to be
highly informative in the study of biological processes. Although fluorescence microscopy is …

Organometallic compounds: an opportunity for chemical biology?

M Patra, G Gasser - ChemBioChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Organometallic compounds are renowned for their remarkable applications in the field of
catalysis, but much less is known about their potential in chemical biology. Indeed, such …

EuroTracker dyes: highly emissive europium complexes as alternative organelle stains for live cell imaging

SJ Butler, L Lamarque, R Pal, D Parker - Chemical Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Nine very bright europium (III) complexes with different macrocyclic ligands have been
prepared that exhibit excellent cell uptake behaviour and distinctive sub-cellular localisation …

Organometallic complexes of transition metals in luminescent cell imaging applications

FL Thorp-Greenwood, RG Balasingham… - Journal of Organometallic …, 2012 - Elsevier
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