Noble metals in medicine: Latest advances

S Medici, M Peana, VM Nurchi, JI Lachowicz… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Update on metal N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as potential anti-tumor metallodrugs

W Liu, R Gust - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The clinical success of platinum-based chemotherapeutic agents was of enormous impact
on the discovery of novel metal N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes as potential anti …

Recent developments in the medicinal applications of silver-NHC complexes and imidazolium salts

NA Johnson, MR Southerland, WJ Youngs - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Because of their great structural diversity and multitude of chemical properties, N-
heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have been utilized in a variety of capacities. Most recently …

Silver complexes as anticancer agents: A perspective review

SK Raju, A Karunakaran, S Kumar, P Sekar… - German Journal of …, 2022 - gjpb.de
Metal complexes gained more attention in the medical field, particularly cancer treatment,
due to their enhanced potential and redox ability. These complexes exhibited more …

Synthesis, characterization and bioactivities of dative donor ligand N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) precursors and their Ag (I) NHC coordination compounds

A Kazancı, Y Gök, R Kaya, A Aktaş, P Taslimi, İ Gülçin - Polyhedron, 2021 - Elsevier
This study contains the synthesis of N-phthalimidomethyl-substituted NHC precursors and
their Ag (I) NHC coordination compounds. The NHC precursors were synthesized from the 1 …

Functionalized benzimidazole scaffolds: privileged heterocycle for drug design in therapeutic medicine

OO Ajani, DV Aderohunmu, CO Ikpo… - Archiv der …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Benzimidazole derivatives are crucial structural scaffolds found in diverse libraries of
biologically active compounds which are therapeutically useful agents in drug discovery and …

Human colon cancer targeted pro-apoptotic, anti-metastatic and cytostatic effects of binuclear Silver (I)–N-Heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes

M Asif, MA Iqbal, MA Hussein, CE Oon… - European journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The current mechanistic study was conducted to explore the effects of increased lipophilicity
of binuclear silver (I)–NHC complexes on cytotoxicity. Two new silver (I)–N-Heterocyclic …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis, structural characterization of silver (I)-NHC complexes and their antimicrobial, antioxidant and antitumor activities

I Slimani, L Mansour, N Abutaha, AH Harrath… - Journal of King Saud …, 2020 - Elsevier
To prepare a novel series of silver (I) complexes, the interaction of benzimidazolium salts
having their two nitrogen atoms substituted by bulky groups with Ag 2 O in DMF has been …

Novel gold (I)–and gold (III)–N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: synthesis and evaluation of their anticancer properties

BK Rana, A Nandy, V Bertolasi, CW Bielawski… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A novel Au (III)–N-heterocyclic carbene organometallic complex supported by two N-
heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands was synthesized from Au (SMe2) Cl and 1-methyl-2 …

Green synthesis of selenium-N-heterocyclic carbene compounds: Evaluation of antimicrobial and anticancer potential

A Kamal, M Nazari, M Yaseen, MA Iqbal… - Bioorganic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Three benzimidazolium salts (III-V) and respective selenium adducts (VI-VIII) were designed,
synthesized and characterized by various analytical techniques (FT-IR and NMR 1 H, 13 C) …