Comprehensive insights into medicinal research on imidazole-based supramolecular complexes

SR Li, YM Tan, L Zhang, CH Zhou - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The electron-rich five-membered aromatic aza-heterocyclic imidazole, which contains two
nitrogen atoms, is an important functional fragment widely present in a large number of …

Construction of homo and heteronuclear Ru (II), Ir (III) and Re (I) complexes for target specific cancer therapy

S Pete, N Roy, B Kar, P Paira - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
More than 10 million death tolls in 2020 were reported as a result of heinous impact of
cancer, making it second most prime cause of death after cardiovascular diseases. In …

Recent advances in cytotoxicity, cellular uptake and mechanism of action of ruthenium metallodrugs: A review

P Sudhindra, SA Sharma, N Roy, P Moharana, P Paira - Polyhedron, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to these limitations of platinum-based drugs, it has now become a challenge for
researchers to find out a potential scaffold furnished with indispensable properties like …

Mitochondrial targeting half-sandwich iridium (III) and ruthenium (II) dppf complexes and in vitro anticancer assay

J Liu, Y Wu, G Yang, Z Liu, X Liu - Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering the potential application of half-sandwich and ferrocenyl-containing
organometallic complexes in the area of anticancer, four half-sandwich iridium (III)(Ir III) and …

Mitochondria-targeted cyclometalated iridium-β-carboline complexes as potent non-small cell lung cancer therapeutic agents

J Chen, X Guo, D Li, H Tang, J Gao, W Yu, X Zhu… - Metallomics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Natural products and metals play a crucial role in cancer research and the development of
antitumor drugs. We designed and synthesized three new carboline-based cyclometalated …

Cyclometalated Ru (II) β-carboline complexes induce cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human HeLa cervical cancer cells via suppressing ERK and Akt signaling

J Chen, Y Deng, J Wang, S Chen, F Peng, X He… - JBIC Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Two new cyclometalated Ru (II)-β-carboline complexes,[Ru (dmb) 2 (Cl-Ph-βC)](PF6)(dmb=
4, 4′-dimethyl-2, 2′-bipyridine; Cl-Ph-βC= Cl-phenyl-9H-pyrido [3, 4-b] indole; RuβC-3) …