[HTML][HTML] Revisiting metallodrugs for the treatment of skin cancers

CM Manzano, DH Nakahata, REF de Paiva - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Metallodrugs were classically screened against skin cancer (either in vitro or in vivo) at the
peak of the development of platinum anticancer agents. New systematic studies appeared in …

Factors that influence singlet oxygen formation vs. ligand substitution for light-activated ruthenium anticancer compounds

ET Papish, OE Oladipupo - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2022 - Elsevier
This review focuses on light-activated ruthenium anticancer compounds and the factors that
influence which pathway is favored. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is favored by π expansion …

Intraligand excited states turn a ruthenium oligothiophene complex into a light-triggered Ubertoxin with anticancer effects in extreme hypoxia

JA Roque III, HD Cole, PC Barrett… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ru (II) complexes that undergo photosubstitution reactions from triplet metal-centered (3MC)
excited states are of interest in photochemotherapy (PCT) due to their potential to produce …

Near-infrared absorbing Ru (ii) complexes act as immunoprotective photodynamic therapy (PDT) agents against aggressive melanoma

LM Lifshits, JA Roque III, P Konda, S Monro… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Mounting evidence over the past 20 years suggests that photodynamic therapy (PDT), an
anticancer modality known mostly as a local treatment, has the capacity to invoke a systemic …

Ir (III) Half-Sandwich Photosensitizers with a π-Expansive Ligand for Efficient Anticancer Photodynamic Therapy

C Gonzalo-Navarro, E Zafon, JA Organero… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
One approach to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy in cancer treatment is
photodynamic therapy (PDT), which allows spatiotemporal control of the cytotoxicity. We …

Design of a tris-heteroleptic Ru (II) complex with red-light excitation and remarkably improved photobiological activity

S Li, J Zhao, X Wang, G Xu, S Gou, Q Zhao - Inorganic Chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ru (II)-polypyridyl complexes are of increasing interest in photodynamic therapy (PDT) due
to their easily tunable photophysical and photochemical properties. However, short …

Phototoxicity of Tridentate Ru (II) Polypyridyl Complex with Expanded Bite Angles toward Mammalian Cells and Multicellular Tumor Spheroids

RC Curley, CS Burke, KS Gkika, S Noorani… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tridentate ligand-coordinated ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complexes with large N–Ru–N bite
angles have been shown to promote ligand field splitting and reduce singlet–triplet state …

Trifluoromethyl substitution enhances photoinduced activity against breast cancer cells but reduces ligand exchange in Ru (II) complex

AP Lanquist, S Gupta, KF Al-Afyouni, M Al-Afyouni… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of five ruthenium complexes containing triphenyl phosphine groups known to
enhance both cellular penetration and photoinduced ligand exchange, cis-[Ru (bpy) 2 (P …

Bis [pyrrolyl Ru (ii)] triads: a new class of photosensitizers for metal–organic photodynamic therapy

DA Smithen, S Monro, M Pinto, J Roque… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A new family of ten dinuclear Ru (II) complexes based on the bis [pyrrolyl Ru (II)] triad
scaffold, where two Ru (bpy) 2 centers are separated by a variety of organic linkers, was …

Ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complexes with π-expansive ligands: synthesis and cubosome encapsulation for photodynamic therapy of non-melanoma skin cancer

GE Giacomazzo, M Schlich, L Casula… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In photodynamic therapy (PDT), Ru (II) polypyridyl complexes (RPCs) featuring the popular
π-expansive benzo [i] dipyrido [3, 2-a: 2′, 3′-c] phenazine (dppn) ligand have attracted …