Recent advances in iron complexes as potential anticancer agents

WA Wani, U Baig, S Shreaz, RA Shiekh… - New Journal of …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The revelation of the anticancer properties of cisplatin has inspired research into metal
complexes for the treatment of cancer. Several second and third generation cisplatin …

Recent advances in the chemistry of iron-based chemotherapeutic agents

U Basu, M Roy, AR Chakravarty - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The discovery of cisplatin followed by its success in anticancer therapy laid the foundation of
metal-based drug design and development. Further research led to discovery of other …

Metal complexes derived from bidentate ligands: Synthesis, catalytic and biological applications

DI Ugwu, J Conradie - Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
This review focusses on metal complexes containing bidentate ligands. The development in
the synthesis and some applications of these complexes, reported mainly in the last two …

Activation by oxidation: Ferrocene-functionalized Ru (II)-arene complexes with anticancer, antibacterial, and antioxidant properties

C Mu, KE Prosser, S Harrypersad, GA MacNeil… - Inorganic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Organometallic Ru (II)-cymene complexes linked to ferrocene (Fc) via nitrogen heterocycles
have been synthesized and studied as cytotoxic agents. These compounds are analogues …

Potential anticancer heterometallic Fe–Au and Fe–Pd agents: initial mechanistic insights

N Lease, V Vasilevski, M Carreira… - Journal of medicinal …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A series of gold (III) and palladium (II) heterometallic complexes with new
iminophosphorane ligands derived from ferrocenylphosphanes [{Cp-P (Ph2) N-Ph} …

Catalytically generated ferrocene-containing guanidines as efficient precursors for new redox-active heterometallic platinum (II) complexes with anticancer activity

D Nieto, S Bruna, AM Gonzalez-Vadillo, J Perles… - …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The potential of structurally new ferrocene-functionalized guanidines as redox-active
precursors for the synthesis of heterometallic platinum (II)–guanidine complexes with …

Electron transfer studies on ferrocenylthiophenes: synthesis, properties, and electrochemistry

JM Speck, R Claus, A Hildebrandt, T Rüffer… - …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The ferrocenylthiophenes 2, 3-Fc2-c C4H2S (9), 2, 4-Fc2-c C4H2S (10), and 2, 3, 4-Fc3-c
C4HS (11) have been prepared by a 2-or 3-fold Negishi cross-coupling reaction of the …

A spectroscopic, electrochemical and DFT study of para-substituted ferrocene-containing chalcone derivatives: Structure of FcCOCHCH (p-tBuC6H4)

TJ Muller, J Conradie, E Erasmus - Polyhedron, 2012 - Elsevier
A comparative investigation of seven ferrocene-containing chalcones (Fc–CO–CHCH–
C6H4R, with R= OCH3, CH3, Ph, tBu, H, Br and CF3) has been performed based on their …

[HTML][HTML] Design, synthesis and antimicrobial activities of novel ferrocenyl and organic chalcone based sulfones and bis-sulfones

N Ahmed, NK Konduru, M Owais - Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
A variety of different novel functionalized ferrocenyl chalcone and organic chalcone based
sulfones and bis-sulfones were synthesized in excellent yield under mild reaction condition …

Ferrocene conjugated copper (II) complexes of terpyridine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) anticancer ligands showing selective toxicity towards cancer cells

B Deka, A Bhattacharyya, S Mukherjee… - Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Six novel mixed‐ligand copper (II) complexes, namely,[Cu (R‐tpy)(L)] NO3 (1–6), where R‐
tpy is 4′‐phenyl‐2, 2′: 6′, 2′′‐terpyridine (Ph‐tpy; 1–3) and 4′‐ferrocenyl‐2, 2 …