An overview of advancement of organoruthenium (II) complexes as prospective anticancer agents

M Bashir, IA Mantoo, F Arjmand, S Tabassum… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The successful clinical translation of platinum drugs for cancer treatment has witnessed an
upsurge in the development of metal compounds as therapeutics and diagnostics drugs …

Group 9 organometallic compounds for therapeutic and bioanalytical applications

DL Ma, DSH Chan, CH Leung - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Compared with organic small molecules, metal complexes offer several distinct
advantages as therapeutic agents or biomolecular probes. Carbon atoms are typically …

Cyclometalated iridium (III) complexes as lysosome-targeted photodynamic anticancer and real-time tracking agents

L He, Y Li, CP Tan, RR Ye, MH Chen, JJ Cao, LN Ji… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-activatable photosensitizers (PSs) are highly desirable for photodynamic therapy
(PDT) to selectively demolish tumor cells. On the other hand, lysosomes are emerging as …

Rhodium (III)–Picolinamide Complexes Act as Anticancer and Antimetastasis Agents via Inducing Apoptosis and Autophagy

YQ Gu, K Yang, QY Yang, HQ Li, MQ Hu… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As a continuation of our endeavors in discovering metal-based drugs with cytotoxic and
antimetastatic activities, herein, we reported the syntheses of 11 new rhodium (III) …

Electrochemical NADH Regeneration Mediated by Pyridine Amidate Iridium Complexes Interconverting 1, 4-and 1, 6-NADH

C Trotta, G Menendez Rodriguez, C Zuccaccia… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Although there is a huge interest in redox mediators for the selective electrochemical
regeneration of 1, 4-NADH, only the class of rhodium compounds with bipyridine ligands …

Half-Sandwich Iridium(III), Rhodium(III), and Ruthenium(II) Complexes Chelating Hybrid sp2-N/sp3-N Donor Ligands to Achieve Improved Anticancer Selectivity

L Guo, P Li, J Li, Y Gong, X Li, Y Liu, K Yu… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The biological efficacy of half-sandwich platinum group organometallic complexes of the
formula [(η5-Cpx)/(η6-arene) M (XY) Cl] 0/+(XY= bidentate ligands; Cpx= functionalized …

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 …

Single-Site Iridium Picolinamide Catalyst Immobilized onto Silica for the Hydrogenation of CO2 and the Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid

L Tensi, AV Yakimov, C Trotta, C Domestici… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for storing H2 into CO2 and
releasing it from the produced formic acid, when needed, is a crucial target for overcoming …

Intracellular transfer hydrogenation mediated by unprotected organoiridium catalysts

S Bose, AH Ngo, LH Do - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In the present work, we show for the first time that the conversion of aldehydes to alcohols
can be achieved using “unprotected” iridium transfer hydrogenation catalysts inside living …

Iridium (III) complexes targeting apoptotic cell death in cancer cells

DL Ma, C Wu, KJ Wu, CH Leung - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Targeting apoptosis is a principal strategy in the design of anticancer drugs. In recent years,
non-platinum-based scaffolds have been exploited as viable candidates for the exploitation …