Design concepts of half-sandwich organoruthenium anticancer agents based on bidentate bioactive ligands

WDJ Tremlett, DM Goodman, TR Steel, S Kumar… - Coordination chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
The small molecule anticancer agent cisplatin and its Pt (II) analogs carboplatin and
oxaliplatin are widely used to treat a variety of tumorigenic diseases. Despite their structural …

Ruthenium (II)–arene complexes as anti-metastatic agents, and related techniques

C Sonkar, S Sarkar, S Mukhopadhyay - RSC medicinal chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
With the discovery of cisplatin, a vast area of applications of metallodrugs in cancer
treatment was opened but due to the side effects caused by the cisplatin complexes …

Ruthenium polypyridyl complex inhibits growth and metastasis of breast cancer cells by suppressing FAK signaling with enhancement of TRAIL-induced apoptosis

W Cao, W Zheng, T Chen - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Ruthenium-based complexes have emerged as promising antitumor and antimetastatic
agents during the past decades. However, the limited understanding of the antimetastatic …

Transport of the Ruthenium Complex [Ru(GA)(dppe)2]PF6 into Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells Is Facilitated by Transferrin Receptors

MA Naves, AE Graminha, LC Vegas… - Molecular …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The triple-negative breast cancer subtype (TNBC) is highly aggressive and metastatic and
corresponds to 15–20% of diagnosed cases. TNBC treatment is hampered, because these …

Multifaceted half-sandwich arene–ruthenium complexes: interactions with biomolecules, photoactivation, and multinuclearity approach

SK Singh, DS Pandey - RSC Advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological properties of the arene–ruthenium complexes have attracted substantial current
interest. Their activity is appreciably defined and controlled by the arene moieties, organic …

Arene ruthenium (II) complexes as low-toxicity inhibitor against the proliferation, migration, and invasion of MDA-MB-231 cells through binding and stabilizing c-myc G …

Q Wu, K Zheng, S Liao, Y Ding, Y Li, W Mei - Organometallics, 2016 - ACS Publications
Arene Ru (II) complexes have long been extensively studied as potential inhibitors against
the proliferation of tumor cells, but their behavior against the migration and invasion of tumor …

Thermoresponsive organometallic arene ruthenium complexes for tumour targeting

CM Clavel, E Păunescu, P Nowak-Sliwinska… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Application of mild hyperthermia can increase the cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs in tumour
cells. In this report, we describe low molecular weight thermoactive ruthenium-based drugs …

Exploring heterometallic bridged Pt (II)-Zn (II) complexes as potential antitumor agents

TV Soldatović, B Šmit, EM Mrkalić, SL Matić… - Journal of inorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
The four novel complexes [{cis-PtCl (NH 3) 2 (μ-4, 4′-bipyridyl) ZnCl (terpy)}](ClO 4) 2
(C1),[{trans-PtCl (NH 3) 2 (μ-4, 4′-bipyridyl) ZnCl (terpy)}](ClO 4) 2 (C2),[{cis-PtCl (NH 3) 2 …

Strong in Vitro Cytotoxic Potential of New Ruthenium–Cymene Complexes

S Nikolic, DM Opsenica, V Filipovic… - …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Two p-cymenerutheniumchlorido complexes with thiourea derivative of 7-chloroquinoline
(C1) and pyridine-3-imidazole (C2) were synthesized starting from [(η6-p-cymene) RuCl2] 2 …

Multi-targeted organometallic ruthenium (II)–arene anticancer complexes bearing inhibitors of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1: A strategy to improve cytotoxicity

Z Wang, H Qian, SM Yiu, J Sun, G Zhu - Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Small-molecule inhibitors of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) have currently
drawn much attention as promising chemotherapeutic drug candidates, and there is a need …