Recent advances on organelle specific Ru (II)/Ir (III)/Re (I) based complexes for photodynamic therapy

B Kar, U Das, N Roy, P Paira - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Organelle specificity is an important facet of more efficient and highly selective drugs with
reduced side effects which have now been the great challenge to the scientists. In …

Control and utilization of ruthenium and rhodium metal complex excited states for photoactivated cancer therapy

JD Knoll, C Turro - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The use of visible light to produce highly selective and potent drugs through photodynamic
therapy (PDT) holds much potential in the treatment of cancer. PDT agents can be designed …

[PDF][PDF] An amphiphilic ruthenium polymetallodrug for combined photodynamic therapy and photochemotherapy in vivo

W Sun, S Li, B Häupler, J Liu, S Jin, W Steffen… - Adv. Mater, 2017 - d-nb.info
The success of several FDA-approved platinum anticancer drugs has stimulated increasing
interest in the development of new metallodrugs.[1] Ruthenium (Ru) complexes are potential …

Harnessing ruthenium (II) as photodynamic agents: Encouraging advances in cancer therapy

J Liu, C Zhang, TW Rees, L Ke, L Ji, H Chao - Coordination Chemistry …, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite their past triumphs, platinum-based therapeutics remain limited by chemo-
resistance and severe side effects. As an alternative therapeutic modality which bypasses …

Luminescent ruthenium (II) polypyridine complexes for a wide variety of biomolecular and cellular applications

J Shum, PKK Leung, KKW Lo - Inorganic Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ruthenium (II) polypyridine complexes are one of the most extensively studied and
developed systems in the family of luminescent transition-metal complexes. Notably, there …

Exploitation of Long-Lived 3IL Excited States for Metal–Organic Photodynamic Therapy: Verification in a Metastatic Melanoma Model

R Lincoln, L Kohler, S Monro, H Yin… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Members of a family of Ru (II)-appended pyrenylethynylene dyads were synthesized,
characterized according to their photophysical and photobiological properties, and …

Ru (II) dyads derived from α-oligothiophenes: A new class of potent and versatile photosensitizers for PDT

G Shi, S Monro, R Hennigar, J Colpitts, J Fong… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ru (II) dyads derived from organic units that impart low-lying 3 IL excited states combine the
most attractive features of organic photosensitizers with those of coordination complexes …

A selective and cell-permeable mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) inhibitor preserves mitochondrial bioenergetics after hypoxia/reoxygenation injury

JJ Woods, N Nemani, S Shanmughapriya… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Mitochondrial Ca2+ (mCa2+) uptake mediated by the mitochondrial calcium uniporter
(MCU) plays a critical role in signal transduction, bioenergetics, and cell death, and its …

New Ru(II) Complexes for Dual Photoreactivity: Ligand Exchange and 1O2 Generation

JD Knoll, BA Albani, C Turro - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Uncovering the factors that govern the electronic structure of Ru (II)–polypyridyl
complexes is critical in designing new compounds for desired photochemical reactions, and …

Photoactivated in vitro anticancer activity of rhenium (I) tricarbonyl complexes bearing water-soluble phosphines

SC Marker, SN MacMillan, WR Zipfel, Z Li… - Inorganic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Fifteen water-soluble rhenium compounds of the general formula [Re (CO) 3 (NN)(PR3)]+,
where NN is a diimine ligand and PR3 is 1, 3, 5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA), tris …