History shows that metal-based drugs and remedies have been known and used since very
ancient times. For example, silver was employed in the treatment of wounds and ulcers …

The clinical success of platinum-based chemotherapeutic agents was of enormous impact
on the discovery of novel metal N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes as potential anti …

A new era of metal-based drugs started in the 1960s, heralded by the discovery of potent
platinum-based complexes, commencing with cisplatin [(H3N) 2PtCl2], which are effective …

The field of medicinal inorganic chemistry has grown consistently during the past 50 years;
however, metal-containing coordination compounds represent only a minor proportion of …

While N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) are ubiquitous ligands in catalysis for organic or
industrial syntheses, their potential to form transition metal complexes for medicinal …

This review paper covers the recent (2010–2017) synthetic modifications of the water
soluble cage-like aminophosphine ligand 1, 3, 5-triaza-7-phosphatricyclo [3.3. 1.1] decane …

A range of fluorescent and biologically compatible gold (I)–N-heterocyclic carbenes bearing
acridine as a wingtip group and either a 2-mercaptopyridine or a tetra-O-acetyl-1-thio-β-D …

A series of new heterodinuclear luminescent complexes with two different organic ligands
have been synthesized and characterized. A luminescent RuII (polypyridine) moiety and a …

Organometallic gold complexes with N‐heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands have been
demonstrating promising properties as novel anticancer agents. Gold (I) NHC complexes …

A series of novel (C^ N) cyclometallated Au (III) complexes of general formula [Au (pyb-H)
L1L2] n+ (pyb-H= C^ N cyclometallated 2-benzylpyridine, L1 and L2 being chlorido …