Phototherapeutic anticancer strategies with first-row transition metal complexes: a critical review

L Gourdon, K Cariou, G Gasser - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) are therapeutic
techniques based on a photosensitizer (PS) and light. These techniques allow the spatial …

The medicinal chemistry of ferrocene and its derivatives

M Patra, G Gasser - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Ferrocene derivatives have attracted significant interest as anticancer, antibacterial,
antifungal and antiparasitic drug candidates. Discovered in the 1990s, the two most …

Advances in copper complexes as anticancer agents

C Santini, M Pellei, V Gandin, M Porchia… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Medicinal inorganic chemistry offers additional opportunities for the design of therapeutic
agents not accessible to organic compounds. 1− 3 The wide range of coordination numbers …

A new age for iron: antitumoral ferrocenes

SS Braga, AMS Silva - Organometallics, 2013 - ACS Publications
From the core of the earth to the core of the archetypal organometallic compound ferrocene,
iron and its compounds contribute to create many aspects of our reality: the earth's …

Novel mitochondria targeted copper (II) complexes of ferrocenyl terpyridine and anticancer active 8-hydroxyquinolines showing remarkable cytotoxicity, DNA and …

B Deka, T Sarkar, S Banerjee, A Kumar… - Dalton …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal complexes with organelle specificity and potent but selective cytotoxicity are highly
desirable. In this work, we report the synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity of six novel …

Metallomics insights into the programmed cell death induced by metal-based anticancer compounds

CP Tan, YY Lu, LN Ji, ZW Mao - Metallomics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Since the discovery of cisplatin more than 40 years ago, enormous research efforts have
been dedicated to developing metal-based anticancer agents and to elucidating the …

Monitoring of the ADP/ATP ratio by induced circularly polarised europium luminescence

S Shuvaev, MA Fox, D Parker - Angewandte Chemie, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A series of three europium complexes bearing picolyl amine moieties was found to possess
differing binding affinities towards Zn2+ and three nucleotides: AMP, ADP, and ATP. A large …

Terpyridines as promising antitumor agents: An overview of their discovery and development

R Musiol, P Malecki, M Pacholczyk… - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The fused aromatic system of terpyridines makes them good, innocent ligands
for various metals. The resulting complexes have been extensively studied for both their …

Antitumor activity of synthetic three copper (II) complexes with terpyridine ligands

Y Yang, FF Guo, CF Chen, YL Li, H Liang… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Three new synthetic terpyridine copper (II) complexes were characterized. The copper (II)
complexes induced apoptosis of three cancer cell lines and arrested T-24 cell cycle in G1 …

Photocytotoxicity of copper (II) complexes of curcumin and N-ferrocenylmethyl-L-amino acids

TK Goswami, S Gadadhar, B Gole, AA Karande… - European journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Copper (II) complexes [Cu (Fc-aa)(cur)](1–3) of curcumin (Hcur) and N-ferrocenylmethyl-l-
amino acids (Fc-aa), viz., ferrocenylmethyl-l-tyrosine (Fc-TyrH), ferrocenylmethyl-l …