Traditional organic antimicrobials mainly act on specific biochemical processes such as
replication, transcription and translation. However, the emergence and wide spread of …

Consumption of pathogenic contaminated water has claimed the lives of many people.
Hence, this scenario has emphasized the urgent need for research methods to avoid, treat …

The quest for alternative drugs to the well-known cisplatin and its derivatives, which are still
used in more than 50% of the treatment regimes for patients suffering from cancer, is highly …

The discovery of cisplatin's antitumor activity in 1969 prompted the search for novel metal-
containing complexes as potential anticancer drugs. Among these novel complexes, metal N …

Metal complexes with N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands are widely used in chemistry
due to their catalytic properties and applied for olefin metathesis among other reactions. The …

Silver coordination compounds with a number of different ligands (N-heterocyclic carbenes,
phosphines, N-heterocycles and others) possess several properties, ranging from …

This tutorial review compiles the advances that have been achieved in using transition metal
complexes containing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands as components for materials …

Ofele and Wanzlick reported the synthesis of the first N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-metal
complexes in 1968. 1, 2 The isolation of the first free carbene by Arduengo in 1991 set the …

An N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) contains a carbene carbon incorporated in a nitrogen-
containing heterocycle, presumably reactive and difficult to isolate. 1 The first isolation of …

Carbenes, thought of only as transient species for a long time, have become ubiquitous in
organometallic chemistry. Their interaction with a metal center, which allows for their …