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 …

Organometallic anticancer compounds

G Gasser, I Ott, N Metzler-Nolte - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
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 …

Understanding cancer and the anticancer activities of naphthoquinones–a review

KW Wellington - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The non-communicable disease, cancer, is one of the major causes of death across the
world and is forecast to increase by 75% to reach close to 25 million cases over the next two …

Antimalarial application of quinones: A recent update

OPS Patel, RM Beteck, LJ Legoabe - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Atovaquone belongs to a naphthoquinone class of drugs and is used in combination with
proguanil (Malarone) for the treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria caused by …

[HTML][HTML] The trypanocidal activity of naphthoquinones: a review

AV Pinto, SL de Castro - Molecules, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Naphthoquinones are compounds present in several families of higher plants. Their
molecular structures confer redox properties, and they are involved in multiple biological …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in 1, 4-benzoquinone chemistry

I Abraham, R Joshi, P Pardasani… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
1, 4-Benzoquinones are ubiquitous in nature and can be synthesized by diverse strategies.
Recent developments on their synthetic methodologies, cycloaddition reactions …

1, 4-Naphthoquinone analogues: Potent antibacterial agents and mode of action evaluation

P Ravichandiran, S Sheet, D Premnath, AR Kim… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
1, 4-Naphthoquinones have antibacterial activity and are a promising new class of
compound that can be used to treat bacterial infections. The goal was to improve effective …

Histone deacetylases as new therapeutic targets in triple-negative breast cancer: Progress and promises

N Garmpis, C Damaskos, A Garmpi… - Cancer Genomics & …, 2017 - cgp.iiarjournals.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) lacks expression of estrogen receptor (ER),
progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2 gene. It comprises approximately 15-20% of breast …

Cytotoxicity and mode of action of a naturally occurring naphthoquinone, 2-acetyl-7-methoxynaphtho [2, 3-b] furan-4, 9-quinone towards multi-factorial drug-resistant …

V Kuete, AT Mbaveng, LP Sandjo, M Zeino, T Efferth - Phytomedicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Malignacies are still a major public concern worldwide and despite the intensive
search of new chemotherapeutic agents, treatment still remains a challenging issue. The …

Click chemistry-assisted synthesis of novel aminonaphthoquinone-1, 2, 3-triazole hybrids and investigation of their cytotoxicity and cancer cell cycle alterations

M Gholampour, S Ranjbar, N Edraki, M Mohabbati… - Bioorganic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract A series of 12 novel 1, 4-naphthoquinone-1, 2, 3-triazole hybrids were designed
and synthesized through copper-catalyzed click reaction of 2-(prop-2-ynylamino) …