Ferrocene derivatives have attracted significant interest as anticancer, antibacterial,
antifungal and antiparasitic drug candidates. Discovered in the 1990s, the two most …

Despite current developments in therapeutics focusing on biotechnologically-oriented
species, the unflagging utility of small molecules or peptides in medicine is still producing …

The clinical success of the platinum-based chemotherapeutic agents has prompted the
investigation of coordination and organometallic complexes of alternative metal centers for …

From wedding rings on fingers to stained glass windows, by way of Olympic medals, gold
has been highly prized for millennia. Nowadays, organometallic gold compounds occupy an …

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 …

Despite improvements in the 5-year survival rate to over 80% in cancers, such as Hodgkin
lymphoma and testicular cancer, more aggressive tumors including pancreatic and brain …

In this perspective, we discuss iron-complexes as drug candidates that are promising
alternatives to conventional platinum-based chemotherapies owing to their broad range of …

Deaths caused by cancer and bacterial infection necessitate the development of new and
potential compounds with desired properties that could circumvent the problem of chemo …

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 …

Organometallic quinone methides (OM-QMs) have unique chemical and biological
properties compared to their purely organic counterparts, but their originality has not …