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Opening the lid on piano-stool complexes: An account of ruthenium(II)–arene complexes with medicinal applications

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The origins of the field are described, the design of compounds that inhibit enzymes are designed, the application of multinuclear systems to act as drug delivery vehicles, and the development of bioanalytical and biophysical methods are highlighted to help elucidate the mechanisms by which these compounds function.
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This article is published in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry.The article was published on 2014-02-01. It has received 226 citations till now.

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Antitumour metal compounds: more than theme and variations

TL;DR: The recent achievement of oxaliplatin for the treatment of colon cancer should not belie the imbalance between a plethora of investigated complexes and a very small number of clinically approved platinum drugs.
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Ferrocifen type anti cancer drugs.

TL;DR: It is shown here the different antitumoral approaches offered by ferrocifen derivatives, originally simple derivatives of tamoxifen, which over the course of their development have proved to possess remarkable structural and mechanistic diversity.
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The development of RAPTA compounds for the treatment of tumors

TL;DR: Ruthenium(II)-arene RAPTA-type compounds have been extensively explored for their medicinal properties and a comprehensive review of this class of compounds is provided in this article.
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Metal-based drugs that break the rules

TL;DR: This work highlights compounds that are apparently incompatible with the more classical (platinum-derived) concepts employed in the development of metal-based anticancer drugs, with respect to both compound design and the approaches used to validate their utility.
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Recent advances in supramolecular and biological aspects of arene ruthenium(II) complexes

TL;DR: A review of the recent developments of arene ruthenium complexes towards both supramolecular chemistry and biology can be found in this paper, where the authors focus on the recent development of these compounds towards both biology and chemistry.
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Inhibition of topoisomerase II catalytic activity by two ruthenium compounds: a ligand-dependent mode of action.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the difference in ligands and their orientation around a metal atom may be responsible for topoisomerase II poisoning by the first complex and not by the second, and a probable mechanism is proposed for [RuCl2(C6H6)(dmso)], where the ruthenium atom interacts with DNA and ligands of the metal atom form cross-links with topoisomersase II.
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Combining Metallasupramolecular Chemistry with Dynamic Covalent Chemistry: Synthesis of Large Molecular Cages

TL;DR: Ru-built cube: By combining metallasupramolecular chemistry with dynamic covalent chemistry, complex nanostructures can be formed.
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Arene−Ruthenium(II) Complexes Containing Amino−Phosphine Ligands as Catalysts for Nitrile Hydration Reactions

TL;DR: In this article, three different series of mononuclear arene-ruthenium(II) complexes containing amino-phosphine ligands were synthesized and fully characterized.
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Studies on DNA damage and induction of SOS repair by novel multifunctional bioreducible compounds. II. A metronidazole adduct of a ruthenium-arene compound.

TL;DR: Results with intact cells suggested a greater selective cytotoxicity with metronidazole coordinated to ruthenium than attained with the free ligand, and a higher differential activity under hypoxic reduction conditions, due to activation of the NO2 group.
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