Medicinal Chemistry of Metal Complexes: Design, Synthesis and Evaluation
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 1349
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Interests: coordination complexes; inorganic biochemistry; medicinal chemistry; biological activity; drug design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal-based drugs and metal complexes continue to be of great interest in medicinal chemistry due to their diversity in biological application. They can play a key role in various biochemical processes in living beings and are essential for catalysis, photochemistry, etc., in biological systems.
Throughout history, metal-based drugs have been used, but the discovery of cisplatin was a breakthrough moment that motivated researchers to design and synthesize more metal complexes for use in biological treatment. Platinum-based drugs, especially cisplatin, are undoubtedly the most commonly used metal complexes in the treatment of cancer, but a large number of complex compounds based on other metals (palladium, gold, ruthenium, silver, tin, rhodium, etc.) are also used as antitumor drugs.
This Special Issue, “Medicinal Chemistry of Metal Complexes: Design, Synthesis and Evaluation”, focuses on the growing knowledge in coordination chemistry that is crucial for the design of new compounds for therapeutic and diagnostic use, such as in cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease therapy, or any other use of metal-based drugs as possible medicines for a biological targets in living organisms. The evaluation can additionally refer to any interesting features of metal complexes such as their optical, magnetic, electrical, crystal or even nanostructure properties.
Here, we welcome original research articles and reviews. It is of great value to clearly organize the presented data, so that the article is easy to read even for researchers outside this field.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Bojana B. Zmejkovski
Prof. Dr. Goran Kaluđerović
Dr. Nebojša Pantelić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal complexes
- medicinal chemistry
- bioinorganic chemistry
- coordination chemistry
- organometallics
- metal-based drugs
- biological activity
- toxicology
- biomedical application
- drug delivery
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