Inflammation and thrombosis are implicated in several chronic disorders. Recent studies have outlined the way in which several compounds can offer protection against inflammation. Within this comprehensive review the so-far reported anti-inflammatory...
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics, like danofloxacin, are considered as crucial veterinary drugs due to their high antibacterial potential, a broad spectrum of activity and good pharmacological properties. However, owing to the widespread use of this group...
Lomefloxacin (F1) and pefloxacin (F2) have a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activities against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. In this study, we investigated the complexation mode, morphological, and biological properties of four metal-bas...
Metal-based drugs, including lanthanide complexes, have been extremely effective in clinical treatments against various diseases and have raised major interest in recent decades. Hence, in this work, a series of lanthanum (III) and cerium (III) compl...
Metal-based complexes contribute a vital part to the available arsenal of cytotoxic agents today [...]
Fatalities caused by infectious diseases (i.e., diseases caused by parasite, bacteria, and viruses) have become reinstated as a major public health threat globally. Factors such as antimicrobial resistance and viral complications are the key contribu...
Although important progress has been made, cancer still remains a complex disease to treat. Serious side effects, the insurgence of resistance and poor selectivity are some of the problems associated with the classical metal-based anti-cancer therapi...
For the structure and functioning of bio-molecules, metals are important. The main focus of research remains the design and synthesis of novel metal-based complexes and metal ion binding to substances in search of novel medicines. Studies have establ...
The chemical reaction between quinolone antibiotic oxolinic acid (OA) and Fe(III), Zn(II), Ca(II), and Mg(II) ions results in the formation of metal-based complexes with the following formulas: [Fe(OA)(H2O)2Cl2]·2H2O, [Zn(OA)(H2O)Cl]·2H...
Highly efficient and stable non-Pt-based electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORRs) are highly desirable in energy conversion and storage systems. Herein, we report a hydrothermally synthesized metal chalcogenide cluster-based framework (...
The scientific interest in the chemical modification of chitosan to increase its solubility and application has led to its conjugation with Schiff bases, which are interesting scaffolds endowed with diverse biological properties. The resultant chitos...
Background/Objective: Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a self-renewing subpopulation within tumors that contribute to heterogeneity and resistance to conventional cancer therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Despite growing interest in CSCs...
Nosocomial bacterial infections are associated with high morbidity and mortality, posing a huge burden to healthcare systems worldwide. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with the raised hospitalization of patients and the increased use of antimicrobial...
Background/Objectives: Infectious diseases represent a serious threat due to rising antimicrobial resistance, particularly among multidrug-resistant bacteria and influenza viruses. Metal-based complexes, such as N-heterocyclic carbene–gold (NHC...
Background/Objectives: Metal-based coordination compounds are attracting attention in medicinal inorganic chemistry because changes in the metal centre can influence their physicochemical properties and biological responses. This study aimed to evalu...
The disadvantages of Cisplatin in anticancer treatment are connected to its poor selectivity, resistance developed of cancers to the drug, and its toxicity against normal organs. An important strategy in anticancer treatment is the synthesis and clin...
The development of new, more effective, and selective anticancer agents is one of the most important tasks of modern medicinal chemistry. Recently, we have found that non-classical Pd(II) pincer complexes derived from thiophosphoryl-appended picolina...
This article reviews the use of metal complexes as contrast agents (CA) and radiopharmaceuticals for the anatomical and functional imaging of the liver. The main focus was on two established imaging modalities: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nu...
Combined treatments employing lower concentrations of different drugs are used and studied to develop new and more effective anticancer therapeutic approaches. The combination therapy could be of great interest in the controlling of cancer. Regarding...
DNA has become the target of metal complexes in cancer drug discovery. Due to the side effects of widely known cisplatin and its derivative compounds, alternative metal-based drug discovery studies are still ongoing. In this study, the DNA-binding ab...
Metal complexes occupy a special place in the field of treatment and diagnostics. Their main advantages stem from the possibility of fine-tuning their thermodynamic properties and kinetic behavior in the biological milieu by applying different approa...
P53 plays a key role in protecting the human genome from DNA-related mutations; however, it is one of the most frequently mutated genes in cancer. The P53 family members p63 and p73 were also shown to play important roles in cancer development and pr...
Injections of highly cytotoxic or immunomodulating drugs directly into the inoperable tumor is a procedure that is increasingly applied in the clinic and uses established Pt-based drugs. It is advantageous for less stable anticancer metal complexes t...
We report the synthesis and characterization of five novel metal complexes. Three of them are vanadium complexes with the general formula [VO(Ln)2], where Ln are Schiff bases derived from the condensation of 2-carbaldehyde-8-hydroxyquinoline with eit...
Metal-based drugs have attracted growing interest in biomedicine [...]
Complexes of Schiff bases (SBs) with metals are promising compounds exhibiting a broad range of applications, such as catalysts, polymers, dyes, and several biological activities, including antimicrobial, anticancer, antioxidant, antimalarial, analge...
Metal complexes play an essential role in pharmaceutical sciences for their multiple and important activities. Schiff bases are versatile pharmacophores able to form chelating complexes with several metals in different oxidation states. Complexes wit...
According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the cancer that affects the largest number of people each year, especially women. Millions of women are diagnosed with it each year, and hundreds of thousands die from it. Research into new...
Due to their peculiar qualities, metal-based nanostructures have been extensively used in applications such as catalysis, electronics, photography, and information storage, among others. New applications for metals in areas such as photonics, sensing...
Schiff bases are organic compounds that are often used as ligands in metal complexes. In addition to the C=N double bond, which is characteristic of Schiff bases, intermolecular hydrogen bonds are frequently observed in both the twisting of planar su...
Metal complexes play a crucial role in pharmaceutical sciences owing to their wide and significant activities. Schiff bases (SBs) are multifaceted pharmacophores capable of forming chelating complexes with various metals in different oxidation states...
A series of Schiff bases derived from 2-acetylpyridne and their metal complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, NMR, FT-IR and UV-Vis spectral studies. The complexes were screened for anti-bacterial activity against Methicillin-resistant St...
Schiff bases have played significant roles in the development of inorganic or coordination chemistry. Three Schiff base (NB, CB and HB) ligands, prepared for the reaction of 2-amino-6-methoxy-benzothiazole with 2-Nitrobenzaldehyde, 2-chlorobenzaldehy...
Composite materials very often provide new catalytic, optical or other physicochemical properties not observed for each component separately. Photofunctions in hybrid systems are an interesting topic of great importance for industry. This review pres...
Cancer remains a formidable challenge, requiring the constant pursuit of novel therapeutic agents and strategies. Scorpionates, known for their unique coordination properties, have recently gained attention for their anticancer potential. Traditional...
The ligand named 1-(3-chlorophenyl)-N-(pyridine-2-yl)methanimine Schiff base was obtained with the method of mixing 2-amino pyridine with 3-chloro benzaldehyde in methanol as an initial material. Transition metals, like Cu(II), were added to the prep...
The reaction of organic molecules mediated by a metal center (template synthesis) can result in a final connectivity that may differ from the one obtained in the absence of the metal. The condensation of carbonyl fragments with primary amines form C=...
Three Schiff base ligands, NQ, CQ and HQ, were prepared from the reaction of quinoline-3-carbohydrazide with 2-nitrobenzaldehyde, 2-chlorobenzaldehyde and 2,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde, respectively, and were investigated for their coordination to Cu (II...
A novel Schiff base ligand derived from 2,2'-bis(p-methoxyphenylamine) and salicylicaldehyde and its transition metal complexes with Cu (Ⅱ), Co (Ⅱ) and Mn (Ⅱ) have been synthesized. Their spectral properties and electrochemical behavior were investig...
In this study, we report the cytotoxicity of a newly synthesized Schiff base HL ((E)-2-ethoxy-6((pyren-1-ylimino)methyl)phenol) and its derived metal complexes (Zn(II), Cu(II), Co(II), Cr(III), and Fe(III)) along with their structural characterizatio...
Traditional organic antimicrobials mainly act on specific biochemical processes such as replication, transcription and translation. However, the emergence and wide spread of microbial resistance is a growing threat for human beings. Therefore, it is...
Nitric oxide (NO), the smallest signalling molecule known in the human body, keeps blood vessels dilated, controls blood pressure, and has numerous other health regulatory effects. The use of Schiff base complexes incorporated onto electrodes to make...
Their demonstrable bioactive characteristics, coupled with their wide structural diversity and coordination versatility, render Schiff bases and their coordination complexes biologically active compounds demonstrating outstanding properties. This res...
Five transition metal(II) complexes, [ML2Cl2] 1~5, were synthesized from the reaction of MCl2·nH2O (M = Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Cd) and the Schiff base ligand 2-[(4-methylphenylimino)methyl]-6-methoxyphenol (C15H15NO2, L), obtained by condensation of o-vanil...
The condensation product of the reaction between aniline and salicylaldehyde was a 2-(2-hydroxybenzylidinemine)—aniline Schiff base bidentate ligand (L). L was used to generate complexes by interacting with the metal ions lanthanum(III), zircon...
In this work, nanosized Cu and Ni Schiff-base complexes, namely ahpvCu, ahpnbCu, and ahpvNi, incorporating imine ligands derived from the condensation of 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine, with either 3-methoxysalicylaldehyde (ahpv) or 4-nitrobenzaldehyde (a...
Condensation of the reaction between enrofloxacin and ethylenediamine in the existence of glacial acetic acid produced a new N,N-ethylene (bis 1-cyclopropyl-7-(4-ethylpiperazin-1-yl)-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid Schiff base (H2Erx-...
Chemistry of Schiff base (SB) ligands began in 1864 due to the discovery made by Hugo Schiff (Schiff, H., Justus Liebigs Ann. der Chemie 1864, 131 (1), 118–119). However, there is still a vivid interest in coordination compounds based on imine...
The crystal structures of two azobenzene derivative Schiff base metal complexes (new C44H40CuN6O2 of P-1 and known C44H38MnN6O7 of P21/c abbreviated as Cu and Mn, respectively) were (re-)determined experimentally using conventional X-ray analysis to...
Bacteria often show resistance against antibiotics due to various mechanisms such as the expression of efflux pumps, biofilm formation, or bacterial quorum sensing (QS) controls. For successful therapy, the discovery of alternative agents is crucial....
of 78