Novel Au Carbene Complexes as Promising Multi-Target Agents in Breast Cancer Treatment.

ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, metal complexes based on N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have attracted great attention due to their wide and exciting applications in material sciences and medicinal chemistry. In particular, the gold-based complexes are the focus of research efforts for the development of new anticancer compounds. Literature data and recent results, obtained by our research group, reported the design, the synthesis and the good anticancer activity of some silver and gold complexes with NHC ligands. In particular, some of these complexes were active towards some breast cancer cell lines. Considering this evidence, here we report some new Au-NHC complexes prepared in order to improve solubility and biological activity. Among them, the compounds 1 and 6 showed an in

SUBMITTER: Ceramella J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9146163 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature