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Benzyl-substituted metallocarbene antibiotics and anticancer drugs
1University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. fraukehackenberg@web.de matthias.tacke@ucd.ie.
Abstract:
Benzyl-substituted metallocarbene compounds synthesised by our group and others during the past 5 years give a new perspective on their activity as antibiotic and antitumoral drugs. N-heterocyclic carbenes containing an imidazole core were functionalised and their transition metal complexes (M = Ag, Au, Cu, Ru) have shown promising antibacterial as well as anticancer activity in vitro and in vivo. IC50 values in the nanomolar region or antibacterial activity comparable to conventional antibiotics lead the way towards novel drug candidates.
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