Gold: not just jewelry…
Federica Brescia1, Luca Ronconi1
1School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, University Road, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.
Future Medicinal Chemistry
|May 11, 2023
Abstract:
Plain language summary From jewels and coinage to anticancer and antiviral agents, the peculiar 'soft' character as well as physicochemical, redox and ligand exchange properties of gold can be exploited to design novel bioactive complexes, which may open up new perspectives to the development of drugs for therapeutic and diagnostic applications.


