Cancer remains one of the world's deadliest diseases, claiming many lives each day. Transition metal complexes are leading candidates in developing anticancer agens with cisplatin used in chemotherapy worldwide. Copper, an endogenous metal in the human body, is especially attractive because of its typical redox biological activities and a relatively strong affinity to nucleobases. A series of Cu(II) complexes with ethane-1,2-diamine as the amine part and pentane-2,4-dione and/or 1-phenylbutane-1,3-dione, pentane-2,4-dione and/or 1,1,1- trifluoropentane-2,4-dione, or 1,1,1-trifluoropentane-2,4-dione and/or 1-phenylbutane-1,3-dione as the ...
Aleksandar Mijatović, Angelina Z. Caković, Aleksandar Lolić, Olivera Klisurić, Marko N. Živanović, Dragana S. Šeklić, Snežana Sretenović, Marija Ilić, Jovana Bogojeski. "Structure, interaction with biomolecules, and cytotoxicity of copper (II) complexes chelating some Schiff base ligands" in Applied Organometallic Chemistry, Wiley (2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/aoc.7253