What does the future hold for photo-oxidizing Ru II complexes with polyazaaromatic ligands in medicinal chemistry?

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 185-196

  Ghesquière, Jonathan ^a   Le Gac, Stéphane ^b   Marcélis, Lionel ^a   Moucheron, Cécile ^a   Kirsch de Mesmaeker, Andrée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES CHIMIQUES DE RENNES   (France)

Author keywords

Diagnostic agent; DNA; Oligonucleotide; Photo therapeutic agent; Ruthenium

Indexed keywords

1,4,5,8 TETRAAZAPHENANTHRENE; 1,4,5,8,9,12 HEXAAZATRIPHENYLENE; 2,2' BIPYRAZINE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; LIGAND; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; RUTHENIUM COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; DNA STRAND; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; PHOTOOXIDATION; TELOMERE;

AZA COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; COORDINATION COMPLEXES; DNA; DRUG DISCOVERY; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; LIGANDS; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; RUTHENIUM;

EID: 84856497131     PISSN: 15680266     EISSN: 18734294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156802612799079008     Document Type: Article

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