Gold: not just jewelry...

Federica Brescia, Luca Ronconi

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)647-650
Number of pages4
JournalFuture Medicinal Chemistry
Volume15
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2023

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Papain-Like Protease (PL)
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)
  • anticancer agents
  • antiviral agents
  • gold complexes
  • metal-based glycoconjugates
  • metallodrugs

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