TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES OF AMINO ACIDS AND RELATED LIGANDS AND THEIR USE AS CATALYSTS, ANTI-MICROBIALS, AND ANTI-CANCER AGENTS
申请人:Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
公开号:US20130096090A1
公开(公告)日:2013-04-18
The present invention relates to the fields of chemistry and pharmaceuticals. Embodiments of the present invention provide transition metal complexes of amino acids. Transition metal complexes of embodiments of the invention according to Categories I, II, III, and/or IV may be used as antimicrobial, anti-malarial, and anti-cancer agents, as well as catalysts in chemical reactions. Such compounds of the invention are particularly useful for combating multi-drug resistance against a broad range of microbials (such as MRSA and mycobacteria), including gram positive and gram negative bacteria, as well as can be used as anti-cancer agents against bladder cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer, endometrial cancer, kidney cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and thyroid cancer, to name a few.
本发明涉及化学和制药领域。本发明实施例提供了氨基酸的过渡金属配合物。根据本发明的实施例的过渡金属配合物可用作抗微生物、抗疟疾和抗癌剂,以及化学反应中的催化剂。本发明的这类化合物特别适用于对抗广泛范围微生物(如MRSA和分枝杆菌)的多药耐药性,包括革兰氏阳性和革兰氏阴性细菌,也可用作抗癌剂对抗膀胱癌、乳腺癌、结肠癌、直肠癌、子宫内膜癌、肾癌、白血病、肺癌、黑色素瘤、非霍奇金淋巴瘤、胰腺癌、前列腺癌和甲状腺癌等。