Preface

Chemical moieties occupied with medicinal values are the most important molecules as they cure and control many diseases to make the survival of living beings easier. Medicinal chemists always try their best to produce high quality of medicinal molecules from different branches of chemistry. Coordination compounds, among the various kinds of chemicals, have their unique importance as drug like molecules. Bioactive coordination compounds possess unique mode of drug actions due to versatility of ligands and metal ions attached together in different mode of coordination. Among the commercially available frontline drugs for curing many lethal diseases, metal based pharmaceutics like Cisplatin, Carboplatin, Oxaliplatin, Salvarsan, Auranofin, Bactiracin zinc salt etc. also cover an enough part of global pharmaceutical industries. Diagnosis capital is also roofed with Gadobutrol and Gadodiamide, Gd(III) complexes, as the commercial MRI contrasting agent. After taking an insight of these enthralled medicinal, diagnostic and theranostic appeal of metal complexes, pharmaco-researchers are focusing on the developments of potent metallic therapeutic moiety. The first volume of the book entitled “Coordination compounds for Pharmaceuticals and Drug delivery systems” is a compilation of advancements and research findings in the area of novel metal complex designing and bioactive applications from antibacterial to anticancer. An exhaustive discussion on bioactivity of metal complexes on life style generated diseases like diabetes is also focused in a chapter of the book. The advantages of coordination compounds in different drug delivery systems have also been discussed in the chapters embedded here.

I hope this compilation will be advantageous for all the personnel belonging to drug chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, coordination chemistry and bio-inorganic chemistry from academia to research to industries in a very simple and comprehensive style of service as a book.