List of works - Abraha Habtemariam

"Head-to-head" double-hamburger-like structure of di-ruthenated d(GpG) adducts of mono-functional Ru-arene anticancer complexes

scientific article published on 10 November 2016

106Ru radiolabelling of the antitumour complex [(eta6-fluorene)Ru(en)Cl]PF6.

scientific article published on 4 October 2007

Activation Mechanisms for Organometallic Anticancer Complexes

article published in 2010

Anti-colorectal cancer activity of an organometallic osmium arene azopyridine complex

scholarly article by Steve D. Shnyder et al published 2011 in MedChemComm

Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation by synthetic catalysts in cancer cells.

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Bifunctional Amine-Tethered Ruthenium(II) Arene Complexes Form Monofunctional Adducts on DNA

scientific article published on 13 September 2007

Bipyrimidine ruthenium(II) arene complexes: structure, reactivity and cytotoxicity.

scientific article

Catalysis of regioselective reduction of NAD+ by ruthenium(II) arene complexes under biologically relevant conditions.

scientific article

Catalytic organometallic anticancer complexes

scholarly article

Chelate ring-opening aminophosphine complexes of ruthenium(II)

Chlorido-, aqua-, 9-ethylguanine- and 9-ethyladenine-adducts of cytotoxic ruthenium arene complexes containing O,O-chelating ligands

scientific article published on 10 May 2007

Chloro half-sandwich osmium(II) complexes: influence of chelated N,N-ligands on hydrolysis, guanine binding, and cytotoxicity.

scientific article published on 19 April 2007

Combatting AMR: photoactivatable ruthenium(ii)-isoniazid complex exhibits rapid selective antimycobacterial activity.

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

Competition between glutathione and guanine for a ruthenium(II) arene anticancer complex: detection of a sulfenato intermediate

scientific article

Contrasting Anticancer Activity of Half-Sandwich Iridium(III) Complexes Bearing Functionally Diverse 2-Phenylpyridine Ligands

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Contrasting cellular uptake pathways for chlorido and iodido iminopyridine ruthenium arene anticancer complexes

scientific article

Contrasting reactivity and cancer cell cytotoxicity of isoelectronic organometallic iridium(III) complexes

scientific article published on 27 May 2011

Controlling ligand substitution reactions of organometallic complexes: tuning cancer cell cytotoxicity.

scientific article

Controlling the reactivity of ruthenium(II) arene complexes by tether ring-opening

scientific article

Correction to “Differences in the Cellular Response and Signaling Pathways between Cisplatin and Monodentate Organometallic Ru(II) Antitumor Complexes Containing a Terphenyl Ligand”

scholarly article published in Molecular Pharmaceutics

Corrigendum: Upconverting Nanoparticles Prompt Remote Near-Infrared Photoactivation of Ru(II)-Arene Complexes

scientific article published on 16 August 2016

Crystal packing and hydrogen bonding in platinum(II) nucleotide complexes: X-ray crystal structure of [Pt(MeSCH(2)CH(2)SMe)(5'-GMP-N7)(2)].6H(2)O.

scientific article published in February 2002

Cytotoxicity, cellular uptake, and DNA interactions of new monodentate ruthenium(II) complexes containing terphenyl arenes.

scientific article

De novo generation of singlet oxygen and ammine ligands by photoactivation of a platinum anticancer complex

scientific article

Design of photoactivatable metallodrugs: Selective and rapid light-induced ligand dissociation from half-sandwich [Ru([9]aneS3)(N–N′)(py)]2+ complexes

article by Giulio Ragazzon et al published December 2012 in Inorganica Chimica Acta

Designing organometallic compounds for catalysis and therapy

scientific article published on 19 April 2012

Differences in the cellular response and signaling pathways between cisplatin and monodentate organometallic Ru(II) antitumor complexes containing a terphenyl ligand.

scientific article published on 19 April 2011

Dual Triggering of DNA Binding and Fluorescence via Photoactivation of a Dinuclear Ruthenium(II) Arene Complex

scientific article published on 12 May 2007

Effect of sulfonamidoethylenediamine substituents in RuII arene anticancer catalysts on transfer hydrogenation of coenzyme NAD+ by formate.

scientific article published on 13 April 2018

Electrophilic Activation of Oxidized Sulfur Ligands and Implications for the Biological Activity of Ruthenium(II) Arene Anticancer Complexes

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Five-coordinate aminophosphine platinum(II) complexes containing cysteine derivatives as ligands

Half-sandwich arene ruthenium(II)-enzyme complex

scientific article

Half-sandwich rhodium(III) transfer hydrogenation catalysts: Reduction of NAD(+) and pyruvate, and antiproliferative activity

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Hydrosulfide Adducts of Organo-Iridium Anticancer Complexes

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Improved Catalytic Activity of Ruthenium–Arene Complexes in the Reduction of NAD+

In vivo tumour and metastasis reduction and in vitro effects on invasion assays of the ruthenium RM175 and osmium AFAP51 organometallics in the mammary cancer model.

scientific article

In-Cell Activation of Organo-Osmium(II) Anticancer Complexes

scientific article

In-Cell Activation of Organo-Osmium(II) Anticancer Complexes

scholarly article by Russell J. Needham et al published 21 December 2016 in Angewandte Chemie

Influence of oxygenation on the reactivity of ruthenium-thiolato bonds in arene anticancer complexes: insights from XAS and DFT.

scientific article published in September 2009

Insertion reactions of nitrosobenzene and ketenes into silaaziridines

Inside Back Cover: Os2 -Os4 Switch Controls DNA Knotting and Anticancer Activity (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 31/2016)

Inside Cover: Organoiridium Photosensitizers Induce Specific Oxidative Attack on Proteins within Cancer Cells (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47/2017)

Insights into the binding sites of organometallic ruthenium anticancer compounds on peptides using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry

scientific article

Investigation of the role of Bax, p21/Waf1 and p53 as determinants of cellular responses in HCT116 colorectal cancer cells exposed to the novel cytotoxic ruthenium(II) organometallic agent, RM175.

scientific article published on 22 February 2005

Isomer separation and gas-phase configurations of organoruthenium anticancer complexes: ion mobility mass spectrometry and modeling

scientific article

Light Harvesting and Photoemission by Nanoparticles for Photodynamic Therapy

Mirror-image organometallic osmium arene iminopyridine halido complexes exhibit similar potent anticancer activity

scientific article

Mitochondria-targeted spin-labelled luminescent iridium anticancer complexes.

scientific article

Nanoparticles of chitosan conjugated to organo-ruthenium complexes

scholarly article by Yanqing Wang et al published 2016 in Inorganic chemistry frontiers

Near infrared photolysis of a Ru polypyridyl complex by upconverting nanoparticles

scientific article published on 06 January 2014

New activation mechanism for half-sandwich organometallic anticancer complexes.

scientific article

Organoiridium Photosensitizers Induce Specific Oxidative Attack on Proteins within Cancer Cells.

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Organometallic Iridium(III) Cyclopentadienyl Anticancer Complexes Containing C,N-Chelating Ligands

scholarly article by Zhe Liu et al published 12 September 2011 in Organometallics

Organometallic chemistry, biology and medicine: ruthenium arene anticancer complexes

scientific article

Organometallic cis-Dichlorido Ruthenium(II) Ammine Complexes

scientific article published on 22 June 2011

Organometallic half-sandwich iridium anticancer complexes.

scientific article published on 28 March 2011

Organometallic osmium arene complexes with potent cancer cell cytotoxicity

scientific article published on 26 October 2010

Organometallic ruthenium and iridium transfer-hydrogenation catalysts using coenzyme NADH as a cofactor

scientific article

Organometallic ruthenium anticancer complexes inhibit human glutathione-S-transferase π.

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

Os2 -Os4 Switch Controls DNA Knotting and Anticancer Activity

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Osmium(II) and Ruthenium(II) Arene Maltolato Complexes: Rapid Hydrolysis and Nucleobase Binding

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Phenylazo-pyridine and Phenylazo-pyrazole chlorido Ruthenium(II) Arene Complexes: Arene Loss, Aquation, and Cancer Cell Cytotoxicity

Phenylazo-pyridine and phenylazo-pyrazole chlorido ruthenium(II) arene complexes: arene loss, aquation, and cancer cell cytotoxicity

scientific article published on December 2006

Photoactivatable Organometallic Pyridyl Ruthenium(II) Arene Complexes

article published in 2012

Photocontrolled DNA binding of a receptor-targeted organometallic ruthenium(II) complex

scientific article

Photocontrolled nucleobase binding to an organometallic Ru(II) arene complex

scientific article published on 21 September 2009

Photorelease of Pyridyl Esters in Organometallic Ru(II) Arene Complexes

Potent Half-Sandwich Iridium(III) Anticancer Complexes Containing C(∧)N-Chelated and Pyridine Ligands

scientific article

Radiosensitisation of human colorectal cancer cells by ruthenium(II) arene anticancer complexes

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Reactions at functional silicon centres in compounds containing carbon–zinc bonds

Reactions of sterically hindered organozinc and organocadmium compounds containing functional silicon centres. Crystal structures of Zn[C(SiMe3)2(SiMe2OCOCF3)]2 and Cd[C(SiMe3)2(SiMe2OMe)]2

Reactivity of a cationic square-planar palladium(II) chloro complex containing bis[2-(diphenylphosphino)ethyl]amine: chloro substitutions by anionic ligands and formation of neutral digold(I) compounds possessing linear PAuX fragments. The X-Ray crys

Reduction of quinones by NADH catalyzed by organoiridium complexes

scientific article

Ruthenium(II) arene anticancer complexes with redox-active diamine ligands

scientific article

Ruthenium(II) arene complexes containing four- and five-membered monoanionic O,O-chelate rings

Ruthenium(II)-Arene Metallacycles: Crystal Structures, Interaction with DNA, and Cytotoxicity

Some unusual organo-zinc and -mercury compounds. The crystal structures of the compounds [(HOMe2Si)(Me3Si)2C]2Zn, [(MeOMe2Si)(Me3Si)2C]2Zn, and [(MeOMe2Si)(Me3Si)2C]2Hg

Spin-labelled photo-cytotoxic diazido platinum(iv) anticancer complex

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

Structure and dynamics of a platinum(II) aminophosphine complex and its nucleobase adducts

Structure-activity relationships for cytotoxic ruthenium(II) arene complexes containing N,N-, N,O-, and O,O-chelating ligands.

scientific article

Structure-activity relationships for organometallic osmium arene phenylazopyridine complexes with potent anticancer activity

scientific article

Supramolecular Photoactivatable Anticancer Hydrogels

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Sweetening ruthenium and osmium: organometallic arene complexes containing aspartame

scientific article

Synthesis, characterisation and dynamic behavior of photoactive bipyridyl ruthenium(II)-nicotinamide complexes

Synthesis, characterization, and reaction pathways for the formation of a GMP adduct of a cytotoxic thiocyanato ruthenium arene complex

scientific article

The Photochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes and Its Application in Biology and Medicine

The contrasting chemical reactivity of potent isoelectronic iminopyridine and azopyridine osmium(ii) arene anticancer complexes

scholarly article by Ying Fu et al published 2012 in Chemical Science

The contrasting chemistry and cancer cell cytotoxicity of bipyridine and bipyridinediol ruthenium(II) arene complexes.

scientific article

The potent oxidant anticancer activity of organoiridium catalysts

scientific article

The preparation and crystal structures of the compounds (Ph2MeSi)3CMCl (M  Zn, Cd, or Hg)

Transfer hydrogenation catalysis in cells as a new approach to anticancer drug design.

scientific article

Tuning the reactivity of osmium(II) and ruthenium(II) arene complexes under physiological conditions

scientific article published on February 2006

Upconverting Nanoparticles Prompt Remote Near-Infrared Photoactivation of Ru(II)-Arene Complexes

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Upconverting nanoparticles for the near infrared photoactivation of transition metal complexes: new opportunities and challenges in medicinal inorganic photochemistry

scientific article published on 01 August 2016

Use of chelating ligands to tune the reactive site of half-sandwich ruthenium(II)-arene anticancer complexes

scientific article published in October 2004

List of works by Abraha Habtemariam

"Head-to-head" double-hamburger-like structure of di-ruthenated d(GpG) adducts of mono-functional Ru-arene anticancer complexes

106Ru radiolabelling of the antitumour complex [(eta6-fluorene)Ru(en)Cl]PF6.

Activation Mechanisms for Organometallic Anticancer Complexes

Anti-colorectal cancer activity of an organometallic osmium arene azopyridine complex

Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation by synthetic catalysts in cancer cells.

Bifunctional Amine-Tethered Ruthenium(II) Arene Complexes Form Monofunctional Adducts on DNA

Bipyrimidine ruthenium(II) arene complexes: structure, reactivity and cytotoxicity.

Catalysis of regioselective reduction of NAD+ by ruthenium(II) arene complexes under biologically relevant conditions.

Catalytic organometallic anticancer complexes

Chelate ring-opening aminophosphine complexes of ruthenium(II)

Chlorido-, aqua-, 9-ethylguanine- and 9-ethyladenine-adducts of cytotoxic ruthenium arene complexes containing O,O-chelating ligands

Chloro half-sandwich osmium(II) complexes: influence of chelated N,N-ligands on hydrolysis, guanine binding, and cytotoxicity.

Combatting AMR: photoactivatable ruthenium(ii)-isoniazid complex exhibits rapid selective antimycobacterial activity.

Competition between glutathione and guanine for a ruthenium(II) arene anticancer complex: detection of a sulfenato intermediate

Contrasting Anticancer Activity of Half-Sandwich Iridium(III) Complexes Bearing Functionally Diverse 2-Phenylpyridine Ligands

Contrasting cellular uptake pathways for chlorido and iodido iminopyridine ruthenium arene anticancer complexes

Contrasting reactivity and cancer cell cytotoxicity of isoelectronic organometallic iridium(III) complexes

Controlling ligand substitution reactions of organometallic complexes: tuning cancer cell cytotoxicity.

Controlling the reactivity of ruthenium(II) arene complexes by tether ring-opening

Correction to “Differences in the Cellular Response and Signaling Pathways between Cisplatin and Monodentate Organometallic Ru(II) Antitumor Complexes Containing a Terphenyl Ligand”

Corrigendum: Upconverting Nanoparticles Prompt Remote Near-Infrared Photoactivation of Ru(II)-Arene Complexes

Crystal packing and hydrogen bonding in platinum(II) nucleotide complexes: X-ray crystal structure of [Pt(MeSCH(2)CH(2)SMe)(5'-GMP-N7)(2)].6H(2)O.

Cytotoxicity, cellular uptake, and DNA interactions of new monodentate ruthenium(II) complexes containing terphenyl arenes.

De novo generation of singlet oxygen and ammine ligands by photoactivation of a platinum anticancer complex

Design of photoactivatable metallodrugs: Selective and rapid light-induced ligand dissociation from half-sandwich [Ru([9]aneS3)(N–N′)(py)]2+ complexes

Designing organometallic compounds for catalysis and therapy

Differences in the cellular response and signaling pathways between cisplatin and monodentate organometallic Ru(II) antitumor complexes containing a terphenyl ligand.

Dual Triggering of DNA Binding and Fluorescence via Photoactivation of a Dinuclear Ruthenium(II) Arene Complex

Effect of sulfonamidoethylenediamine substituents in RuII arene anticancer catalysts on transfer hydrogenation of coenzyme NAD+ by formate.

Electrophilic Activation of Oxidized Sulfur Ligands and Implications for the Biological Activity of Ruthenium(II) Arene Anticancer Complexes

Five-coordinate aminophosphine platinum(II) complexes containing cysteine derivatives as ligands

Half-sandwich arene ruthenium(II)-enzyme complex

Half-sandwich rhodium(III) transfer hydrogenation catalysts: Reduction of NAD(+) and pyruvate, and antiproliferative activity

Hydrosulfide Adducts of Organo-Iridium Anticancer Complexes

Improved Catalytic Activity of Ruthenium–Arene Complexes in the Reduction of NAD+

In vivo tumour and metastasis reduction and in vitro effects on invasion assays of the ruthenium RM175 and osmium AFAP51 organometallics in the mammary cancer model.

In-Cell Activation of Organo-Osmium(II) Anticancer Complexes

In-Cell Activation of Organo-Osmium(II) Anticancer Complexes

Influence of oxygenation on the reactivity of ruthenium-thiolato bonds in arene anticancer complexes: insights from XAS and DFT.

Insertion reactions of nitrosobenzene and ketenes into silaaziridines

Inside Back Cover: Os2 -Os4 Switch Controls DNA Knotting and Anticancer Activity (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 31/2016)

Inside Cover: Organoiridium Photosensitizers Induce Specific Oxidative Attack on Proteins within Cancer Cells (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47/2017)

Insights into the binding sites of organometallic ruthenium anticancer compounds on peptides using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry

Investigation of the role of Bax, p21/Waf1 and p53 as determinants of cellular responses in HCT116 colorectal cancer cells exposed to the novel cytotoxic ruthenium(II) organometallic agent, RM175.

Isomer separation and gas-phase configurations of organoruthenium anticancer complexes: ion mobility mass spectrometry and modeling

Light Harvesting and Photoemission by Nanoparticles for Photodynamic Therapy

Mirror-image organometallic osmium arene iminopyridine halido complexes exhibit similar potent anticancer activity

Mitochondria-targeted spin-labelled luminescent iridium anticancer complexes.

Nanoparticles of chitosan conjugated to organo-ruthenium complexes

Near infrared photolysis of a Ru polypyridyl complex by upconverting nanoparticles

New activation mechanism for half-sandwich organometallic anticancer complexes.

Organoiridium Photosensitizers Induce Specific Oxidative Attack on Proteins within Cancer Cells.

Organometallic Iridium(III) Cyclopentadienyl Anticancer Complexes Containing C,N-Chelating Ligands

Organometallic chemistry, biology and medicine: ruthenium arene anticancer complexes

Organometallic cis-Dichlorido Ruthenium(II) Ammine Complexes

Organometallic half-sandwich iridium anticancer complexes.

Organometallic osmium arene complexes with potent cancer cell cytotoxicity

Organometallic ruthenium and iridium transfer-hydrogenation catalysts using coenzyme NADH as a cofactor

Organometallic ruthenium anticancer complexes inhibit human glutathione-S-transferase π.

Os2 -Os4 Switch Controls DNA Knotting and Anticancer Activity

Osmium(II) and Ruthenium(II) Arene Maltolato Complexes: Rapid Hydrolysis and Nucleobase Binding

Phenylazo-pyridine and Phenylazo-pyrazole chlorido Ruthenium(II) Arene Complexes: Arene Loss, Aquation, and Cancer Cell Cytotoxicity

Phenylazo-pyridine and phenylazo-pyrazole chlorido ruthenium(II) arene complexes: arene loss, aquation, and cancer cell cytotoxicity

Photoactivatable Organometallic Pyridyl Ruthenium(II) Arene Complexes

Photocontrolled DNA binding of a receptor-targeted organometallic ruthenium(II) complex

Photocontrolled nucleobase binding to an organometallic Ru(II) arene complex

Photorelease of Pyridyl Esters in Organometallic Ru(II) Arene Complexes

Potent Half-Sandwich Iridium(III) Anticancer Complexes Containing C(∧)N-Chelated and Pyridine Ligands

Radiosensitisation of human colorectal cancer cells by ruthenium(II) arene anticancer complexes

Reactions at functional silicon centres in compounds containing carbon–zinc bonds

Reactions of sterically hindered organozinc and organocadmium compounds containing functional silicon centres. Crystal structures of Zn[C(SiMe3)2(SiMe2OCOCF3)]2 and Cd[C(SiMe3)2(SiMe2OMe)]2

Reactivity of a cationic square-planar palladium(II) chloro complex containing bis[2-(diphenylphosphino)ethyl]amine: chloro substitutions by anionic ligands and formation of neutral digold(I) compounds possessing linear PAuX fragments. The X-Ray crys

Reduction of quinones by NADH catalyzed by organoiridium complexes

Ruthenium(II) arene anticancer complexes with redox-active diamine ligands

Ruthenium(II) arene complexes containing four- and five-membered monoanionic O,O-chelate rings

Ruthenium(II)-Arene Metallacycles: Crystal Structures, Interaction with DNA, and Cytotoxicity

Some unusual organo-zinc and -mercury compounds. The crystal structures of the compounds [(HOMe2Si)(Me3Si)2C]2Zn, [(MeOMe2Si)(Me3Si)2C]2Zn, and [(MeOMe2Si)(Me3Si)2C]2Hg

Spin-labelled photo-cytotoxic diazido platinum(iv) anticancer complex

Structure and dynamics of a platinum(II) aminophosphine complex and its nucleobase adducts