REVIEW ARTICLE
Chromium Coordination Compounds with Antimicrobial Activity: Synthetic Routes, Structural Characteristics, and Antibacterial Activity
Manolis C. Vlasiou1, *, Kyriaki S. Pafiti1
1 Department of Life and Health Sciences, School of Science and Engineering, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2020Volume: 14
First Page: 1
Last Page: 25
Publisher ID: TOMCJ-14-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874104502014010001
Article History:
Received Date: 30/01/2020Revision Received Date: 13/04/2020
Acceptance Date: 14/04/2020
Electronic publication date: 29/06/2020
Collection year: 2020
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
A major threat to public health worldwide is that the antimicrobial activity of the established drugs is constantly reduced due to the resistance that bacteria develop throughout the years. Some transition metal complexes show higher antibacterial activity against several bacteria compared to those of clinically used antibiotics. Novel classes of molecules provide new challenges and seem promising to solve the crisis that the overuse of antibiotics has led over the last years. This review discusses the challenges of chromium-based metallodrugs as antimicrobial agents. In particular, the synthetic routes, the structural characteristics, as well as the antimicrobial activity of 32 chromium (III) complexes have been presented.
Keywords: Antimicrobial, Chromium, Coordinated compounds, Structure, Transition Metal Complexes.
