Medicinal Applications of Coordination Complexes

Abstract

Coordination compounds and organometallics have very special place in chemistry due to their different structural arrangements and application in various fields. They also play vital role in biological system particularly in human and plant life. The blood oxygen carrier haemoglobin is a coordination compound of iron which is essential for human life, also the chlorophyll is a coordination compound of magnesium essential for plant the life and the continuation of the life on this planet. These compounds are not only biologically important but also comprise a group of drug like molecules and medicines. Coordination compounds such as platinum, palladium and ruthenium complexes are anti-cancer drugs. Also, many of the coordination compounds are anti-bacterial. The coordination compounds have been showed effective behaviour against many diseases like Alzheimer’s and malaria. Recently coordination compounds used as antivirus such as coronavirus. In present review, we highlighted the most important coordination complexes that show a significant role in the field of medicine.