From their early successes in medicine, organometallic compounds continue to attract interest as potential chemotherapeutics to treat a range of diseases. Here, we show from recent literature selected largely from the last two years that organometallics offer unique opportunities in medicine and, increasingly, a mechanistic-based approach is applied to their development, which has not always been the case.

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用于治疗癌症的有机金属化合物的开发方面的最新进展。

从其在医学上的早期成功，有机金属化合物作为治疗多种疾病的潜在化学疗法继续引起人们的兴趣。在这里，我们从最近两年的大量文献中发现，有机金属在医学上提供了独特的机会，并且越来越多地将基于机械的方法应用于其发展，但情况并非总是如此。