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Citations
66119
World Ranking
257
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1999 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Peter J. Sadler is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and has a broad research portfolio spanning several interconnected scientific fields. Their work mainly focuses on chemistry, medicine, and materials science, with significant contributions to organic chemistry, materials chemistry, oncology, molecular biology, and biomedical engineering.

Their research emphasizes the synthesis and properties of metal complexes, which is reflected in numerous publications addressing topics such as click chemistry and applications, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, ferrocene chemistry and applications, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Recent papers authored by or associated with them include:

  • Metallodrugs are unique: opportunities and challenges of discovery and development (2020, Chemical Science)
  • Metal complexes as a promising source for new antibiotics (2020, Chemical Science)
  • How promising is phototherapy for cancer? (2020, British Journal of Cancer)
  • Enhancing the Activity of Drugs by Conjugation to Organometallic Fragments (2020, Chemistry - A European Journal)
  • Single-Cell Chemistry of Photoactivatable Platinum Anticancer Complexes (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, indicating a strong network in their specialty areas. Notable co-authors include Guy J. Clarkson, Huayun Shi, James P. C. Coverdale, Isolda Romero-Canelón, and Hannah E. Bridgewater.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several well-known venues, notably:

  • Dalton Transactions
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Science

Recognition of their contributions to science is marked by honors such as being named Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999 and Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2005.

Best Publications

  • New trends for metal complexes with anticancer activity.

    Pieter C A Bruijnincx;Peter J Sadler

  • Metals in Medicine

    Zijian Guo;Peter J. Sadler

  • Metal Complexes as DNA Intercalators

    Hong-Ke Liu;Peter J. Sadler

  • Exploration of the medical periodic table: towards new targets

    Nicolas P. E. Barry;Peter J. Sadler

  • Inhibition of cancer cell growth by ruthenium(II) arene complexes

    Robert E. Morris;Rhona E. Aird;Piedad del Socorro Murdoch;Haimei Chen

  • Using coordination chemistry to design new medicines

    Luca Ronconi;Peter J. Sadler

  • In vitro and in vivo activity and cross resistance profiles of novel ruthenium (II) organometallic arene complexes in human ovarian cancer.

    R E Aird;J Cummings;A A Ritchie;M Muir

  • Current applications and future potential for bioinorganic chemistry in the development of anticancer drugs.

    Sabine H. van Rijt;Peter J. Sadler

  • Organoiridium complexes: anticancer agents and catalysts.

    Zhe Liu;Peter J. Sadler

  • Organometallic chemistry, biology and medicine: ruthenium arene anticancer complexes

    Yaw Kai Yan;Michael Melchart;Abraha Habtemariam;Peter J. Sadler

  • Metallodrugs are unique: opportunities and challenges of discovery and development

    Elizabeth J Anthony;Elizabeth M Bolitho;Hannah E Bridgewater;Oliver W L Carter

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

    Abraha Habtemariam;Michael Melchart;Rafael Fernandez;Simon Parsons

  • Organometallic Ruthenium(II) Diamine Anticancer Complexes: Arene-Nucleobase Stacking and Stereospecific Hydrogen-Bonding in Guanine Adducts

    Haimei Chen;John A. Parkinson;Simon Parsons;Robert A. Coxall

  • Next-Generation Metal Anticancer Complexes: Multitargeting via Redox Modulation

    Isolda Romero-Canelón;Peter J. Sadler;Peter J. Sadler

  • Transferrin as a metal ion mediator.

    Hongzhe Sun;Hongyan Li;Peter J. Sadler

  • Targeted photoredox catalysis in cancer cells

    Huaiyi Huang;Huaiyi Huang;Samya Banerjee;Kangqiang Qiu;Pingyu Zhang

  • Metal complexes as a promising source for new antibiotics.

    Angelo Frei;Johannes Zuegg;Alysha G. Elliott;Murray V. Baker

  • Cisplatin Binding Sites on Human Albumin

    Andrei I. Ivanov;John Christodoulou;John A. Parkinson;Kevin J. Barnham

  • Medicinal organometallic chemistry: designing metal arene complexes as anticancer agents

    Anna F. A. Peacock;Peter J. Sadler

  • Highly selective binding of organometallic ruthenium ethylenediamine complexes to nucleic acids: novel recognition mechanisms.

    Haimei Chen;John A. Parkinson;Robert E. Morris;Peter J. Sadler

  • Photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT): the potential of excited-state d-block metals in medicine

    Nicola J. Farrer;Luca Salassa;Peter J. Sadler

  • The immobilisation of proteins in carbon nanotubes

    Jason J. Davis;Malcolm L.H. Green;H. Allen O. Hill;Yun Chung Leung

  • Cyclam complexes and their applications in medicine

    Xiangyang Liang;Peter J. Sadler

Frequent Co-Authors

Abraha Habtemariam
Abraha Habtemariam University of Warwick
Guy J. Clarkson
Guy J. Clarkson University of Warwick
Simon Parsons
Simon Parsons University of Edinburgh
John Parkinson
John Parkinson University of Toronto
Susan J. Berners-Price
Susan J. Berners-Price Griffith University
Viktor Brabec
Viktor Brabec Czech Academy of Sciences
Zijian Guo
Zijian Guo Nanjing University
Hongzhe Sun
Hongzhe Sun University of Hong Kong
Kevin J. Barnham
Kevin J. Barnham Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Peter B. O’Connor
Peter B. O’Connor University of Warwick

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