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Ronald Gust is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has made significant contributions in the fields of chemistry, medicine, and materials science. Their research portfolio includes a substantial focus on organic chemistry, materials chemistry, oncology, molecular biology, and hematology.

The scientist's work addresses core topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and properties of metal complexes, N-heterocyclic carbenes in both organic and inorganic chemistry, catalytic alkyne reactions, chronic myeloid leukemia treatments, and click chemistry applications.

Among Ronald Gust's recent publications are the following papers:

  • Recent development of gold(i) and gold(iii) complexes as therapeutic agents for cancer diseases, 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Investigating the antibacterial activity of salen/salophene metal complexes: Induction of ferroptosis as part of the mode of action, 2020, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Zeta potential changing nanoemulsions based on a simple zwitterion, 2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene Gold(I) Complexes: Mechanism of the Ligand Scrambling Reaction and Their Oxidation to Gold(III) in Aqueous Solutions, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Thiolated chitosans: Are Cys-Cys ligands key to the next generation?, 2020, Carbohydrate Polymers

Frequent coauthors of Ronald Gust include:

  • Brigitte Kircher (28 joint publications)
  • Klaus Wurst (23 joint publications)
  • Daniel Baecker (15 joint publications)
  • Martin Hermann (15 joint publications)
  • Paul Kapitza (14 joint publications)

Ronald Gust's research has often been published in several key scientific venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (14 publications)
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (7 publications)
  • European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (6 publications)
  • Archiv der Pharmazie (5 publications)
  • Dalton Transactions (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Non platinum metal complexes as anti-cancer drugs.

    Ingo Ott;Ronald Gust

  • Metal N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as potential antitumor metallodrugs

    Wukun Liu;Ronald Gust;Ronald Gust

  • Update on metal N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as potential anti-tumor metallodrugs

    Wukun Liu;Wukun Liu;Ronald Gust

  • Cellular uptake, cytotoxicity, and metabolic profiling of human cancer cells treated with ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes [Ru(bpy)2(N--N)]Cl2 with N--N=bpy, phen, dpq, dppz, and dppn.

    Ulrich Schatzschneider;Johanna Niesel;Ingo Ott;Ronald Gust

  • Small cationic antimicrobial peptides delocalize peripheral membrane proteins

    Michaela Wenzel;Alina Iulia Chiriac;Andreas Otto;Dagmar Zweytick

  • Antitumor-active cobalt-alkyne complexes derived from acetylsalicylic acid: studies on the mode of drug action.

    Ingo Ott;Kathrin Schmidt;Brigitte Kircher;Petra Schumacher

  • Photoinduced CO release, cellular uptake and cytotoxicity of a tris(pyrazolyl)methane (tpm) manganese tricarbonyl complex

    Johanna Niesel;Antonio Pinto;Harmel W. Peindy N'Dongo;Klaus Merz

  • Influence of the Polypyridyl (pp) Ligand Size on the DNA Binding Properties, Cytotoxicity and Cellular Uptake of Organoruthenium(II) Complexes of the Type [(η6-C6Me6)Ru(L)(pp)]n+ [L = Cl, n = 1; L = (NH2)2CS, n = 2]

    Sven Schäfer;Ingo Ott;Ronald Gust;William S. Sheldrick

  • Target-Based Approach to Inhibitors of Histone Arginine Methyltransferases

    Astrid Spannhoff;Ralf Heinke;Ingo Bauer;Patrick Trojer

  • NHC Gold Halide Complexes Derived from 4,5-Diarylimidazoles: Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Pharmacological Investigations as Potential Antitumor Agents

    Wukun Liu;Kerstin Bensdorf;Maria Proetto;Ulrich Abram

  • Breast Cancer, Estrogen Receptor and Ligands

    Zhenlin Bai;Ronald Gust

  • Development of cobalt(3,4-diarylsalen) complexes as tumor therapeutics.

    Ronald Gust;Ingo Ott;Diana Posselt;Klaus Sommer

  • A Surface-Modified Dendrimer Set for Potential Application as Drug Delivery Vehicles: Synthesis, In Vitro Toxicity, and Intracellular Localization

    Sabine Fuchs;Timo Kapp;Henning Otto;Torsten Schöneberg

  • Amyloid beta 42 peptide (Aβ42)-lowering compounds directly bind to Aβ and interfere with amyloid precursor protein (APP) transmembrane dimerization

    Luise Richter;Lisa-Marie Munter;Julia Ness;Peter W. Hildebrand

  • Prorenin engages the (pro)renin receptor like renin and both ligand activities are unopposed by aliskiren.

    Jan H Schefe;Christian Neumann;Matthias Goebel;Jan Danser

  • Modulation of the Biological Properties of Aspirin by Formation of a Bioorganometallic Derivative

    Ingo Ott;Brigitte Kircher;Christoph P. Bagowski;Danielle H. W. Vlecken

  • Cytotoxic half-sandwich rhodium(III) complexes: Polypyridyl ligand influence on their DNA binding properties and cellular uptake

    Michael A. Scharwitz;Ingo Ott;Yvonne Geldmacher;Ronald Gust

  • Gold complexes with thiosemicarbazones: reactions of bi- and tridentate thiosemicarbazones with dichloro[2-(dimethylaminomethyl)phenyl-C1,N]gold(III), [Au(damp-C1,N)Cl2]

    Ulrich Abram;Kirstin Ortner;Ronald Gust;Klaus Sommer

  • Ring-substituted [1,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethylenediamine]dichloroplatinum(II) complexes: compounds with a selective effect on the hormone-dependent mammary carcinoma

    Karl J;Gust R;Spruss T;Schneider Mr

  • Paclitaxel-loaded microparticles and implants for the treatment of brain cancer: preparation and physicochemical characterization.

    K. Elkharraz;N. Faisant;C. Guse;F. Siepmann

  • Optimization of cisplatin for the treatment of hormone-dependent tumoral diseases: Part 2: Use of non-steroidal ligands

    Ronald Gust;Wolfgang Beck;Gèrard Jaouen;Helmut Schönenberger

  • Non Platinum Metal Complexes as Anticancer Drugs

    Ingo Ott;Ronald Gust

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingo Ott
Ingo Ott Technische Universität Braunschweig
William S. Sheldrick
William S. Sheldrick Ruhr University Bochum
Thomas Unger
Thomas Unger Maastricht University
Rolf W. Hartmann
Rolf W. Hartmann Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Gerhard Wolber
Gerhard Wolber Freie Universität Berlin
Bart Staels
Bart Staels University of Lille
Nils Metzler-Nolte
Nils Metzler-Nolte Ruhr University Bochum
Hartmut Yersin
Hartmut Yersin University of Regensburg
Manfred Jung
Manfred Jung University of Freiburg
Gerd Multhaup
Gerd Multhaup McGill University

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