Publications in collaboration with researchers from University of Pisa (22)

2025

  1. How reliable is the evaluation of DNA binding constants? Insights and best practices based on an inter-laboratory fluorescence titration study

    Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol. 327

  2. Pd(II)/1,10-phenanthroline complexes bearing arene ligands: On the role of N- vs O-coordination to tune their cellular activity and binding ability towards DNA and RNA

    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Vol. 262

2024

  1. Exploring the interaction between a fluorescent Ag(i)-biscarbene complex and non-canonical DNA structures: a multi-technique investigation

    Dalton Transactions, Vol. 53, Núm. 23, pp. 9700-9714

2023

  1. Adding Diversity to a Diruthenium Biscyclopentadienyl Scaffold via Alkyne Incorporation: Synthesis and Biological Studies

    Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 62, Núm. 31, pp. 12453-12467

2022

  1. Screening the biological properties of transition metal carbamates reveals gold(I) and silver(I) complexes as potent cytotoxic and antimicrobial agents

    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Vol. 227

2021

  1. Anticancer and antibacterial potential of robust Ruthenium(II) arene complexes regulated by choice of α-diimine and halide ligands

    Chemico-Biological Interactions, Vol. 344

  2. Combined spectroscopic and theoretical analysis of the binding of a water-soluble perylene diimide to DNA/RNA polynucleotides and G-quadruplexes

    Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol. 260

2020

  1. Alcian blue pyridine variant interaction with DNA and RNA polynucleotides and G-quadruplexes: changes in the binding features for different biosubstrates

    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Vol. 212

  2. Antiproliferative and bactericidal activity of diiron and monoiron cyclopentadienyl carbonyl complexes comprising a vinyl-aminoalkylidene unit

    Applied Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 34, Núm. 11

  3. Biological activity and photocatalytic properties of a naphthyl-imidazo phenanthroline (HNAIP) ligand and its [Ir(ppy)2(HNAIP)]Cl and [Rh(ppy)2(HNAIP)]Cl complexes

    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Vol. 203

  4. Cytotoxic Ag(I) and Au(I) NHC-carbenes bind DNA and show TrxR inhibition

    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Vol. 205

  5. Targeting G-quadruplex structures with Zn(ii) terpyridine derivatives: a SAR study

    Dalton Transactions, Vol. 49, Núm. 38, pp. 13372-13385

2017

  1. Binding of Al(iii) to synthetic RNA and metal-mediated strand aggregation

    Dalton Transactions, Vol. 46, Núm. 47, pp. 16671-16681

2015

  1. Aggregation Features and Fluorescence of Hoechst 33258

    Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 119, Núm. 13, pp. 4575-4581

  2. Mg(II) and Ni(II) induce aggregation of poly(rA)poly(rU) to either tetra-aggregate or triplex depending on the metal ion concentration

    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Vol. 151, pp. 115-122

  3. Stabilization of Al(III) solutions by complexation with cacodylic acid: Speciation and binding features

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 17, Núm. 44, pp. 29803-29813

2014

  1. RNA triplex-to-duplex and duplex-to-triplex conversion induced by coralyne

    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 16, Núm. 13, pp. 6012-6018

2013

  1. Anticancer activity and DNA binding of a bifunctional Ru(II) arene aqua-complex with the 2,4-diamino-6-(2-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine ligand

    Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 52, Núm. 17, pp. 9962-9974

2012

  1. Preparation of organometallic ruthenium-arene-diaminotriazine complexes as binding agents to DNA

    Chemistry - An Asian Journal, Vol. 7, Núm. 4, pp. 788-801

  2. The fluorophore 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) induces DNA folding in long double-stranded DNA

    Chemistry - An Asian Journal, Vol. 7, Núm. 8, pp. 1803-1810