PTA Ruthenium-aminochloroquinoline complexes: Antimalarials of the future
Malaria is a disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes; it has been transmitedaffecting humanity for more than 10.000 years, it affects between 700 000 and 2.7million people per year and it can be deadly, therefore there is a large and increasinginterest in developing a cure against it. Quinine, the first antimalarial, was isolated from the chinchona tree in 1632. Thiscompound was widely used in
