“…1 However, the use of metals in medicinal chemistry was neglected until the 1900s, when potassium dicyanoaurate (Figure 1, 1) was first reported for its use in tuberculosis, and a small number of compounds were reported for their leishmaniasis (disease caused by parasites of the Leishmania type) and antibacterial activities. In 1909, Paul Ehrlich first discovered the antisyphilitic activity of the drug arsphenamine (Salvarsan), an arsenic containing compound, (2). 2 This organoarsenic compound was the first modern chemotherapeutic agent, however, it was thought to contain an As=As double bond, until 2005, when after extensive mass spectrometric analysis, the structure was confirmed to have AsAs single bonds and exist as a mixture of cycloarsenic rings, with three and five arsenic centres.…”