Exploring the catalytic and anticancer activity of gold(I) complexes bearing 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA) and related ligands

Funding Information: Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE) acknowledges the financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) through projects UIDB/00100/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/UIDB/00100/2020), UIDP/00100/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/UIDP/00100/2020), and LA/P/0056/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/LA/P/0056/2020). N. R. C. acknowledges the financial support from Research fellowship BL2/2020_IST-ID of CQE (project 1801P.00974.1.01.01, UIDB/00100/2020) and Programa Doutoral FCT “Catalysis and Sustainability” (PD/00248/2012). A. G. M. acknowledges FCT for the international call of Scientific Employment Stimulus (2023.06724.CEECIND) DOI: 10.54499/2023.06724.CEECIND/CP2836/CT0005. FCT/MCTES is also acknowledged for projects DOIs: 10.54499/LA/P/0008/2020, 10.54499/UIDB/50006/2020 and 10.54499/UIDP/50006/2020 (LAQV), and bilateral project Portugal-Germany 5625-DRI-DAAD-2020/21. S. A. C. C. also acknowledges FCT for the Scientific Employment Stimulus – Institutional Call (DOI: 10.54499/CEECINST/00102/2018/CP1567/CT0026). Concerning the biological part, this research was funded by Fondazione AIRC per la Ricerca sul Cancro, IG23566. We acknowledge the supervision of Dr J. Gross for the HR-MS experiments conducted at the Chemistry Department of Heidelberg University. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Royal Society of Chemistry.