“…To meet the need of novel more efficacious, safe and unexpensive drugs to treat leishmaniasis, a number of studies are ongoing, exploring a wide chemical space from several classes of natural products 5 and or their semi-synthetic derivatives (sterols 5 , mono-, sequi-, di-and tri-terpens 6 , alkaloids 7 , flavonoids 8 , etc.) to the most diversified synthetic compounds, from the simple chloroacetoanilides 9 , to organometallics 10a (as auranofin 10b ), aryldiselenides 11 , adamantylidene alkyl phosphocoline 12 and a variety of heterocycles 13 , particularly indole 14 , indazole 15 , benzotriazole 16 and benzimidazole [17][18][19][20] derivatives. Examples of these compounds are depicted in Figures 2 and 3.…”