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Amide Coupling Reaction for the Synthesis of Bispyridine-based Ligands and Their Complexation to Platinum as Dinuclear Anticancer Agents
Published on: May 28, 2014
Biological activity of Pd(II) complexes with mono- and disubstituted pyridines--experimental and theoretical studies
Agnieszka Krogul1, Jakub Cedrowski, Katarzyna Wiktorska
1Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland. akrogul@chem.uw.edu.pl
Abstract:
Due to the similarity between Pd and Pt, the complexes of palladium(II) can be considered as potential anticancer agents. Activity of six PdCl2(X2Py)2 complexes (Py=pyridine, and X=CH3 or Cl) was measured by MTT test using MCF7, CCRF-SB, PC3 and human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines. We found that the effect of PdCl2(XnPy)2 was cell-specific and time-dependent. Obtained results were discussed and compared with the activation parameters calculated for the hydrolysis of PdCl2(XnPy)2, indicating a correlation between viability of MCF7 and CCRF-SB cells and rates of hydrolysis of the Pd(II) complexes.
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