Volume 28, Issue 2 pp. 213-220
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Impact of the Aliphatic Dicarboxylate Chain of Novel Dinuclear Palladium(II) Complexes: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation

Enjun Gao

Enjun Gao

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Mingchang Zhu

Mingchang Zhu

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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Qiong Wu

Qiong Wu

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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Lei Liu

Lei Liu

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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Hongyan Liu

Hongyan Liu

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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Fuchun Liu

Fuchun Liu

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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Yun Huang

Yun Huang

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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Lei Wang

Lei Wang

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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Qunzhi Shi

Qunzhi Shi

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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Wanzhong Zhang

Wanzhong Zhang

Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning 110142, China

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First published: 02 March 2010
Citations: 3

Abstract

Five dinuclear palladium(II) complexes with HOOC(CH2)nCOOH (n=2–6) and 2,2′-bipyridine ligands were synthesigned by a reaction with K2PdCl4. To prepare such complexes with different aliphatic dicarboxylate chain lengths was in an attempt to correlate this length factor, which influences the biological activity of the complexes, with fluorescence spectra, DNA cleavage and cytotoxic activity. The results indicate that the complexes bind to fish sperm DNA (FS-DNA) in an intercalative mode via fluorescence spectra, and the five complexes show different cleavage of supercoiled DNA, and then a cytotoxicity assay of these dinuclear palladium(II) complexes on human tumor cell lines was performed. In most of the cell lines, complex 5 (n=6) and 4 (n=5) showed much higher cytotoxicity than cis-platin. On the other hand, complex 3 (n=4) was found to be moderately active, and complex 1 (n=2), complex 2 (n=3) were found only marginally cytotoxic. Implications of these findings were discussed from a structure-activity relationship.

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