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Chemistry and Biological Activity of Platinum Amidine Complexes
Author(s) -
Michelin Rino A.,
Sgarbossa Paolo,
Mazzega Sbovata Silvia,
Gandin Valentina,
Marzano Cristina,
Bertani Roberta
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemmedchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.817
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1860-7187
pISSN - 1860-7179
DOI - 10.1002/cmdc.201100150
Subject(s) - amidine , platinum , chemistry , moiety , combinatorial chemistry , nucleophile , biological activity , cytotoxicity , chemical synthesis , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , in vitro , biochemistry
Platinum amidine complexes represent a new class of potential antitumor drugs that contain the imino moiety HNC(sp 2 ) bonded to the platinum center. They can be related to the iminoether derivatives, which were recently shown to be the first Pt II compounds with a trans configuration endowed with anticancer activity. The chemical and biological properties of platinum amidine complexes, and more generally of platinum imino derivatives, can be rationally modified through suitable synthetic procedures with the aim of improving their cytotoxicity and antitumor activity. The addition of protic nucleophiles to nitriles coordinated to platinum in various oxidation states can offer a wide variety of complexes with chemical, structural, and physical properties specifically tuned for a more efficacious biological response.