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<title>Investigating the Cytotoxicity of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes by Changing the Electronic Structure of Salicylaldehyde Ligands</title>
<creator>Taghizadeh Shool, Maryam</creator>
<creator>Amiri Rudbari, Hadi</creator>
<creator>Cuevas Vicario, José Vicente</creator>
<creator>Rodríguez Rubio, Andrea</creator>
<creator>Stagno, Claudio</creator>
<creator>Iraci, Nunzio</creator>
<creator>Efferth, Thomas</creator>
<creator>Omer, Ejlal A.</creator>
<creator>Schirmeister, Tanja</creator>
<creator>Blacque, Olivier</creator>
<creator>Moini, Nakisa</creator>
<creator>Sheibani, Esmail</creator>
<description>A novel class of Ru(II)-based polypyridyl complexes with an auxiliary salicylaldehyde ligand [Ru(phen)2(X-Sal)]BF4 {X: H (1), 5-Cl (2), 5-Br (3), 3,5-Cl2 (4), 3,5-Br2 (5), 3-Br,5-Cl (6), 3,5-I2 (7), 5-NO2 (8), 5-Me (9), 4-Me (10), 4-OMe (11), and 4-DEA (12), has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, and 1H/13C NMR spectroscopy. The molecular structure of 4, 6, 9, 10, and 11 was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis which revealed structural similarities. DFT and TD-DFT calculations showed that they also possess similar electronic structures. Absorption/emission spectra were recorded for 2, 3, 10, and 11. All Ru-complexes, unlike the pure ligands and the complex lacking the salicylaldehyde component, displayed outstanding antiproliferative activity in the screening test (10 μM) against CCRF-CEM leukemia cells underlining the crucial role of the presence of the auxiliary ligand for the biological activity. The two most active derivatives, namely 7 and 10, were selected for continuous assays showing IC50 values in the submicromolar and micromolar range against drug-sensitive CCRF-CEM and multidrug-resistant CEM/ADR5000 leukemia cells, respectively. These two compounds were investigated in silico for their potential binding to duplex DNA well-matched and mismatched base pairs, since they showed remarkable selectivity indexes (2.2 and 19.5 respectively) on PBMC cells.</description>
<date>2024-07-01</date>
<date>2024-07-01</date>
<date>2023-12-29</date>
<type>info:eu-repo/semantics/article</type>
<identifier>0020-1669</identifier>
<identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9316</identifier>
<identifier>10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03414</identifier>
<identifier>1520-510X</identifier>
<language>eng</language>
<relation>Inorganic Chemistry. 2023, V. 63, n. 2, p. 1083-1101</relation>
<relation>https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03414</relation>
<rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</rights>
<rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</rights>
<rights>Atribución 4.0 Internacional</rights>
<publisher>ACS Publications</publisher>
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