Novos complexos de platina(II) com ligantes diaminados derivados de terpenos

Abstract

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, and there is an ongoing search for treatments or cure for this disease. At the present, there are three main forms of treatment: surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Chemotherapy has been an extremely valuable alternative in the treatment of cancer, however, is quite aggressive to the patients. Many studies have been conducted in an attempt to find more active and less toxic compounds. More than half of the available anti-cancer drugs are natural compounds or derived from them. On the other hand, platinum complexes attract attention from researchers due to the efficacy of cisplatin and analogues as antitumor agents which are already well established in clinical use. The present work comprehends the synthesis and characterization of 15 novel platinum complexes derived from modified ligands obtained from natural terpene. The complexes were characterized by vibrational, 1H , 13C and 195Pt NMR spectroscopies, thermal and elemental analyses. The antibacterial activity and cytotoxicity of the compounds in tumor and normal cells were tested. None of the compounds examined were active against bacterial growth for the tested strains, however, regarding cytotoxicity interesting results were obtained in relation to the selectivity index. For instance, compound 9 exhibited high selectivity index for metastatic melanoma cells and IC50 value close to the reference drug, cisplatin.