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Ruthenium(II)–Arene Thiocarboxylates: Identification of a Stable Dimer Selectively Cytotoxic to Invasive Breast Cancer Cells
Stephens, Liam J.,Levina, Aviva,Trinh, Iman,Blair, Victoria L.,Werrett, Melissa V.,Lay, Peter A.,Andrews, Philip C.
, p. 1188 - 1200 (2019/12/24)
RuII-arene complexes provide a versatile scaffold for novel anticancer drugs. Seven new RuII-arene-thiocarboxylato dimers were synthesized and characterized. Three of the complexes (2 a, b and 5) showed promising antiproliferative activities in MDA-MB-231 (human invasive breast cancer) cells, and were further tested in a panel of fifteen cancerous and noncancerous cell lines. Complex 5 showed moderate but remarkably selective activity in MDA-MB-231 cells (IC50=39±4 μm Ru). Real-time proliferation studies showed that 5 induced apoptosis in MDA-MB-231 cells but had no effect in A549 (human lung cancer, epithelial) cells. By contrast, 2 a and b showed moderate antiproliferative activity, but no apoptosis, in either cell line. Selective cytotoxicity of 5 in aggressive, mesenchymal-like MDA-MB-231 cells over many common epithelial cancer cell lines (including noninvasive breast cancer MCF-7) makes it an attractive lead compound for the development of specifically antimetastatic Ru complexes with low systemic toxicity.
Convenient synthesis of various substituted homotaurines from alk-2-enamides
Nai, Youfeng,Xu, Jiaxi
, p. 1355 - 1365 (2013/08/23)
Various substituted homotaurines (=3-aminopropane-1-sulfonic acids) 6 were readily synthesized in satisfactory to good yields via the Michael addition of thioacetic acid to alk-2-enamides 3 (→4), followed by LiAlH4 reduction (→5) and performic acid oxidation (Scheme 1). The configuration of 'anti'-disubstituted homotaurine 'anti'-6h was deduced from the 3-(acetylthio)alkanamide (=S-(3-amino-1,2-dimethyl-3-oxopropyl) ethanethioate)'anti'-4h formed in the Michael addition, which was identified via the Karplus equation analysis, and confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis. The current route is an efficient method to synthesize diverse substituted homotaurines, including 1-, 2-, and N-monosubstituted, as well as 1,2-, 1,N-, 2,N-, and N,N-disubstituted homotaurines (Table). Copyright
