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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 58, Issue 21, Pages 14294-14298Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02093
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- MEXT-Supported Program of the Strategic Research Foundation at Private University
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Metal complexes to promote oxidative DNA cleavage by H2O2 are desirable as anticancer drugs. A dicopper(II) complex of known p-cresol-derived methylene-tether ligand Hbcc [Cu-2(bcc)](3+) did not promote DNA cleavage by H2O2. Here, we synthesized a new p-cresol-derived amide-tether one, 2,6-bis(1,4,7,10-tetrazacyclododecyl-1-carboxyamide)-p-cresol (Hbcamide). A dicopper(II) complex of the new ligand [Cu-2(mu-OH)(bcamide)](2+) was structurally characterized. This complex promoted the oxidative cleavage of supercoiled plasmid pUC19 DNA (Form I) with H2O2 at pH 6.0-8.2 to give Forms II and III. The reaction was largely accelerated in a high pH region. A mu-1,1-hydroperoxo species was formed as the active species and spectroscopically identified. The amide-tether complex is more effective in cytotoxicity against HeLa cells than the methylene-tether one.
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