To Dr. Scott E. Denmark in his 60th birthday’s celebration. With gratitude and best wishes from Dr. Mirna Rivera Claudio.
Abstract
Two new ferrocene acetals were synthesized from a chiral diol in toluene and characterized
by a range of spectroscopic techniques. The biological activities of the products
were evaluated by using the breast adenocarcinoma cell lines T47D, MCF7, ZR-75-1,
MD-MB-468, and MD-MB-231. In comparison with tamoxifen, the ferrocene acetals showed
moderate anticancer activity in vitro for the T47D and MCF7 cell lines.
Key words
acetals - organometallic compounds - iron - drugs