Design, synthesis, characterization and evaluation of the anticancer activity of water-soluble half-sandwich ruthenium(<scp>ii</scp>) arene halido complexes

Abstract

Synthesis, crystal structure determination, DFT studies, experimental and theoretical evaluation of DNA/BSA interactions and cytotoxicity studies of three piano-stool Ru(<sc>ii</sc>)(<italic>p</italic>-cymene)chloride complexes (<bold>1–3</bold>) are presented herein.