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Optically pure enantiomeric pair viz. ferrocene functionalized chiral tertiary amines S,S-(-)-1 and R,R-(+)-2 have been synthesized from ferrocenylmethylamine to probe the influence of chirality and the redox potential on their anti-proliferative activity. Compounds were characterized by microanalysis, HPLC, 1H, 13C NMR, UV-visible, fluorescence, FTIR, thermogravimetric and crystallographic techniques. The single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) study revealed that the molecules of 1 holding S,S-chirality at benzylic carbons forms a fascinating M-helix while 2 holding R,R-chirality at benzylic carbons forms P-helix by involving intra- and intermolecular H-bonding interactions as verified by Hirshfeld surface analysis. Chirality-related influence was observed on the antiproliferative activity of enantiomeric pair and at the supramolecular level. For instance, enantiomer R,R-(+)-2 is found to be highly active against all the investigated human carcinoma cell lines MCF 7, IMR 32, HepG2, and immortal L132 cell lines. In particular, R,R-(+)-2 exhibited more than 10 folds better antiproliferation (IC 50: 6.35±0.19 μM) than other enantiomer S,S-(-)-1 (IC50: 65.96 ± 0.12 μM) and four folds better activity than highly successful anticancer drug, cisplatin (IC50: 24.3 ± 1.7 μM) against Hep G2 cell line. The electrochemical, DFT calculations and molecular docking study have been performed to justify the experimental outcomes. |
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