Abstract
Some tricyclohexyltin(IV) carboxylates, HOOC–R–COOSn(c-C6H11)3 (1) and (c-C6H11)3SnOOC–R–COOSn(c-C6H11)3 (2) [R = 1,2-C6H4 (a), 1,2-C6F4 (b), (Z)-CH=CH (c), CH2CH2 (d)], have been synthesized from reaction of tricyclohexyltin hydroxide with cyclic dicarboxylic anhydrides under microwave irradiation in 1 : 1 and 2 : 1 M ratio, respectively, and characterized by elemental analysis, IR and NMR (1H, 13C, and 119Sn) spectra. Crystal structures of 1a–1c and 2d are determined by X-ray single crystal diffraction. The carboxylate in each compound is monodentate to tin. Compounds 1a and 1c possess a trans-C3SnO2 trigonal bipyramidal geometry with axial positions occupied by carboxylate and carbonyl oxygen of carboxylate of an adjacent molecule forming a one-dimensional chain. Compound 1b is tetrahedral and forms R 2 2(8) hydrogen-bonded dimers by pairs of intermolecular O–HO hydrogen bonds between two carboxylic acid groups. Compound 2d is dinuclear with tin possessing distorted tetrahedral geometry; a trimer supramolecular structure is formed by weak intermolecular SnO interactions. The compounds have potent in vitro cytotoxic activity against two human tumor cell lines, A549 and HeLa.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China (ZR2010BL012) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20931001; 21173126).