Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) as effective candidates have been used in the treatment of hormone-dependent breast cancer. In this study, we have proposed 300 structures as potential AIs and filtered them by Lipinski's rule of five using DrugLito software. Subsequently, they were subjected to docking simulation studies to select the top 20 compounds based on their Gibbs free energy changes and also to perform more studies on the protein-ligand interaction fingerprint by AuposSOM software. In this stage, anastrozole and letrozole were used as positive control to compare their interaction fingerprint patterns with our proposed structures. Finally, based on the binding energy values, one active structure (ligand 15) was selected for molecular dynamic simulation in order to get information for the binding mode of these ligands within the enzyme cavity. The triazole of ligand 15 pointed to HEM group in aromatase active site and coordinated to Fe of HEM through its N4 atom. In addition, two π-cation interactions was also observed, one interaction between triazole and porphyrin of HEM group, and the other was 4-chloro phenyl moiety of this ligand with Arg115 residue.

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A family of cationic cycloplatinated­(II) complexes [Pt­(dfppy)­(P^P)]­Cl incorporating bisphosphine ligands was prepared: (dfppy = 2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)­pyridine; P^P = bis­(diphenylphosphino)­methane (1, dppm), 1,2-bis­(diphenylphosphino)­ethane (2, dppe), 1,2-bis­(diphenylphosphino)­benzene (3, dppbz)). The complexes were characterized by means of several analytical and spectroscopic methods. These complexes displayed acceptable stability in biological environments, which was confirmed by NMR, HR ESI-MS, and UV–vis techniques. The antiproliferative properties of these complexes were evaluated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) against 60 different human tumor cell lines such as leukemia, melanoma, lung, colon, brain, ovary, breast, prostate, and kidney. These complexes showed higher cytotoxicity in comparison to cisplatin against a wide variety of cancer cell lines such as K-562 (leukemia), HOP-92 (lung), HCT-116 (colon), OVCAR-8 (ovarian), PC-3 (prostate), MDA-MB-468 (breast), and melanoma cancer cell lines. Complex 3, as the most potent compound in this study, furnished an excellent antiproliferative activity in comparison to cisplatin against Hela, SKOV3, and MCF-7 cancer cell lines. The main mode of the interactions of 1–3 with DNA was also determined using molecular docking studies.

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