“…Herein we report a new tetranuclear Pb(II) coordination cage synthesized with the 4-nitrobenzoic acid introduced into the system of Pb II /8-hydroxyquinoline. In recent years, a few Pb(II) complexes have been reported concerning their biological activities, such as DNA binding property (Gao et al, 2017;Li et al, 2008;Shen et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2015), anticancer (Abd-Elzaher et al, 2012;Ghosh et al, 2017) and antimicrobial (El-Megharbel et al, 2014;Kurtaran et al, 2005;Pallikkavil et al, 2013;Ravichandran et al, 2014;Singh et al, 2010) activity. In this paper, in addition to the complex was characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, and X-ray singlecrystal diffraction, as an attempt, the interaction between the complex, [Pb(8-OQ)(4-NB)], and DNA was investigated by UV absorption and fluorescence spectra, anticancer activity against MCF-7, HepG-2 and A549 cell lines of the complex was also tested by the MTT-based assay.…”