The invention discloses an
indium complex taking APT as a ligand and having a potential
leaving group as well as a synthesis method and application of the
indium complex. The synthesis method comprises the following steps: dissolving 2-acetylpyridine in a
mixed solution of
methanol and
acetonitrile, adding aminothiourea, uniformly mixing the mixture, dropwise adding
acetic acid, uniformly mixing the mixture, refluxing the
mixed solution, performing vacuum concentration to obtain a concentrate, extracting the concentrate with
ethyl acetate, washing a product with saturated
sodium bicarbonate and water in order after the extraction step, and carrying out
silica gel column chromatography separation to obtain a ligand; adding the ligand obtained in the step 1) and INCl3 into a closed reactionkettle, dropwise adding a
mixed solution of
methanol and
ethanol for dissolving, sealing the reaction kettle after dissolving, and standing the reaction kettle in a
vacuum drying oven at 65-80 DEG C for 72 hours to obtain the
indium complex. The complex shows good inhibition activity on a
cisplatin drug-
resistant strain, new data is provided for application of the novel
metal-based complex to
drug-resistant tumor
cell strains, and the synthesis method is simple to operate and convenient to implement.