The anticancer drug cisplatin Pt(NH3)2Cl2 reacts with DNA inthe nucleus of a cel

The anticancer drug cisplatin Pt(NH3)2Cl2 reacts with DNA inthe nucleus of a cell. This prevents the cell from dividing. Normalcells can repair the DNA damage but cancer cells are unable torepair the damage and soon die. The reaction of cisplatin with DNAcan be (approximately) represented as: Pt(NH3)2Cl2 + 2 DNA ?Pt(NH3)2(DNA)2 + 2 Cl In 1990 several experiments wereperformed at MIT to study the kinetics of the reaction betweencisplatin and DNA: