New Fukui, dual and hyper-dual kernels as bond reactivity descriptors

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (24) ◽  
pp. 16095-16104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Franco-Pérez ◽  
Carlos-A Polanco-Ramírez ◽  
Paul W. Ayers ◽  
José L. Gázquez ◽  
Alberto Vela

Three new bond reactivity indicators are presented within the framework of the temperature dependent chemical reactivity theory.

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (21) ◽  
pp. 13687-13695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Franco-Pérez ◽  
Paul W. Ayers ◽  
José L. Gázquez ◽  
Alberto Vela

From the definition of a local chemical potential, well-behaved expressions for the local hardness and the dual descriptors are derived.


2020 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Franco-Pérez ◽  
Carlos A. Polanco-Ramírez ◽  
José L. Gázquez ◽  
Paul W. Ayers ◽  
Alberto Vela

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Frau ◽  
Norma Flores-Holguín ◽  
Daniel Glossman-Mitnik

This work presents an account of the reactivity behavior of the anticancer marine drugs, Soblidotin and Tasidotin, based on the calculation of the global and local descriptors resulting from Chemical Reactivity Theory (CRT), also known as Conceptual DFT, for their consideration as a useful complement to approximations based on Molecular Docking. The information on the global and local reactivity descriptors of the Soblidotin and Tasidotin molecules, obtained through our proposed methodology, may be used for the design of new pharmaceutical analogs by relying on the chemical interactions between these peptides and their protein-type biological receptors. It can be concluded that the CRT approximation to the global and local chemical reactivity, based on the descriptors, can provide interesting information for the consideration of both molecules as potential therapeutic drugs. This is complemented by a study on Advanced Glycation Endproduct (AGE) inhibition, by comparison with the usual molecular systems considered for the task, as a re-purposing study. Finally, the bioactivity scores for Soblidotin and Tasidotin are predicted through an empirical procedure, based on comparison with molecular structures with well-known pharmacological properties.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Oller ◽  
David A. Sáez ◽  
Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez

<div><div><div><p>Local reactivity descriptors such as atom condensed Fukui functions are promising computational tools to study chemical reactivity at specific sites within a molecule. Their applications have been mainly focused on isolated molecules in their most stable conformation without considering the effects of the surroundings. Here, we propose to combine QM/MM Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations to obtain the microstates (configurations) of a molecular system using different representations of the molecular environment and calculate Boltzmann weighted atom condensed local reac- tivity descriptors based on conceptual DFT. Our approach takes the conformational fluctuations of the molecular system and the polarization of its electron density by the environment into account allowing us to analyze the effect of changes in the molecular environment on reactivity. In this contribution, we apply the method mentioned above to the catalytic fixation of carbon dioxide by crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase and study if the enzyme alters the reactivity of its substrate compared to an aqueous solution. Our main result is that the protein en- vironment activates the substrate by the elimination of solute-solvent hydrogen bonds from aqueous solution in the two elementary steps of the reaction mechanism: the nucleophilic attack of a hydride anion from NADPH on the α, β unsaturated thioester and the electrophilic attack of carbon dioxide on the formed enolate species.</p></div></div></div>


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 857-873
Author(s):  
Kornelia Czaja ◽  
Jacek Kujawski ◽  
Radosław Kujawski ◽  
Marek K. Bernard

AbstractUsing the density functional theory (DFT) formalism, we have investigated the properties of some arylsulphonyl indazole derivatives that we studied previously for their biological activity and susceptibility to interactions of azoles. This study includes the following physicochemical properties of these derivatives: electronegativity and polarisability (Mulliken charges, adjusted charge partitioning, and iterative-adjusted charge partitioning approaches); free energy of solvation (solvation model based on density model and M062X functional); highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO)–lowest occupied molecular orbital (LUMO) gap together with the corresponding condensed Fukui functions, time-dependent DFT along with the UV spectra simulations using B3LYP, CAM-B3LYP, MPW1PW91, and WB97XD functionals, as well as linear response polarisable continuum model; and estimation of global chemical reactivity descriptors, particularly the chemical hardness factor. The charges on pyrrolic and pyridinic nitrogen (the latter one in the quinolone ring of compound 8, as well as condensed Fukui functions) reveal a significant role of these atoms in potential interactions of azole ligand–protein binding pocket. The lowest negative value of free energy of solvation can be attributed to carbazole 6, whereas pyrazole 7 has the least negative value of this energy. Moreover, the HOMO–LUMO gap and chemical hardness show that carbazole 6 and indole 5 exist as soft molecules, while fused pyrazole 7 has hard character.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-812
Author(s):  
Ahissandonatien Ehouman ◽  
Adjoumanirodrigue Kouakou ◽  
Fatogoma Diarrassouba ◽  
Hakim Abdel Aziz Ouattara ◽  
Paulin Marius Niamien

Our theoretical study of stability and reactivity was carried out on six (06) molecules of a series of pyrimidine tetrazole hybrids (PTH) substituted with H, F, Cl, Br, OCH3 and CH3 atoms and groups of atoms using the density function theory (DFT). Analysis of the thermodynamic formation quantities confirmed the formation and existence of the series of molecules studied. Quantum chemical calculations at the B3LYP / 6-311G (d, p) level of theory determined molecular descriptors. Global reactivity descriptors were also determined and analyzed. Thus, the results showed that the compound PTH_1 is the most stable, and PTH_5 is the most reactive and nucleophilic. Similarly, the compound PTH_4 is the most electrophilic. The analysis of the local descriptors and the boundary molecular orbitals allowed us to identify the preferred atoms for electrophilic and nucleophilic attacks.


Author(s):  
Kouadio Valery Bohoussou ◽  
Anoubilé Bénié ◽  
Mamadou Guy-Richard Koné ◽  
N’guessan Yao Silvère Diki ◽  
Kafoumba Bamba ◽  
...  

In this work the formation of vinylphosphines was studied through the hydrophosphination reaction. The study aims to rationalize the stereoselectivity of these compounds using quantum DFT methods. This theoretical study of chemical reactivity was conducted at B3LYP/6-311 + G (d, p) level. Global chemical reactivity descriptors, stationary point energies and activation barriers were examined to foretell the relative stability of the stereoisomers formed. The various results obtained have revealed that the addition of arylphosphine to dihalogenoacetylene is stereospecific. The Trans form of vinylphosphines is more stable than the Cis form, when the substituent on phosphorus generates less or no π-conjugations. On the other hand, the Cis isomer is predominant when the aryl radical favors more π-conjugations. The theoretical results obtained are in agreement with the experimental results.


2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (30) ◽  
pp. 8660-8667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Cárdenas ◽  
Nataly Rabi ◽  
Paul W. Ayers ◽  
Christophe Morell ◽  
Paula Jaramillo ◽  
...  

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