Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Quinoline Fused Benzodiazepines as Anxiolytic and Antimicrobial Agents

In the present study, an efficient, facile and green protocol for synthesis of quinoline fused 1,4-benzodiazepine (4a-j) by microwave irradiated condensation of 6/7/8-substituted 3-bromomethyl- 2-chloro-quinoline (3a-j) obtained from 2-chloro 6/7/8-substituted quinoline-3-carbaldehyde (1a-j) with 1, 2-phenylenediamine was developed. Surflex docking studies with K+ channel is one of the physiological targets and inhibition, which plays a role in the pathophysiology of depression revealed that all these compounds show consensus score in the range 2.71-3.68 indicating the summary of all forces of interaction. Further, compounds 4d, 4g and 4i exhibited potent antibacterial activity

Study of Molecular Docking of Mu Opioid Receptor Agonist - Fentanyl and its Analogs Based on Docking

The interaction mechanism of a series of fentanyl analogs are examined using molecular docking to the mu-opioid receptor based on Surflex-Docking. Fully automatic flexible molecular docking (Surflex-Docking) was performed by using the possible active conformations of 70 fentanyl analogs and optimized 3D structure of mu-opioid receptor. The site mainly consist of residues ILE 109, ASP 112, TYR113, MET116, HIS262, TYR291. All these residues take part in interaction between fentanyl and mu-opioid receptor. Meanwhile, the results provide new insight to design of experiments aimed at understanding the structure.

Development of molecular docking-based binding energy to predict the joint effect of BPA and its analogs

A general proposal for predicting the joint effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals by examining binding energy models was developed in this study. 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane (BPA) and 11 of its analogs were chosen, and the estrogenic activity of each compound was measured by determining its EC50 value using a recombinant gene yeast assay. Binding energies (BEs) were calculated using Surflex-Docking software. The analysis of the relationship between EC50 values and BEs showed that there is a linear correlation between the BEs and EC50 values. Furthermore, the analysis of the given binary and quaternary mixtures of BPA and three of its analogs showed that the joint effects of the mixtures were affected by the proportions of the chemicals in each mixture and their relative binding energy. The correlation between the joint effects of mixtures and the binding energy of the individual compounds has been described using one formula, which can be used to predict the joint effects of other mixtures.