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4-4-20 anti-fluorescyl IgG Fab' recognition of membrane bound hapten: direct evidence for the role of protein and interfacial structure.
1995
The surface forces apparatus was used to identify the molecular forces that control the interactions of monoclonal 4-4-20 antifluorescyl IgG Fab' fragments with fluorescein-presenting supported planar bilayers. At long range, the electrostatic force between oriented Fab' and fluorescein monolayers was controlled by the composition of the protein exterior surrounding the antigen-combining site rather than by the overall protein charge. The measured positive electrostatic potential of the Fab' monolayer at pH > pI(Fab') was consistent with the structure of the exposed Fab' surface in which a ring of positive charge at the mouth of the antigen-combining site dominates the local electrostatic s…
Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and in vitro antimicrobial activity of diorganotin(IV) dichloride adducts with [1,2,4]triazolo-[1,5-a]pyrim…
2006
Abstract The heterocyclic ligands [1,2,4]triazolo-[1,5-a]pyrimidine (tp) and 5,7-dimethyl-[1,2,4]triazolo-[1,5-a]pyrimidine (dmtp), react with diorganotin dichlorides giving the addition compounds Me2SnCl2(tp)2, Et2SnCl2(tp)2, Me2SnCl2(dmtp)2, Et2SnCl2(dmtp)2, Bu2SnCl2(dmtp), Ph2SnCl2(dmtp). The organotin:ligand stoichiometry goes from 1:2 to 1:1 by increasing the steric hindrance of the organic groups bound to tin. The compounds have been characterized by means of infrared, 119Sn Mossbauer and 1H AND 13C NMR spectroscopy. The ligands presumably coordinate to tin classically through the nitrogen atom at the position 3. The 1:1 complexes adopt trigonal bipyramidal structures, with the organi…
Pyrrolidine in Drug Discovery: A Versatile Scaffold for Novel Biologically Active Compounds
2021
AbstractThe five-membered pyrrolidine ring is one of the nitrogen heterocycles used widely by medicinal chemists to obtain compounds for the treatment of human diseases. The great interest in this saturated scaffold is enhanced by (1) the possibility to efficiently explore the pharmacophore space due to sp3-hybridization, (2) the contribution to the stereochemistry of the molecule, (3) and the increased three-dimensional (3D) coverage due to the non-planarity of the ring—a phenomenon called “pseudorotation”. In this review, we report bioactive molecules with target selectivity characterized by the pyrrolidine ring and its derivatives, including pyrrolizines, pyrrolidine-2-one, pyrrolidine-2…
Polarization Force Fields for Peptides Implemented in ECEPP2 and MM2
2000
Abstract The empirical conformational energy program for peptides (ECEPP2) and molecular mechanics (MM2) have been used for the simulation of the For-Gly-NH2 backbone. I propose two different methods for the calculation of the polarization energy term: the polarization procedure by non-interacting induced dipoles (NID) which assumes scalar isotropic point polarizabilities and the polarization scheme by interacting induced dipoles (ID) which calculates tensor effective anisotropic point polarizabilities (method of Applequist). I present a comparative study of ECEPP2 and MM2 + polarization. I discuss molecular mechanics results including the total energy differences, partitional analyses of t…
Role of hydrophobicity on the monoamine receptor binding affinities of central nervous system drugs: a quantitative retention-activity relationships …
2004
Abstract Biological action and activity reflect an aspect of the fundamental physicochemical properties of the bioactive compounds. As an alternative to classical QSAR studies, in this work different quantitative retention–activity relationships (QRAR) models are proposed, which are able to describe the role of hydrophobicity on the binding affinity to different brain monoamine receptors (H 1 -histamine, α 1 -noradrenergic and 5-HT 2 -serotonergic) of different families of psychotherapeutic drugs. The retention of compounds is measured in a biopartitioning micellar chromatography (BMC) system using Brij-35 mobile phases. The adequacy of the QRAR models developed is due to the fact that both…
Contact formation in random networks of elongated objects
2014
The effect of steric hindrance is an important aspect of granular packings as it gives rise to, e.g., limitations on the densities of ordered and disordered packings, both of which are essentially defined by the geometry of the constituents. Here we focus on the random packing of rods via deposition and their distributions of contact number and segment length. Such statistical properties are relevant for mechanical properties of the structures, but the (quite large) steric effects on them have not been addressed in previous studies. We therefore develop a theory that describes the statistical properties of rod packings, while taking into account that the deposited rods cannot overlap and th…
First Principles Calculations for Hydrogenation of Acrolein on Pd and Pt: Chemoselectivity Depends on Steric Effects on the Surface
2016
The chemoselective hydrogenation of acrolein on Pt(111) and Pd(111) surfaces is investigated employing density functional theory calculations. The computed potential energy surfaces together with the analysis of reaction mechanisms demonstrate that steric effects are an important factor that governs chemoselectivity. The reactions at the C=O functionality require more space than the reactions at the C=C functionality. Therefore the formation of allyl alcohol is more favorable at low coverage, while the reduction of the C=C bond and the formation of propanal becomes kinetically more favorable at higher coverage. The elementary reaction steps are found to follow different reaction mechanisms,…
Ab initio study of structure and energetics of species involved in the 2,4-dinitro-toluene hydrogenation on Pd catalysts
2002
Abstract Quantum-mechanical calculations, at HF level, were performed to gain chemical–physical basis information on the 2,4-dinitro-toluene hydrogenation occurring over palladium catalysts. To investigate the surface characteristics of the species involved in the reaction system, simplified molecular models including small metal clusters were considered. Remarkable findings, useful to elucidate the reaction mechanism and important parameters, working in time dependent Monte-Carlo simulations of the title reaction, were obtained; inter alia: the molar standard free energies of the molecules involved in the reaction, the volume occupied by the species in solution phase and the qualitative or…
Zur Stereochemie der Oxidation chiraler, tertiärer Phosphine mit Dimethylsulfoxid
1976
Es wird uber den sterischen Verlauf der Oxidation der optisch aktiven, tertiaren Phosphine 3 and 4 mit Dimethylsulfoxid berichtet. Diese Umsetzung verlauft nur in Gegenwart elektrophiler Katalysatoren (Tabelle 1). Je nach Art and Menge des Katalysators zeigt die Stereochemie der Reaktion entweder uberwiegende Inversion oder Retention der Konfiguration am Phosphor an (Tabellen 2, 3); in einigen Fallen wird jedoch fast vollstandige Racemisierung beobachtet (Tabelle3). Auf der Grundlage dieser stereochemischen Resultate werden mogliche Mechanismen fur diese Umsetzung diskutiert. The Sterochemistry of the Oxidation of Chiral Tertiary Phosphines by Means of Dimethyl Sulfoxide The steric course o…
Hydrogenation of 2,4-Dinitro-toluene on Pd/C Catalysts: Computational Study on the Influence of the Molecular Adsorption Modes and of Steric Hindranc…
2002
Abstract A new time-dependent Monte Carlo algorithm was developed to simulate isobar and isotherm three-phase batch hydrogenation of 2,4-dinitro-toluene on Pd/C catalysts. A new reaction mechanism was formulated, involving 9 and 27 toluene derivatives, in solution and adsorbed on the surface, respectively. In fact, three different ways of adsorption were considered for all surface derivatives. Microscopic mechanistic hypotheses were formulated analyzing the mimicked surface populations able to reproduce the experimental catalytic activity–selectivity patterns at different times, temperatures, reagent concentrations, and catalyst particle morphologies. The three different adsorption modes, g…