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ArticleJournal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry2018

Are cucurbiturils better drug carriers for bent metallocenes? Insights from theory.

Dhurairajan Senthilnathan, Rajadurai Vijay Solomon, Shanmugam Kiruthika, Ponnambalam Venuvanalingam, Mahesh Sundararajan

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Article in Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Dhurairajan SenthilnathanCenter for Computational Chemistry, CRD, PRIST University, Vallam, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, 613403, India. zenthil03@yahoo.co.in.
Rajadurai Vijay SolomonDepartment of Chemistry, Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Tambaram East, Chennai, 600 059, India.
Shanmugam KiruthikaTheoretical and Computational Chemistry Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India.
Ponnambalam VenuvanalingamTheoretical and Computational Chemistry Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024, India.
Mahesh SundararajanTheoretical Chemistry Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400 085, India.
Bharathidasan University · INBhabha Atomic Research Centre · INPRIST University · IN

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Abstract

Bent metallocenes (BM) have anti-tumor properties but they face a serious drug efficacy problem due to poor aqueous solubility and rapid hydrolysis under physiological conditions. These two problems can be fixed by encapsulating them in host molecules such as cyclodextrin (CD), cucurbituril (CB) etc. Experimentally, CD-BM, CB-BM host-guest complexes have been investigated to check the efficiency of the drug delivery and efficiency of the encapsulated drug. CB has been reported to be a better host than CD but the reasons for this has not been figured out. This can be done by finding out the mechanism of binding and the nature of the binding forces in both the inclusion complexes. This is exactly done here by performing a DFT study at BP86/TZP level on CB-BM host-guest systems. For comparison CD-BM with β-cyclodextrin as host have been studied. Four BMs (Cp

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