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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2018

Aromatic Rings Commonly Used in Medicinal Chemistry: Force Fields Comparison and Interactions With Water Toward the Design of New Chemical Entities.

Marcelo D Polêto, Victor H Rusu, Bruno I Grisci, Marcio Dorn, Roberto D Lins, Hugo Verli

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Marcelo D PolêtoGrupo de Bioinformática Estrutural, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Victor H RusuSwiss National Supercomputing Centre, Lugano, Switzerland.
Bruno I GrisciInstituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Marcio DornInstituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Roberto D LinsInstituto Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, Brazil.
Hugo VerliGrupo de Bioinformática Estrutural, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BRCSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing CentreFundação Oswaldo Cruz · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The identification of lead compounds usually includes a step of chemical diversity generation. Its rationale may be supported by both qualitative (SAR) and quantitative (QSAR) approaches, offering models of the putative ligand-receptor interactions. In both scenarios, our understanding of which interactions functional groups can perform is mostly based on their chemical nature (such as electronegativity, volume, melting point, lipophilicity etc.) instead of their dynamics in aqueous, biological solutions (solvent accessibility, lifetime of hydrogen bonds, solvent structure etc.). As a consequence, it is challenging to predict from 2D structures which functional groups will be able to perform interactions with the target receptor, at which intensity and relative abundance in the biological environment, all of which will contribute to ligand potency and intrinsic activity. With this in mind, the aim of this work is to assess properties of aromatic rings, commonly used for drug design, in aqueous solution through molecular dynamics simulations in order to characterize their chemical features and infer their impact in complexation dynamics. For this, common aromatic and heteroaromatic rings were selected and received new atomic charge set based on the direction and module of the dipole moment from MP2/6-31G

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