“In Silico” Design of New Uranyl Extractants Based on Phosphoryl-Containing Podands: QSPR Studies, Generation and Screening of Virtual Combinatorial Library, and Experimental Tests
This paper is devoted to computer-aided design of new extractants of the uranyl cation involving three main steps: (i) a QSPR study, (ii) generation and screening of a virtual combinatorial library, and (iii) synthesis of several predicted compounds and their experimental extraction studies. First,...
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Published in | Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 1365 - 1382 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
American Chemical Society
01.07.2004
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Summary: | This paper is devoted to computer-aided design of new extractants of the uranyl cation involving three main steps: (i) a QSPR study, (ii) generation and screening of a virtual combinatorial library, and (iii) synthesis of several predicted compounds and their experimental extraction studies. First, we performed a QSPR modeling of the distribution coefficient (logD) of uranyl extracted by phosphoryl-containing podands from water to 1,2-dichloroethane. Two different approaches were used: one based on classical structural and physicochemical descriptors (implemented in the CODESSA PRO program) and another one based on fragment descriptors (implemented in the TRAIL program). Three statistically significant models obtained with TRAIL involve as descriptors either sequences of atoms and bonds or atoms with their close environment (augmented atoms). The best models of CODESSA PRO include its own molecular descriptors as well as fragment descriptors obtained with TRAIL. At the second step, a virtual combinatorial library of 2024 podands has been generated with the CombiLib program, followed by the assessment of logD values using developed QSPR models. At the third step, eight of these hypothetical compounds were synthesized and tested experimentally. Comparison with experiment shows that developed QSPR models successfully predict logD values for 7 of 8 compounds from that “blind test” set. |
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Bibliography: | istex:4BC43F4172327762FBF4CBDCBC2B84647E32596A ark:/67375/TPS-T6NJT87N-0 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0095-2338 1549-960X 1520-5142 |
DOI: | 10.1021/ci049976b |