YouTube is one of the most known
and used social networks among
students in the world, and undergraduate chemistry students are no
exception. Undeniably, YouTube can offer several advantages for complementing
university lessons in an asynchronous manner. There are many chemistry
channels available on the internet; however, they are mainly too general
or run by nonprofessionals, resulting in misconceptions or inaccuracies
that lead to student confusion. In this contribution, we present CADMIO,
a peer-to-peer reviewed YouTube channel with more than 60 videos in
Spanish language, 2,550 subscribers, and 6,000 hours of accumulated
views over the first year. These videos focus on introductory and
advanced topics in inorganic chemistry. CADMIO is a powerful, versatile,
and useful didactic tool, in which each video lesson presents basic
concepts in a clear and concise way, thorough methodologies to enhance
problem-solving skills, and an important variety of exercises to help
students learning. The wonderful and outstanding response of CADMIO
on the web and in the Faculty of Chemistry encourages us to improve
the channel, and recently, it has even become a Social Service program
in Mexico. Our unique concept for revised video content, secured by
an editorial board consisting of professors at the Facultad de Quı́mica,
UNAM, make CADMIO a truthful tool for teaching and learning chemistry.
A systematic, rational search for chalcone derivatives
with multifunctional
behavior has been carried out, with the support of a computer-assisted
protocol (CADMA-Chem). A total of 568 derivatives were constructed
by incorporating functional groups into the chalcone structure. Selection
scores were calculated from ADME properties, toxicity, and manufacturability
descriptors. They were used to select a subset of molecules (23) with
the best drug-like behavior. Reactivity indices were calculated for
this subset. They were chosen to account for electron and hydrogen
atom donating capabilities, which are key processes for antioxidant
activity. The indexes showed that four chalcone derivatives (dCHA-279,
dCHA-568, dCHA-553, and dCHA-283) are better electron and H donors
than the parent molecule and some reference antioxidants (Trolox,
ascorbic acid, and α-tocopherol). In addition, based on molecular
docking, they are predicted to act as catechol-O-methyltransferase
(COMT), acetylcholinesterase (AChE), and monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B)
inhibitors. Therefore, these four molecules are proposed as promising
candidates to act as multifunctional antioxidants with neuroprotective
effects.
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