The crystal compound was synthesized and characterized using conventional analytical techniques. The compound C19H21O3 crystallizes in a monoclinic crystal system with the space group P21/c. The crystal structure is stabilized by C-H…O interactions. The structure is further reinforced by π-π interactions. During in vitro inhibition of α-glucosidase, the crystal compound exhibited a significant inhibition of the enzyme (IC50: 10.30 ± 0.25 µg/mL) in comparison with the control, acarbose (IC50: 12.00 ± 0.10 µg/mL). Molecular docking studies were carried out for the crystal compound with the α-glucosidase protein model, which demonstrated that the crystal molecule has a good binding affinity (−10.8 kcal/mol) compared with that of acarbose (−8.2 kcal/mol). The molecular dynamics simulations and binding free energy calculations depicted the stability of the crystal molecule throughout the simulation period (100 ns). Further, a Hirshfeld analysis was carried out in order to understand the packing pattern and intermolecular interactions. The energy difference between the frontier molecular orbitals (FMO) was 4.95 eV.
Drug design is an integrated and developing system that portends an era of a novel and safe tailored drugs. It involves studying the effects of biologically active synthetic, semi-synthetic, and natural compounds based on molecular interactions in terms of molecular structure with activated functional groups or its unique physicochemical properties involved. The title compound,
N
-(2-aminophenyl)-2-(4-bromophenoxy) acetamide (
c
), was synthesized in a good yield and characterized by different spectroscopic techniques (
1
H,
13
CNMR, and LC-MS) and finally, the structure was confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies. The XRD data confirms that the cryatal structure is orthorhombic with space group of
Pca2
1
.
The intermolecular interactions (N–H … O and N–H … Cg) inside the molecule stabilizes the crystal structure. The existence of this intermolecular interactions are computed by the Hirshfeld surfaces (HS) and two-dimensional (2D) fingerprints plot analysis. In addition to this, Energy frame work analysis is performed to quantify the interaction energies between the molecular pairs in a crystal by incorporating new version of CrystalExplorer17 using the energy model of HF/3-21G. Also to calculate the HOMO and LUMO energies, DFT calculations were carried out.
Chalcones are the main component of some natural compounds. The title compound, 3-(2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-1-(naphthalen-2-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, was synthesized and characterized. The compound (C21H18O3) crystallizes in the triclinic system with the space group of P-1 (no. 2), a = 7.7705(4) Å, b = 10.2634(6) Å, c = 11.2487(6) Å, α = 79.655(5)°, β = 81.500(5)°, γ = 68.039(5)°, V = 815.28(9) Å3, Z = 2, T = 293(2) K, μ(MoKα) = 0.086 mm-1, Dcalc = 1.297 g/cm3, 9126 reflections measured (4.318° ≤ 2Θ ≤ 52.728°), 3302 unique (Rint = 0.0466, Rsigma = 0.0528) which were used in all calculations. The final R1 was 0.0568 (I > 2σ(I)) and wR2 was 0.1667 (all data). The crystal structure is stabilized by both short C-H···O inter- and intra-molecular interactions. In addition, the crystal structure is reinforced by π-π interactions. Hirshfeld surface analysis confirmed the presence of C-H···O intermolecular interactions. The two-dimensional fingerprint plots are used to visualize the individual interactions present in the molecule. DFT calculations were performed to know the energy levels of the frontier molecular orbitals (HOMO-LUMO). The energy gap between the frontier molecular orbitals shows the kinetic stability of the molecule. The chemical reactive sites are observed by generating MEP surface. Non-covalent interactions (NCIs) are analyzed using reduced density gradient (RDG) analysis.
The compound 2-(4-fluorophenoxy) acetic acid was synthesized by refluxing, 4-fluoro-phenol as a starting material with ethyl chloroacetate in acetone as solvent. The compound crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system with the space group P21/c. Crystal data for C8H7FO3, a = 13.3087(17) Å, b = 4.9912(6) Å, c = 11.6018(15) Å, β = 104.171(4)°, V = 747.21(16) Å3, Z = 4, T = 293(2) K, μ(CuKα) = 1.142 mm-1, Dcalc = 1.512 g/cm3, 8759 reflections measured (13.72° ≤ 2Θ ≤ 130.62°), 1246 unique (Rint = 0.0528) which were used in all calculations. The final R1 was 0.0458 (>2sigma(I)) and wR2 was 0.1313 (all data). The structure was stabilized by C-H···O and C-H···Cg interactions. The intermolecular interactions in the crystal were studied using Hirshfeld surface analysis. 3D energy frameworks were computed to visualize the packing modes. DFT calculations were performed. The FMOs were studied to estimate the kinetic stability and reactivity of the molecule. The MEP surface was generated to investigate the charge distribution and chemical reactive sites in the molecule.
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