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Electrostatic Moments (electrostatic + moment)
Selected AbstractsProgress in the Understanding of Drug,Receptor Interactions, Part,2: Experimental and Theoretical Electrostatic Moments and Interaction Energies of an Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonist (C30H30N6O3S)CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 24 2007Raffaella Soave Dr. Abstract A combined experimental and theoretical charge density study of an angiotensin II receptor antagonist (1) is presented focusing on electrostatic properties such as atomic charges, molecular electric moments up to the fourth rank and energies of the intermolecular interactions, to gain an insight into the physical nature of the drug,receptor interaction. Electrostatic properties were derived from both the experimental electron density (multipole refinement of X-ray data collected at T=17,K) and the ab initio wavefunction (single molecule and fully periodic calculations at the DFT level). The relevance of S,,,O and S,,,N intramolecular interactions on the activity of 1 is highlighted by using both the crystal and gas-phase geometries and their electrostatic nature is documented by means of QTAIM atomic charges. The derived electrostatic properties are consistent with a nearly spherical electron density distribution, characterised by an intermingling of electropositive and -negative zones rather than by a unique electrophilic region opposed to a nucleophilic area. This makes the first molecular moment scarcely significant and ill-determined, whereas the second moment is large, significant and highly reliable. A comparison between experimental and theoretical components of the third electric moment shows a few discrepancies, whereas the agreement for the fourth electric moment is excellent. The most favourable intermolecular bond is show to be an NH,,,N hydrogen bond with an energy of about 50,kJ,mol,1. Key pharmacophoric features responsible for attractive electrostatic interactions include CH,,,X hydrogen bonds. It is shown that methyl and methylene groups, known to be essential for the biological activity of the drug, provide a significant energetic contribution to the total binding energy. Dispersive interactions are important at the thiophene and at both the phenyl fragments. The experimental estimates of the electrostatic contribution to the intermolecular interaction energies of six molecular pairs, obtained by a new model proposed by Spackman, predict the correct relative electrostatic energies with no exceptions. [source] Advancing beyond charge analysis using the electronic localization function: Chemically intuitive distribution of electrostatic momentsJOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 9 2008Julien Pilmé Abstract We propose here an evaluation of chemically intuitive distributed electrostatic moments using the topological analysis of the electron localization function (ELF). As this partition of the total charge density provides an accurate representation of the molecular dipole, the distributed electrostatic moments based on the ELF partition (DEMEP) allows computing of local moments located at non atomic centers such as lone pairs, , bonds and , systems. As the local dipole contribution can be decomposed in polarization and charge transfer components, our results indicate that local dipolar polarization of the lone pairs and chemical reactivity are closely related whereas the charge transfer contribution is the key factor driving the local bond dipole. Results on relevant molecules show that local dipole contributions can be used to rationalize inductive polarization effects in alcohols derivatives and typical hydrogen bond interactions. Moreover, bond quadrupole polarization moments being related to a , character enable to discuss bond multiplicities, and to sort families of molecules according to their bond order. That way, the nature of the CO bond has been revisited for several typical systems by means of the DEMEP analysis which appears also helpful to discuss aromaticity. Special attention has been given to the carbon monoxide molecule, to the CuCO complex and to a weak intramolecular N|---CO interaction involved in several biological systems. In this latter case, it is confirmed that the bond formation is mainly linked to the CO bond polarization. Transferability tests show that the approach is suitable for the design of advanced force fields. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 2008 [source] The interplay between experiment and theory in charge-density analysisACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION A, Issue 5 2004Philip Coppens The comparison of theory and experiment remains a cornerstone of scientific inquiry. Various levels of such comparison applicable to charge-density analysis are discussed, including static and dynamic electron densities, topological properties, d -orbital occupancies and electrostatic moments. The advantages and drawbacks of the pseudoatom multipole are discussed, as are the experimentally constrained wavefunctions introduced by Jayatilaka and co-workers, which combine energy minimization with the requirement to provide a reasonable fit to the X-ray structure factors. The transferability of atomic densities can be exploited through construction of a pseudoatom databank, which may be based on analysis of ab initio molecular electron densities, and can be used to evaluate a host of physical properties. Partitioning of theoretical energies with the Morokuma,Ziegler energy decomposition scheme allows direct comparison with electrostatic interaction energies obtained from electron densities represented by the pseudoatom formalism. Compared with the Buckingham expression for the interaction between non-overlapping densities, the agreement with theory is much improved when a newly developed hybrid EP/MM (exact potential/multipole model) method is employed. [source] | ||||||||||