Synthesis, anti-bacterial evaluation, DFT study and molecular docking as a potential 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro) of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors of a novel Schiff bases was written by Al-Janabi, Ahmed S. M.;Elzupir, Amin O.;Yousef, Tarek A.. And the article was included in Journal of Molecular Structure in 2021.Computed Properties of C12H9NO This article mentions the following:
New Schiff bases (L1H) I (I), (L2H) II (II), (L3H) III (III) were synthesized by reaction of 2-benzoylpyridine with different amines (2-amino-6-chlorobenzothiazole, isonicotinohydrazide and N1-(naphthalen-1-yl)ethane-1,2-diamine) and characterized by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, IR mass spectroscopy and elemental anal. The compounds (I), (II) and (III) were assayed by the disk diffusion method for anti-bacterial against five pathogenic bacteria species (Staphylococcus aureus, Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococcus pyogenes, Bacillus subtilis, and E. coli). All prepared Schiff bases (I), (II) and (III) showed good activity compared to pos. control (streptomycin). Moreover the L3H showed the highest activity against S. aureus, and M. luteus than the other compounds and streptomycin. In addnl. mol. docking studies with 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro), the essential enzyme for SARS-CoV-2 proliferation. The rest of compounds have shown promising results as 3CLpro inhibitors interacting with the active sites of the enzymes. Finally, DFT’s estimated electrostatic mol. potential results were used to illustrate the mol. docking findings. The DFT calculations showed that L3H has the highest dipole moment and electrophilicity index. Interestingly, L2H of the largest energy gap ΔE = 2.49 eV, there are several hydrophilic interactions that could facilitate the binding with the receptors. All of these parameters could be shared to significantly affect the protein sites of binding affinity with different extent. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, Phenyl(pyridin-2-yl)methanone (cas: 91-02-1Computed Properties of C12H9NO).
Phenyl(pyridin-2-yl)methanone (cas: 91-02-1) belongs to pyridine derivatives. Pyridines are an important class of heterocycles and occur in polysubstituted forms in many naturally occurring biologically active compounds, drug molecules and chiral ligands. Halopyridines are particularly attractive synthetic building blocks in a variety of cross-coupling methods, including the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction.Computed Properties of C12H9NO