Jaladanki, Chaitanya K. published the artcileToxicity Originating from Thiophene Containing Drugs: Exploring the Mechanism using Quantum Chemical Methods, Application In Synthesis of 40180-04-9, the main research area is thiophene drug toxicity quantum chem cytochrome P 450 metabolism.
Drug metabolism of thiophene containing substrates by cytochrome P450s (CYP450) leads to toxic side effects, for example, nephrotoxicity (suprofen, ticlopidine), hepatotoxicity (tienilic acid), thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (clopidogrel), and aplastic anemia (ticlopidine). The origin of toxicity in these cases has been attributed to two different CYP450 mediated metabolic reactions: S-oxidation and epoxidation In this work, the mol. level details of the bioinorganic chem. associated with the generation of these competitive reactions are reported. D. functional theory was utilized (i) to explore the mol. mechanism for S-oxidation and epoxidation using the radical cationic center Cpd I [(iron(IV)-oxo-heme porphine system with SH- as the axial ligand, to mimic CYP450s] as the model oxidant, (ii) to establish the 3D structures of the reactants, transition states, and products on both the metabolic pathways, and (iii) to examine the potential energy (PE) profile for both the pathways to determine the energetically preferred toxic metabolite formation. The energy barrier required for S-oxidation was observed to be 14.75 kcal/mol as compared to that of the epoxidation reaction (13.23 kcal/mol) on the doublet PE surface of Cpd I. The formation of the epoxide metabolite was found to be highly exothermic (-23.24 kcal/mol), as compared to S-oxidation (-8.08 kcal/mol). Hence, on a relative scale the epoxidation process was observed to be thermodynamically and kinetically more favorable. The energy profiles associated with the reactions of the S-oxide and epoxide toxic metabolites were also explored. This study helps in understanding the CYP450-catalyzed toxic reactions of drugs containing the thiophene ring at the at. level.
Chemical Research in Toxicology published new progress about Aplastic anemia. 40180-04-9 belongs to class benzothiophene, name is 2-(2,3-Dichloro-4-(thiophene-2-carbonyl)phenoxy)acetic acid, and the molecular formula is C13H8Cl2O4S, Application In Synthesis of 40180-04-9.
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