Albin Jurić

STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY CORRELATION OF FLAVONE DERIVATIVES FOR INHIBITION OF CAMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE

Abstract published in Advance ACS Abstracts, November 1, 1995. 0095-233819511635-1034

Molecular topological index: An application in the QSAR study of toxicity of alcohols

09.00/0 0 ing various combinations of molecular descriptors. The structures of the flavone derivatives used in this study are shown in Figure 1. A total of 34 descriptors were generated for each flavone derivative. The descriptor pool contained topological and electronic descriptors. The topological descriptors that were calculated include valence connectivity indexes6 0f”’5xv, Wiener number Wand path numbers7 pO-plo, Balaban indexs J, Harary indexes9 HI -&, and molecular topological indexi0 MTI. The electronic descriptors include hardness indexes’ ’ (absolute hardness r, relative hardness qr), energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital E(HOMO), and energy of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital E(LUMO), topological resonance energy indices’ (topological resonance energy TRE and topological resonance energy per electron TRE(PE)), and the sum of the charges of the atoms located in the chromone moiety

On Use of the Variable Zagreb vM2 Index in QSPR: Boiling Points of Benzenoid Hydrocarbons

An application of the molecular topological index, adapted for heterosystems, in the QSAR study of toxicity of alkyl alcohols on fathead minnows (Pimephates promelas) is examined. The obtained QSAR model is comparable to models based on the Wiener number and the connectivity index.

A Structure-Property Study of the Solubility of Aliphatic Alcohols in Water

The variable Zagreb (v)M(2) index is introduced and applied to the structure-boiling point modeling of benzenoid hydrocarbons. The linear model obtained (the standard error of estimate for the fit model S(fit)=6.8 degrees C) is much better than the corresponding model based on the original Zagreb M2 index (S(fit)=16.4 degrees C). Surprisingly,the model based on the variable vertex-connectivity index (S(fit)=6.8 degrees C) is comparable to the model based on (v)M2 index. A comparative study with models based on the vertex-connectivity index, edge-connectivity index and several distance indices favours models based on the variable Zagreb (v)M2 index and variable vertex-connectivity index.However, the multivariate regression with two-, three- and four-descriptors gives improved models, the best being the model with four-descriptors (but (v)M2 index is not among them) with S(fit)=5 degrees C, though the four-descriptor model contaning (v)M2 index is only slightly inferior (S(fit)=5.3 degrees C).