Ting-Fong Chin

Structural Effects on the Binding of Amine Drugs with the Diphenylmethyl Functionality to Cyclodextrins. I. A Microcalorimetric Study

Solution calorimetry has been employed to evaluate the stability constants and enthalpy changes associated with complex formation between α-, β, or -γ-cyclodextrin (CD) and a group of amine compounds having the diphenylmethyl functionality. Data from thermal titrations of the compounds were analyzed using nonlinear least squares. The standard free energy decrease accompanying the formation of inclusion complexes is generally due to a negative standard enthalpy change (ΔH°). The standard entropy change (ΔS°) was negative, except in the case of complexes formed with γ-CD. Of the 13 compounds studied, only 2 formed complexes with 1:2 (compound: (β-CD) stoichiometry, terfenadine · HC1 and cinnarizine · 2HC1. All the others formed 1:1 complexes. The structural effect on the stability constants, thermodynamics, and inclusion geometry was explored by relating the calorimetric results to the chemical structures of the guest molecules and the cavity sizes of the CD molecules. The results suggest that one of the phenyl groups of the diphenylmethyl functionality resides in the CD cavity and is in van der Waals contact with the inside wall of the CD cavity. In the case of α- and β-CDs, van der Waals interaction dominates in the stabilization. On the other hand, the interaction between these compounds and γ-CD is largely entropically driven. Adiphenine · HC1 forms a more stable complex with β-CD than proadifen · HC1, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl group on the rim of the CD ring can influence the strength of the binding interaction.

Structural Effects on the Binding of Amine Drugs with the Diphenylmethyl Functionality to Cyclodextrins. II. A Molecular Modeling Study

Molecular modeling has been used to study the complexation between α, β, or γ-cyclodextrin (CD) and a group of amine compounds having the diphenylmethyl functionality. The computer program SYBYL 5.3 and the Tripos force field (version 5.2) were used for all the calculations. Three-dimensional structures of 13 amine compounds were built individually from their atoms, and CDs were built based on the X-ray crystallographic coordinates. The diphenylmethyl derivative-CD complexes were constructed and optimized. Based on the calculated binding energies accompanying the inclusion process, the preferred method of approach of the compounds to the cavities of the CD molecules, and the structural effects on the binding between amine compounds and three CDs were explored. The calculated binding energies exhibited a good correlation with the stability constants obtained from solution calorimetric titrations. The present study shows that for similar ligand molecules, the molecular modeling technique should enable us to visualize the structure of the inclusion complexes and will also assist us in determining the ability of a potential drug molecule to form a stable complex with CDs.