Title
A quasi-flexible automatic docking processing for studying stereoselective recognition mechanisms. Part I. Protocol validation.
Abstract
The main purpose of this work is the development and validation of a general scheme based on a systematic and automatic "quasi-flexible" docking approach for studying stereoselective recognition mechanisms. To achieve our goals we explore the conformational and configurational space for small- or medium-size flexible molecules in a systematic way, seeking a method that is both reasonably accurate and relatively fast from the computational point of view. in particular, we have developed a general computational protocol for the global molecular interaction evaluation ("Glob-MollnE") to efficiently explore the orientational and conformational space of flexible selectors and selectands used in modern chiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); the enantioselective binding of the selector (S)-N-(3,5-dinitrobenzoyl)-leucine-n-propylamide (S)-1 towards the selectand N-(2-naphthyl)-alanine methyl ester 2 has been studied; the global minimum obtained for the homochiral associate [S(1)/S(2)] (Pop. >99%) is very close (RMS similar or equal to 0.20) to the crystallographically determined structure. (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1002/(SICI)1096-987X(200005)21:7<515::AID-JCC2>3.0.CO;2-5
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
quasi-flexible automatic docking,molecular recognition,stereoselective discrimination,enantioselective "high-performance liquid,chromatography" (HPLC),systematic configurational search
Chirality (chemistry),Molecular recognition,Molecule,Docking (dog),Computational chemistry,Chemistry,Enantioselective synthesis,Stereoselectivity
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
7
0192-8651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.82
3
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Alcaro1315.73
F. Gasparrini230.82
O. Incani351.55
S. Mecucci430.82
D. Misiti530.82
Marco Pierini653.61
Claudio Villani731.16