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The aim of this study was develop in silico studies with a data set of 1 H -imidazol-2-yl-pyrimidine-4,6-diamines derivatives described as antimalarial agents with the intention of obtain data and tools useful in the development of new drugs of this class. A QSAR model was developed using topological, geometrical and electronic molecular descriptors with aid of the OPS/PLS approach. The data set was also used for pharmacophoric modeling, that was used in the ZINC database for found compounds that show good fit with the model. Due to the similarity between the four selected hits in the virtual screening with the data set, the obtained equation was used for predict the potential antimalarial activity. All hits were within the applicablity domain of the QSAR model, and showed adquates Monge's leadlikeness score and predicted safety profiles.

The ellipticines constitute a broad class of molecules with antitumor activity. In the present work we analyzed the structure and properties of a series of ellipticine derivatives in the gas phase and in solution using quantum mechanical and Monte Carlo methods. The results showed a good correlation between the solvation energies in water obtained with the continuum model and the Monte Carlo simulation. Molecular descriptors were considered in the development of QSAR models using the DNA association constant (log Kapp) as biological data. The results showed that the DNA binding is dominated by electronic parameters, with small contributions from the molecular volume and area.

A model based on chemical structure was developed for the accurate prediction of octanol/water partition coefficient (K OW) of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are molecules of environmental interest. Partial least squares (PLS) was used to build the regression model. Topological indices were used as molecular descriptors. Variable selection was performed by Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA). In the modeling process, the experimental K OW measured for 30 PCBs by thin-layer chromatography - retention time (TLC-RT) has been used. The developed model (Q² = 0,990 and r² = 0,994) was used to estimate the log K OW values for the 179 PCB congeners whose K OW data have not yet been measured by TLC-RT method. The results showed that topological indices can be very useful to predict the K OW.