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Design, synthesis, antibacterial, and QSAR studies of myristic acid derivatives
Narasimhan, Balasubramanian,Mourya, Vishnukant,Dhake, Avinash
, p. 3023 - 3029 (2008/09/20)
A series of esters and amides of myristic acid was synthesized and tested in vitro for antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. All the compounds showed activity comparable to that of the standard drug, ciprofloxacin. The structural characteristics governing antibacterial activity of myristic acid derivatives was studied using QSAR methodology. The results showed that the antibacterial activity could be modeled using the topological descriptor, valence molecular connectivity index. The predictive ability of the models was cross-validated by construction of a test set. The low residual activity and high cross-validated r2 values ( rcv2 ) observed indicated the predictive ability of the developed QSAR models.
Nematocidal activity of long alkyl chain amides, amines and their derivatives on dog roundworm larvae
Kiuchi,Nishizawa,Kawanishi,Kinoshita,Ohsima,Uchitani,Sekino,Ishida,Kondo,Tsuda
, p. 3234 - 3244 (2007/10/02)
The nematocidal activity of amides and amines having a long alkyl chain against the second-stage larva of dog roundworm, Toxocara canis, was examined. Long chain acyl amides with smaller substituents on the nitrogen showed stronger activity and the activity of cyclic amine amides was stronger than that of acyclic ones. In a series of homologous amides, the activity was dependent on the alkyl chain length: it reached a maximum at an optimal chain length and decreased in both shorter and longer homologues. The relationship between the activity and hydrophobicity of the homologues was analysed by the use of the bilinear model. The hydrophobicity of a compound, which gives a maximal activity, was similar for all neutral amides, but amides which have an additional amine group in the molecule had different values. Tertiary amines and their salts having a long alkyl chain also showed nematocidal activities comparable to those of the corresponding amides. The salts killed the larva at concentrations lower than their critical micell concentration, suggesting that they behave as a single molecule for the nematocidal action.
