The Development of New Molecules Having Antiemetic Activity Using Molecular Modeling
- 1 Sétif-1-University, Algeria
- 2 Centre de Recherche en Biotechnologie (CRBt), Algeria
Abstract
The solubility of a drug in water or in the blood represents the most desired parameter in medicine. Our aim is to obtain molecules with properties more effective than those of metoclopramide. In this work, two molecules with high solubility are constructed. Metoclopramide (a benzamide derivative) is a dopamine receptor antagonist used as an antiemetic drug. Its solubility in water is 200 mg/L at 25°C. In this work, we will develop two other molecules that have the same therapeutic activity of metoclopramide with a higher solubility in water, therefore in the blood, without affecting the other properties. The two molecules developed by molecular modeling with a chemical modification of the OH group of metoclopramide have a high solubility: approximately 3 times and 8 times that of metoclopramide. For the other physicochemical properties, there is a great similarity between the molecules. Thus, the two proposed molecules will have antiemetic activity, the second molecule will be more favorable because of its higher solubility and the number of HBA and HBD.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajbsp.2019.21.28
Copyright: © 2019 Khalil Errahmane Kanouni and Yacine Benguerba. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Solubility
- Drug
- Metoclopramide
- Antiemetic
- Molecular Modeling