Issue June 2008

category image Volume 25
No. 6 (p 573-752)
June 2008
ISSN 0739-110

Accurate Aqueous Proton Dissociation Constants Calculations for Selected Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (p. 599-608)

Studies that allow computing values of aqueous proton dissociation constants (pKa), gas phase proton affinities, and the free energy of solvation have been performed for six members of angiotensin-I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor family (captopril, enalaprilat, imidaprilat, ramiprilat, perindoprilat, and spiraprilat). Density functional theory (DFT) calculations using PBE1PBE functional on optimized molecular geometries have been carried out to investigate the thermodynamics of gas-phase protonation. The conductor-like polarizable continuum model (CPCM) solvation method at various levels of theory was applied to calculate the free energy of solvation for the ACE inhibitors and their respective anions. The CPCM solvation calculations were performed on both gas-phase and solvent-phase optimized structures. The combination of gas-phase and solvation energies according to the thermodynamic cycle enabled us to compute accurate pKa values for the all studied molecules.

Martin Sramko1,*
Martin Smiesko2
Milan Remko1

1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Faculty of Pharmacy
Comenius University
Odbojarov 10
SK-832 32 Bratislava, Slovakia
2Institute of Molecular Pharmacy
Pharmazentrum
University of Basel
Klingelberstrasse 50
CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
*sramko@fpharm.uniba.sk

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