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Molecular Properties Relevant to Bioavailability of Tioconazole  and its Derivatives

Monika K. Grudzień 1Agnieszka Gajewska 1Franciszek A. Pluciński 2Aleksander P. Mazurek 1,2

1. Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Drug Chemistry, Banacha 1, Warszawa 02-097, Poland
2. National Medicines Institute (NIL), Chełmska 30/34, Warszawa 00-725, Poland

Abstract

            The molecular properties of the active substance have an impact on their pharmacokinetics and bioavailability. To simplify prove of bioequivalence of generics with reference to medicinal products various exemption procedures and rules were implemented. One of them is substitution of in vivo bioequivalence study by in vitro dissolution similarity determination. This makes a base for so called Biophamaceutical Classification System (BCS). The main two properties are considered: solubility and permeability. Experimental determination of those parameters is cumbersome and frequently impossible. Therefore theoretically derived determinants are promising tool for fast chemical substance classification within BCS. The water solubility determination can be efficiently made based on free enthalpy of solvation (∆G), while permeability can be described by the hydrophobic properties in a first approximation. The hydrophobic properties can be established based on solvation energy in solvent with different polarity. In this study we focused on the important from therapeutic view-point antimycotic medicinal products containing the imidazole ring. Here we calculated ∆G of solvation by water and chloroform molecules at the Hartree-Fock 6-31G* level using SCI-PCM model. For tioconazole and –OH, -CH2OH and ring derivatives and hydrochloride the values of ∆G of solvation  by water molecules appeared discriminative. The values are as follows: tioconazole ∆G = -0.51 kcal/mol, -OH in 4 position of imidazole ring ∆G = -3.25 kcal/mol, -CH2OH in 4 position of imidazole ring ∆G = -1.58 kcal/mol, hydrochloride  ∆G = -44.17 kcal/mol. In chloroform, solvent in dielectric constants similar to an octanol the respective values of ∆G are: -5.25 kcal/mol, -2.72 kcal/mol, -3.32 kcal/mol and  -27.17 kcal/mol. Analyzed structural changes give hints to synthesis of compounds with better pharmacokinetic properties of antimycotic agents, the OH substituent appeared to be promising way of parent structure modification.  

 

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Submitted: 2008-03-13 22:25
Revised:   2009-06-07 00:48