No / A linear free-energy relationship (LFER) equation that is able to provide a valid prediction of the skin permeability coefficients (log Kp) of neutral molecules, ions and ionic species has recently been constructed and optimized. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of predicting the skin-permeating components (SPCs) of externally applied herbs using the LFER equation, with Evodiae fructus (EF) taken as a model herb. The log Kp values of the reported chemical components of EF at pH 4.0 were calculated using the LFER equation and their structural descriptors. The results showed that the essential oils, quinolone, acridone and indole alkaloids of EF are more permeable when compared to other main components, such as phenylpropanoids, furoquinoline alkaloids, limonoids and flavonoids. The SPCs of EF were further collected via ex vivo skin permeation experiments, and analyzed by liquid chromatography-high resolution tandem mass spectrometry. A total of 80 SPCs were detected, and part of them were tentatively identified based on their empirical molecular formulae and MS/MS spectra. The SPCs are made up of 58 alkaloids, including 23 or more quinolone alkaloids, 14 or more indole alkaloids and 1 acridone alkaloid, and 22 non-alkaloids, including 7 or more essential oils and 1 flavonoid, which is in good agreement with the prediction by the LFER equation. It is suggested that a log Kp of −7.0 may be considered as a borderline, above which are potential SPCs and below which are non-SPCs. Very interestingly, the primary SPCs give a good explanation to the antihypertensive action of externally applied EF. To sum up, the LFER equation can be used to predict the SPCs of externally applied herbs, and thus to narrow the range of their potential effective components and speed up the pharmacological study. / This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81703939 and 81503221), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2017M620403), the Project of Industry, Education and Research Funds of Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources (Grant No. FJMBIO1608), the Science and Technology Planning Project of Fujian Province (Grant No. 2017Y4015), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2014A030310365), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (Grant No. 2014CFC1045) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 20720150069), as well as the Clinical Medical Research Program of Wuhan Health and Family Planning Commission (Grant No. WX15A02).

No / The aim of the present work is to evaluate the similarity between PDMS membranes and human skin in vitro in permeation study by linear free energy relationship (LFER) analyses. The values of the permeability coefficient log Kp (cm/s) under reliable experimental conditions were collected from the literature for a set of 94 compounds including both neutral and ionic species, which cover a broad range of structural diversity. The values of log Kp (cm/s) have been correlated with Abraham descriptors to yield an equation with R2 = 0.952 and SD = 0.38 log units. The established LFER model for log Kp (cm/s) across PDMS membranes showed no close analogy with that through human skin in vitro. A further critical analysis of the coefficients of the LFER models confirmed that the PDMS permeation system is a very poor model for human skin permeation.

Yes / Literature data on solubilities of adamantane in organic solvents have been used to obtain properties, or descriptors, of adamantane. There is much less data on substituted adamantanes but we have been able to obtain descriptors for some 40 substituted adamantanes. These descriptors can then be used to estimate a wide range of physicochemical, environmental and other properties of the adamantanes. For the first time, the water-solvent partition coefficient and the gas-solvent partition coefficient into a large range of solvents, can be estimated, the latter being equivalent to Henry's Law constants. A variety of other important properties can also be estimated. These include vapor pressures, enthalpies of vaporization and sublimation, partitions from air and from blood into biological tissues, and skin permeability from water. The descriptors themselves are not exceptional. Adamantane itself has a rather low dipolarity, zero hydrogen bond acidity and a very low hydrogen bond basicity, in common with other multicyclic aliphatic compounds. These lead to adamantane being a very hydrophobic compound, as is evident from our estimated water-octanol partition coefficient.

Yes / We have used literature values for the solubility of vitamin K3 in organic solvents to obtain Abraham descriptorsfor vitamin K3. Although these descriptors themselves are not exceptional in any way, when combined withequations that we have already set out, they lead to the prediction of important properties of vitamin K3.These include the vapor pressure and heat of sublimation (necessary for the analysis of data on the concentrationof vitamin K3 in ambient air), and the partitions air-water, air-blood, air-lung, air-fat, air-skin, water-lipid, water-membrane, water-skin, as well as permeation from water through skin. Values of the partitions into biologicalphases are all quite large by comparison to those for organic compounds in general.

Computational methods such as linear free energy relationships (LFERs) offer a useful high-throughput solution to quickly evaluate drug developability, e.g. membrane permeability, organic solvent/water partition coefficients, and solubility. LFERs typically assume the contribution of structural components/functional groups to the overall properties of a given molecule to be constant and independent. This dissertation describes a series of studies in which linear free energy relationships were developed to predict solvation of small organic molecules in lipid formulations, specifically, triglyceride containing solvents and phospholipid-based liposomes. The formation of intermolecular HBs in triglyceride solvents (homogenous with H-bond accepting ability) and intramolecular HBs within the bilayer barrier domain (hydrocarbon-like) proved to be the major factors to consider in developing LFERs to account for the increased oil/water partition coefficients and enhanced bilayer permeability of small organic molecules. The triglyceride solvent/water partition coefficients of a series of model compounds varying in polarity and H-bond donating/accepting capability were used to establish a correlation between the solvent descriptors and the ester concentration in these solvents using the Abraham LFER approach. The LFER analyses showed that the descriptors representing the polarizability and H-bond basicity of the solvents vary systematically with the ester concentration. A fragment-based LFER to predict membrane permeability or 1,9- decadiene/water partition coefficients of small organic molecules including small peptides was systematically constructed using a total of 47 compounds. Significant nonadditivity was observed in peptides in that the contribution of the peptide backbone amide to the apparent transfer free energy from water into the bilayer barrier domain is considerably smaller than that of a “well-isolated” amide and greatly affected by adjacent polar substituents on the C-termini. In order to explain the phenomenon of nonadditivity, the formation of intramolecular HBs and inductive effects of neighboring polar groups on backbone amide, were investigated using FTIR and MD simulations. Both spectroscopic and computational results provided supportive evidence for the hypothesis that the formation of intramolecular HBs in peptides is the main reason for the observed nonadditivity of Δ(ΔG°)-CONH-. The MD simulation results showed that the inductive effect of neighboring groups is not as important as the effect of intramolecular HBs.

Entre as mais importantes propriedades de soluções aquosas micelares está a capacidade de incorporar substâncias orgânicas com diferentes polaridades e graus de hidrofobicidade. Como demonstrado por Quina et aI. (J Phys. Chem., 1995, 99, 11708-11714), um dos métodos mais promissores para a obtenção de correlações entre e a eficiência de solubilização em micelas e as estruturas do soluto e do detergente é através do uso de relações lineares de energia livre (LSERs). No presente trabalho, investigou-se a incorporação de uma série de solutos neutros em micelas dos detergentes zwitteriônicos dimetil-hexadecilamônio-propano sulfonato (CDAPS; 31 solutos) e o N-óxido de dimetil-dodecilamina (DDAO; 33 solutos), bem como em micelas catiônicas da forma protonada de DDAO (DDAOH+; 33 solutos). As constantes de incorporação dos solutos foram determinadas experimentalmente por meio de técnicas fotofísicas, métodos de solubilização e cromatografia líquida e gasosa. A análise dos resultados foi efetuada através de técnicas de regressão múltipla, obtendo-se as seguintes LSERs: CDAPS: Log Ks = - 0,55 + 0,99 R2 - 0,82 π2 + 0,36 Σα2 - 0,99 Σβ2 + 2,73 Vx DDAOH+: Log Ks = - 0,68 + 1,30 R2 - 0,78 π2 + 0,67 Σα2 - 1,45 Σβ2 + 2,29 Vx DDAO: Log Ks = - 0,46 + 0,89 R2 - 0,61 π2 + 0,82 Σα2 - 1,66 Σβ2 + 2,59 Vx onde Σα2 e Σβ2 representam a \"acidez\" e a \"basicidade\" do soluto, com relação à formação de pontes de hidrogênio, R2 corresponde à refração molar em excesso, π2 representa a dipolaridade e Vx é o volume molar do soluto. As LSERs obtidas indicam que os detergentes zwitteriônicos formam sistemas distintos dos demais estudados até o momento. No entanto, os sistemas DDAO e DDAOH+ apresentam LSERs muito semelhantes entre sí, sugerindo que a incorporação dos solutos não é afetada por uma mudança da estrutura (carga) da cabeça do detergente. / One of the most important properties of aqueous micellar solutions is their capacity to incorporate organic solutes with different degrees of polarity and hydrophobicity. As demonstrated by Quina et aI. (J. Phys. Chem., 1995, 99, 1170811714), one of the most promissing methods for obtaining correlations between solubilization eficiency and the solute and surfactant structure is via the use of linear solvation energy relationships (LSERs). The present work investigates the incorporation of a series of neutral solutes in micelles of the zwitterionic detergents hexadecyldimethylammonium propanesulfonate (CDAPS; 31 solutes) and the N-oxide of dodecyldimethylamine (DDAO; 33 solutes), as well as in the cationic micelles of the protonated form of DDAO (DDAOH+; 33 solutes). The incorporation constants were determined experimentally by photophysical techniques, from solubility measurements and by liquid and gas chromatographic methods. Analysis of the results by multiple regression techniques led to the following LSERs: CDAPS: Log Ks = - 0,55 + 0,99 R2 - 0,82 π2 + 0,36 Σα2 - 0,99 Σβ2 + 2,73 Vx DDAOH+: Log Ks = - 0,68 + 1,30 R2 - 0,78 π2 + 0,67 Σα2 - 1,45 Σβ2 + 2,29 Vx DDAO: Log Ks = - 0,46 + 0,89 R2 - 0,61 π2 + 0,82 Σα2 - 1,66 Σβ2 + 2,59 Vx where Σα2 and Σβ2 are the hydrogen bond acidity and basicity of the solute, R2 is the excess molar refraction, π2 is the dipolarity and Vx corresponds to the molar volume of the solute. The LSERs obtained demonstrate that zwitterionic surfactants are distinct from the other systems investigated previously. However, the similarity of the LSERs of DDAO and DDAOH+ suggests that incorporation of solutes is not affected by changes in the structure (charge) ofthe polar headgroup.

<p>This thesis describes the use of kinetic isotope effects, linear free energy relationships and stereochamical studies to distinguish between different mechanistic alternatives and to obtain information about transition state structure.</p><p>In the first part fluorine and deuterium kinetic isotope effects were determined for the base promoted HF elimination from 4-fluoro-4-(4’-nitrophenyl)butane-2-on. During this work a new method for the determination of fluorine kinetic isotope effects was developed. The results from the study demonstrates that the reaction proceeds via an E1cB_ip mechanism.</p><p>In the second part the transition state structure for the S_N2 reaction between ethyl chloride and cyanide ion in DMSO was studied. Kinetic isotope effects for six different positions in the reacting system, both in cyanide and ethyl chloride, were determined. The experimental isotope effects were then compared with the theoretically predicted isotope effects. </p><p>The third part describes the use of Hammett type free-energy relationships and stereochemical evidence to study the mechanism of the copper catalysed alkene aziridination. The results from the study support a model that involves the simultaneous presence of two different copper nitrene intermediates. One which reacts non-stereospecifically via a radical intermediate and one which reacts stereospecifically via a concerted mechanism.</p><p>In the fourth part a mechanistic study of the Ru(aminoalcohol) catalysed transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone in isopropanol is described. Kinetic isotope effects were determined for both proton and hydride transfer. The observation of significant primary deuterium kinetic isotope effects for both proton and hydride transfer support a mechanism where the proton and hydride are transferred simultaneously in a concerted mechanism.</p>

This thesis describes the use of kinetic isotope effects, linear free energy relationships and stereochamical studies to distinguish between different mechanistic alternatives and to obtain information about transition state structure. In the first part fluorine and deuterium kinetic isotope effects were determined for the base promoted HF elimination from 4-fluoro-4-(4’-nitrophenyl)butane-2-on. During this work a new method for the determination of fluorine kinetic isotope effects was developed. The results from the study demonstrates that the reaction proceeds via an E1cBip mechanism. In the second part the transition state structure for the SN2 reaction between ethyl chloride and cyanide ion in DMSO was studied. Kinetic isotope effects for six different positions in the reacting system, both in cyanide and ethyl chloride, were determined. The experimental isotope effects were then compared with the theoretically predicted isotope effects. The third part describes the use of Hammett type free-energy relationships and stereochemical evidence to study the mechanism of the copper catalysed alkene aziridination. The results from the study support a model that involves the simultaneous presence of two different copper nitrene intermediates. One which reacts non-stereospecifically via a radical intermediate and one which reacts stereospecifically via a concerted mechanism. In the fourth part a mechanistic study of the Ru(aminoalcohol) catalysed transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone in isopropanol is described. Kinetic isotope effects were determined for both proton and hydride transfer. The observation of significant primary deuterium kinetic isotope effects for both proton and hydride transfer support a mechanism where the proton and hydride are transferred simultaneously in a concerted mechanism.

Entre as mais importantes propriedades de soluções aquosas micelares está a capacidade de incorporar substâncias orgânicas com diferentes polaridades e graus de hidrofobicidade. Como demonstrado por Quina et aI. (J Phys. Chem., 1995, 99, 11708-11714), um dos métodos mais promissores para a obtenção de correlações entre e a eficiência de solubilização em micelas e as estruturas do soluto e do detergente é através do uso de relações lineares de energia livre (LSERs). No presente trabalho, investigou-se a incorporação de uma série de solutos neutros em micelas dos detergentes zwitteriônicos dimetil-hexadecilamônio-propano sulfonato (CDAPS; 31 solutos) e o N-óxido de dimetil-dodecilamina (DDAO; 33 solutos), bem como em micelas catiônicas da forma protonada de DDAO (DDAOH+; 33 solutos). As constantes de incorporação dos solutos foram determinadas experimentalmente por meio de técnicas fotofísicas, métodos de solubilização e cromatografia líquida e gasosa. A análise dos resultados foi efetuada através de técnicas de regressão múltipla, obtendo-se as seguintes LSERs: CDAPS: Log Ks = - 0,55 + 0,99 R2 - 0,82 &#960;2 + 0,36 &#931;&#945;2 - 0,99 &#931;&#946;2 + 2,73 Vx DDAOH+: Log Ks = - 0,68 + 1,30 R2 - 0,78 &#960;2 + 0,67 &#931;&#945;2 - 1,45 &#931;&#946;2 + 2,29 Vx DDAO: Log Ks = - 0,46 + 0,89 R2 - 0,61 &#960;2 + 0,82 &#931;&#945;2 - 1,66 &#931;&#946;2 + 2,59 Vx onde &#931;&#945;2 e &#931;&#946;2 representam a \"acidez\" e a \"basicidade\" do soluto, com relação à formação de pontes de hidrogênio, R2 corresponde à refração molar em excesso, &#960;2 representa a dipolaridade e Vx é o volume molar do soluto. As LSERs obtidas indicam que os detergentes zwitteriônicos formam sistemas distintos dos demais estudados até o momento. No entanto, os sistemas DDAO e DDAOH+ apresentam LSERs muito semelhantes entre sí, sugerindo que a incorporação dos solutos não é afetada por uma mudança da estrutura (carga) da cabeça do detergente. / One of the most important properties of aqueous micellar solutions is their capacity to incorporate organic solutes with different degrees of polarity and hydrophobicity. As demonstrated by Quina et aI. (J. Phys. Chem., 1995, 99, 1170811714), one of the most promissing methods for obtaining correlations between solubilization eficiency and the solute and surfactant structure is via the use of linear solvation energy relationships (LSERs). The present work investigates the incorporation of a series of neutral solutes in micelles of the zwitterionic detergents hexadecyldimethylammonium propanesulfonate (CDAPS; 31 solutes) and the N-oxide of dodecyldimethylamine (DDAO; 33 solutes), as well as in the cationic micelles of the protonated form of DDAO (DDAOH+; 33 solutes). The incorporation constants were determined experimentally by photophysical techniques, from solubility measurements and by liquid and gas chromatographic methods. Analysis of the results by multiple regression techniques led to the following LSERs: CDAPS: Log Ks = - 0,55 + 0,99 R2 - 0,82 &#960;2 + 0,36 &#931;&#945;2 - 0,99 &#931;&#946;2 + 2,73 Vx DDAOH+: Log Ks = - 0,68 + 1,30 R2 - 0,78 &#960;2 + 0,67 &#931;&#945;2 - 1,45 &#931;&#946;2 + 2,29 Vx DDAO: Log Ks = - 0,46 + 0,89 R2 - 0,61 &#960;2 + 0,82 &#931;&#945;2 - 1,66 &#931;&#946;2 + 2,59 Vx where &#931;&#945;2 and &#931;&#946;2 are the hydrogen bond acidity and basicity of the solute, R2 is the excess molar refraction, &#960;2 is the dipolarity and Vx corresponds to the molar volume of the solute. The LSERs obtained demonstrate that zwitterionic surfactants are distinct from the other systems investigated previously. However, the similarity of the LSERs of DDAO and DDAOH+ suggests that incorporation of solutes is not affected by changes in the structure (charge) ofthe polar headgroup.

Experimental mole fraction solubilities of several carboxylic acids (2-methoxybenzoic acid, 4-methoxybenzoic acid, 4-nitrobenzoic acid, 4-chloro-3-nitrobenzoic acid, 2-chloro-5-nitrobenzoic acid,2-methylbenzoic acid and ibuprofen) and 9-fluorenone, thianthrene and xanthene were measured in a wide range of solvents of varying polarity and hydrogen-bonding characteristics. Results of these measurements were used to calculate gas-to-organic solvent and water-to-organic solvent solubility ratios, which were then substituted into known Abraham process partitioning correlations. The molecular solute descriptors that were obtained as the result of these computations described the measured solubility data to within an average absolute deviation of 0.2 log units. The calculated solute descriptors also enable one to estimate many chemically, biologically and pharmaceutically important properties for the ten solutes studied using published mathematical correlations.