Enhanced Antibacterial Activity of Vancomycin Loaded on Functionalized Polyketones.

Today, polymeric drug delivery systems (DDS) appear as an interesting solution against bacterial resistance, having great advantages such as low toxicity, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. In this work, two polyketones (PK) have been post-functionalized with sodium taurinate (PKT) or potassium sulfanilate (PKSK) and employed as carriers for Vancomycin against bacterial infections. Modified PKs were easily prepared by the Paal-Knorr reaction and loaded with Vancomycin at a variable pH.

Quantum chemical investigation on indole: vibrational force field and theoretical determination of its aqueous pK(a) value.

Indole and its derivatives are molecules which play important roles in different fields, from biology to pharmacology. Here we report a thorough investigation on the anharmonic force fields of indole as well as the ab initio determinations of its gas phase basicity and aqueous pK(a) value. For the geometry optimizations, the calculations have been performed using both density functional (DFT) and second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) levels of theory employing different basis sets.