Novel use of chemical shift in NMR as molecular descriptor: a first report on modeling carbonic anhydrase inhibitory activity and related parameters.

A novel use of NMR chemical shift of the SO(2)NH(2) protons (in dioxane as solvent) as a molecular descriptor is described for modeling the inhibition constant for benzene sulfonamides against the zinc enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.

QSAR studies on benzene sulfonamide carbonic anhydrase inhibitors: need of hydrophobic parameter for topological modeling of binding constants of sulfonamides to human CA-II.

The binding constants (logK) of benzene sulfonamides to human CA-II have been modeled using a large series of distance-based topological indices. The need or otherwise of the hydrophobic parameter (logP) for such topological modeling of logK has been examined critically. In both the cases excellent results have been obtained.

Novel estimation of lipophilicity using 13C NMR chemical shifts as molecular descriptor.

This paper describes the use of (13)C NMR chemical shift as molecular descriptor (molecular parameter) for modeling lipophilicity (logP). A set of 32 alcohols were chosen for this purpose. The regression analysis of the data showed that (13)C NMR chemical shifts of these alcohols can be used as a molecular descriptor (molecular property) for modeling the lipophilicity (logP).