Aprajita, Choudhary M. Design, synthesis and characterization of novel Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes as antivirus drug candidates against SARS-CoV-2 and HIV virus.
J Mol Struct 2022;
1263:133114. [PMID:
35465175 PMCID:
PMC9017811 DOI:
10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.133114]
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Abstract
This paper describes the structure-based design, synthesis and anti-virus effect of two new coordination complexes, a Ni(II) complex [Ni(L)2] (1) and a Cu(II) complex [Cu(L)2] (2) of (E)-N-phenyl-2-(thiophen-2-ylmethylene) hydrazine-1-carbothioamide(HL). The synthesized ligand was coordinated to metal ions through the bidentate-N, S donor atoms. The newly synthesized complexes were characterized by various spectroscopic and physiochemical methods, powdered XRD analysis and also X-ray crystallography study. Ni(II) complex [Ni(L)2](1) crystallize in orthorhombic crystal system with the space group Pbca with four molecules in the unit cell (a = 9.857(3) Å, b = 7.749(2) Å, c = 32.292(10) Å, α = 90°, β = 90°, γ = 90°, Z= 4) and reveals a distorted square planar geometry. A Hirshfeld surface and 2D fingerprint plot has been explored in the crystal structure of Ni(II) complex [Ni(L)2] (1). Energy framework computational analysia has also been explored. DFT based calculations have been performed on the Schiff base and its metal complexes to study the structure-property relationship. Furthermore, the molecular docking studies of the ligand and its metal complexes with SARS-CoV-2 virus (PDB ID: 7BZ5) and HIV-1 virus (PDB ID: 6MQA) are also investigated. The molecular docking calculations of the Ni(II) complex [Ni(L)2] (1) and a Cu(II) complex [Cu(L)2] (2) with SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed that the binding affinities at inhibition binding site of receptor protein are 9.7 kcal/mol and -9.3 kcal/mol, respectively. The molecular docking results showed that the binding affinities of Ni(II) complex (1) and Cu(II) complex (2) against SARS-CoV-2 virus were found comparatively higher than the HIV-1 virus (-8.5 kcal/mol and -8.2 kcal/mol, respectively). As potential drug candidates, Swiss-ADME predictions analyses are also studied and the results are compared with Chloroquine (CQ) and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs.
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