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Abstract
The article discusses the basic properties of fluorine atom that have made it so useful in drug development. It presents several examples of therapeutically useful drugs acting against many life-threatening diseases along with the mechanism as to how fluorine influences the drug activity. It has been pointed out that fluorine, due to its ability to increase the lipophilicity of the molecule, greatly affects the hydrophobic interaction between the drug molecule and the receptor. Because of its small size, it hardly produces any steric effect, rather due to electronic properties enters into electrostatic and hydrogen-bond interactions. Thus, it greatly affects the drug-receptor interaction and leads to increase the activity of the drugs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Satya Prakash Gupta
- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut 250005, India
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Hassan AE, Mohammed SM, Abou‐Elkhair RAI, Moustafa AH. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Glycosides and Acyclic Nucleosides Derived 2‐Oxonicotinonitriles. J Heterocycl Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/jhet.3563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Abdalla E. Hassan
- Applied Nucleic Acids Research CenterZagazig University Zagazig Egypt
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of ScienceZagazig University Zagazig Egypt
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of ScienceZagazig University Zagazig Egypt
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- Applied Nucleic Acids Research CenterZagazig University Zagazig Egypt
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of ScienceZagazig University Zagazig Egypt
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of ScienceZagazig University Zagazig Egypt
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Glycoside- and acyclic nucleoside-based 6-cyclohexyl-4-aryl-2-oxonicotinonitrile: synthesis and antimicrobial evaluation. JOURNAL OF THE IRANIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13738-019-01662-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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