Combined 3D-{QSAR} and Molecular Docking Analysis of Thienopyrimidine Derivatives as Staphylococcus aureus Inhibitors.

The discovery of antibacterials is considered one of the greatest medical achievements of all time. In this work, a combination of three computational analyzes: 3D-QSAR, molecular docking and ADME evaluation were applied in thienopyrimidine derivatives intended toward gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. The validity of 3D-QSAR model was tested with a set of data which is divided into a training and a test set. The two models constructed (CoMFA and CoMSIA) show good statistical reliability (q2 = 0.758; r2 = 0.96; r2pred = 0.783) and (q2 = 0.744; r2 = 0.97; r2pred = 0.625) respectively. In addition, docking methods were applied to understand the structural features responsible for the affinity of the ligands in the binding of S. aureus DNA gyrase. Drug likeness and ADME analysis applied in this series of new proposed compounds, have shown that the five lead molecules would have the potential to be effective drugs and could be used as a starting point for designing compounds against Staphylococcus aureus.

Vibronic coupling to simulate the phosphorescence spectra of Ir(III)-based OLED systems: TD-DFT results meet experimental data.

The electronic and optical properties of six iridium imidazolylidene complexes (1a, 1b, 2, 2b, 3, 3b) that are strong candidates for use in OLED systems were investigated theoretically. Computations using DFT and TD-DFT methods were performed to explain the observed optical properties of these complexes. Observed absorption bands were assigned and the lowest triplet excited states were computed. Whereas complexes 1a and 1b are nonemissive in solution, the simulated phosphorescence spectra of complexes 2, 2b, 3, and 3b were in good agreement with the observed spectra when the vibrational contributions to the electronic transitions were taken into account. The use of vibronic coupling allowed us to reproduce and explain the structured phosphorescence spectra of complexes 2 and 2b, as well as the absence of such structure from the spectra of complexes 3 and 3b. Graphical Abstract Successful simulation of the phosphorescence spectra of Ir(III)-based OLED xsystems.