Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Medicinal Chemistry > Introduction > Flashcards

Introduction Flashcards

1
Q

What is medicinal chemistry?

A

A large field that encompasses many disciplines (synthetic organic chemistry, enzymology, biochemistry metabolism, etc.)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

What do medicinal chemists do? What do they produce?

A

Medicinal chemists discover new chemical entities with pharmacological effects and, by a process of chemical modification, produce lead compounds and from the lead compounds produce new, safe and effective drugs to treat disease

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What’s a chemical entity?

A

Any (likely organic) chemical

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What is a lead compound?

A

A chemical compound with the desired pharmacological effect that can be modified chemically to improve its potency, absorption, distribution, metabolic profile (or any aspect of the drug)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

How do you improve a drug?

A

By utilizing the knowledge of, or determining the Structure Activity Relationship (SAR), a medicinal chemist can turn lead compounds into safe and effective drugs

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Describe the quantitative SAR. Why is it important?

A

Generating a mathematical relationship between physicochemical properties of a series of compounds and their pharmacologic activity. In this case the “compounds” are modifications to the lead. This mathematical relationship can predict the most potent structure

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Describe the qualitative SAR.

A

The relationship between the structure and the pharmacological activity of the drug, i.e., how arrangement of functional groups on the drug molecule effect pharmacological activity (absorption, secretion, etc.)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

What is an important chemical property of drugs?

A

Electronegativity

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What is electronegativity? Why is it important?

A

Electronegativity is a measure of the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons (basically: what would the electrons do?)
Electronegative atoms can polarize a molecule resulting in a permanent dipole

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

How do functional groups affect electrons?

A

Electrons can move around (delocalize) depending on functional groups.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

What are the two ways that electrons move?

A

There are two ways electron density can move through a molecule: resonance and induction

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Define resonance

A

The movement of electron density through pi-bonds (i.e., though alliterating single and double bonds aka conjugated systems)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Define induction

A

The movement of electron density through sigma-bonds (i.e, through saturated carbons)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

How do functional groups affect the movement of electrons (through resonance and/or induction)?

A

A functional group may be electron donating (ED) or electron withdrawing (EW) depending on if ED or EW happens by resonance (pi-bond) or by induction (sigma-bonds). Therefore the same functional group may be ED or EW depending on if it happens through pi or sigma-bonds.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Besides the type of bonds, what else affects ED and EW?

A

ED and EW also depends on electronegativity, the presence of lone pair electrons, multiple bonds and the geometry of the molecule

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

In resonance, how does delocalization happen?

A

Delocalization happens through a series of pi-bones = conjugation. There’s a hydride structure, which has partial double bon character

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

In induction, how does delocalization occur?

A

Delocalization happens because of the distribution of electron density over the molecule through sigma-bonds

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Where do we find EW inductively but ED by resonance?

A

In electronegative atoms with a lone pair (-OH, -NH2)

Exceptions are halogens, which are EW but usually do not participate in ED

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Where do we find ED by induction?

A

Alkyl groups, the more branched, the more donating

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Where do we find EW only by induction?

A

Atoms with no lone pair of electrons but have partial positive charge or a charge of +1 (-CF3, -NH3+, halogens)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Where do we find EW inductively and by resonance?

A

Attached group with a double bond O or N or triple bond N (NO2, CN, SO2R, SO2NHR)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Where do we find EW or ED by resonance?

A

CH2=CHR

When attached to a benzene ring

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

What is acid/free acid?

A

Protonated acid (HA)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

What is conjugate base?

A

Deprotonated acid (A-)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

What is free base?

A

Deprotonated base (B)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

What is conjugate acid?

A

Protonated base (HB+)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

What is the ratio ionization based on?

A

The pKa and the pH of the solution

28
Q

To estimate the ratio of ionization, to significantly ionize HA to A-:

A

Need pH > pKa

29
Q

To estimate the ratio of ionization, to minimize the ionization of HA to A-:

A

Need pH

30
Q

To estimate the ratio of ionization, to significantly ionize B to HB+:

A

Need pH

31
Q

To estimate the ratio of ionization, to minimize the ionization of B to HB+:

A

Need pH > pKa

32
Q

What happens when pH = pKa

A

You get 50% ionization

33
Q

What happens when a drug contains both HA and B in the structure and the pKa of HB+ is greater than the pKa of HA?

A

Example: glycine, where the pKa of HA = 2.5 and pKa of HB+ = 9. In solid form or water at pH 7, it is a zwitterion (positively and negatively charged). In strong acid (pH 9), it is negatively charged

34
Q

What do we mean when we talk about the pKa of a base?

A

We will almost always be talking about a 1st, 2nd or 3rd amine, and specifically the pKa of its conjugate acid

35
Q

Carboxylic acids are weak acids. Explain

A

Both the inductive effects in the neutral form and the resonance effects in the ionized form explain why its COOH proton is acidic
Inductively withdraws electrons from H, thus making the H acidic.
A stable carboxylate anion is resulted after H+ departs. The negative charge is stabilized through resonance

36
Q

Why are acids and bases important in medicinal chemistry? Give some examples

A

Acids and bases are commonly used to ionize and make salts of drugs. Drugs are usually marked in a salt form because they are easier to make into a solid dosage form and they dissolve more readily in water. Unionized drugs are typically oils and are not easy with which to work.
Example: Warfarin sodium (warfarin + NaOH) is much more water soluble than warfarin
Example: Pseudoephedrine HCl

37
Q

What are the advantages to salts?

A

Drugs is water soluble and will dissolve in the gut
The free acid/base is often an oil and the conjugate base/acid is a crystalline form
Oils are notoriously impossible to tablet and are often hydroscopic and therefore very difficult to measure by weight
The conjugate acid/base can be weighed and tableted more easily
In many cases the conjugate acid/base as a solid crystalline form is more stable while the free base/acid as an oil is less stable

38
Q

What is a substituent?

A

An atom or group of atoms substituted in place of a hydrogen atom on the parent organic compound (very important).
Also known as moiety, side-chain, functional group, group, or branch.

39
Q

Describe alcanes

A 
Tetrahedral carbon centre
sp3 hydrbidization
Bond angle: 109.5º
C-C bond length: 1.5 A or 150 pm
Non polar
Always ED
Methane, Ethane, Propane
Substituent: Methyl, Ethyl
40
Q

Describe alkenes

A 
Planar geometry
sp2 hybridization
Bond angle: 120º
C=C bond length: 1.3 A or 130 pm
Non polar
ED/EW depending on substituents
Ethene, Propene, Butene
Substituents: Ethenyl, propenyl, butenyl
41
Q

Describe alkynes

A 
sp hydridization
Bone angle: 180º
Bond length: 1.2 A or 120 pm
Non polar
Mostly EW
Ethyne
Rare
42
Q

Describe alkanes and alkenes

A

They cannot form ionic, hydrogen or ion-dipole bonds with themselves or water, only van der Waals is possible
They cannot break and form bonds between and with water so they are not water soluble
The larger or more branched the alkyl, the less hydrophilic or more lipophilic the group becomes
Halogenated hydrocarbons (CH3F, CCl4) are generally less hydrophilic than the alkyl form

43
Q

Describe alcohols

A

They can form H-bonds with water and are polar, so they therefore increase solubility
They can be ED via resonance or EW via induction
They are H-bond donors and acceptors
sp3 hybridization
Tetrahedral geometry
There is a permanent dipole
Not very acidic

44
Q

What are phenols?

A

A special type of alcohol (alcohol + benzene)

Generally they are more acidic than aliphatic alcohols (pKa between 9-10) but it depends on other substituents

45
Q

Describe aromatic hydrocarbons

A

Names: phenyl, naphthyl
Hydrophobic
ED/EW depending on substituents

46
Q

Describe thiols and thiophenols

A

SH (sulfhydryl) group is only weakly acidic
SH is always ED
R-SH is more acid than R-OH
E.g., CH3-SH (methanethiol or methyl mercaptan)

47
Q

Describe Ethers and thioethers

A

Only weakly polar
O-R (alkoxy) is ED/EW
SR (thioalkoxy) is ED
E.g., Diethyl ether aka ethoxyethain, methoxybenzene, diethyl thioether

48
Q

Describe sulfoxides

A 
Always EW
S centre is tetrahedral
Lone pair of electrons
Chiral if R doesn't equal R'
Highly polar
Famous solvent: DMSO
49
Q

Describe sulfones

A

Always strongly EW
S centre is tetrahedral
Highly polar

50
Q

Describe aldehydes and ketones

A

Carbonyl (C=O) is polar, can form H-bonds with water (dipole-dipole interaction)
Always EW
They are in rapid equilibrium with alcohol to form hemiacetal and hemiketal

51
Q

Describe amines

A

An important functional group
Polar, can form H-bonds with water (dipole-dipole or ion-dipole)
Neutral forms of amines are ED (resonance) and EW (induction)
The N of amine is basic (loan pair)

52
Q

Describe carboxylic acid

A

A very important group
Polar, H-bonding, dipole-dipole, ion-diple
EW (neutral form), ED (anion form)
Acidic, readily deprotonated at physiological pH

53
Q

Describe esters

A

Important group
Polar, H-bonding with water
Always EW
Susceptible to hydrolysis (major route of metabolism, catalyzed by esterases; frequently incorporated to facility the absorption of carboxylic acid drugs - act as a pro-drug

54
Q

Describe amides

A

Important group
Polar, H-bonding with water, dipole-dipole
Planar
Always EW
The N is not basic (forms resonance structures)
VERY weakly acidic
Neutral at physiological pH

55
Q

What are nitriles and carbonates similar to?

A

Similar properties to esters

56
Q

What are carbamates similar to?

A

Properties in between esters and amides

57
Q

Describe ureas

A

Properties similar to amides

Very stable

58
Q

Describe amidines and guanidines

A

Highly polar, H-bonding, dipole-dipole, ion-dipole with water
In neutral form, amidine is EW but guanidine is weakly ED and weakly EW (due to electronegative nature of N)
In ionized form, EW
Multiple tautomeric forms are possible
More basic than amine. Usually fully protonated at pH 7.4 (depends on substitution)
sp2 hybridization

59
Q

Descibre Nitro

A

Although nitro group is charged, it is only slightly polar (electrically neutral because of + and - charges)
Highly EW
The negative charge on O is unable to accept a proton

60
Q

Describe sulfonic acids

A

Properties similar to carboxylic acids
Highly polar
EW
More acidic than carboxylic acids

61
Q

Describe sulfonamides

A

Properties similar to amides
Polar
EW
More acidic than amides

62
Q

What are the requirement for aromaticity?

A

Cyclic
Planar
Delocalized conjugated (every atom in the ring has p-orbitals that can form pi-bonds and every atom is sp2 hybridized)
Number of p-orbitals capable of forming pi-bonds satisfies this relationship: 4n+2 where n=1,2,3

63
Q

Describe the aromaticity charge distribution

A

There is potential for interaction between aromatic groups. This is not technically a dipole-dipole interaction because the aromatic ring has more than two poles.

64
Q

What is aromatic stacking interactions?

A

Aromatic stacking interactions are also called pi-stacking interactions. They are important for drug receptor interactions and for protein folding and DNA and RNA interactions

65
Q

What are the different types of aromatic stacking interactions?

A

T-shaped stacking interaction aka Edge to face interaction
Parallel displaced interaction
Sandwich interaction

Medicinal Chemistry (13 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions