The scarcity of efficient force fields to describe metal complexes may be a problem for new advances in medicinal chemistry. Thus, the development of force fields for these compounds can be valuable for the scientific community, especially when it comes to molecules that show interesting outputs regarding potential treating of diseases. Vanadium complexes, for instance, have shown promising results towards therapeutics of Alzheimer's Disease, most notably the bis(maltolato)oxovanadium (IV). Therefore, the mainly goal of this work is to develop and validate a new set of parameters for this vanadium complex from a minimum energy structure, obtained by DFT calculations, where great results of the new force field are found when confronted with experimental and quantum reference values. Moreover, the new force field showed to be quite effective to describe the molecule of under study whilst GAFF could not describe it effectively. In addition, a case study points out hydrogen bonds in the vanadium complex-PTP1B system.

Laboratory of Molecular Modelling Department of Chemistry Federal University of Lavras Lavras MG 37200 000 Brazil

Laboratory of Molecular Modelling Department of Chemistry Federal University of Lavras Lavras MG 37200 000 Brazil; Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science University of Hradec Králové Hradec Králové 500 03 Czech Republic

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