Investigation of Anticancer Properties of 2-benzylidene-1-indanone and Its Derivatives by DFT and Molecular Docking

Year 2024, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 101 - 109, 21.05.2024

Ceylan Alkaya Yıldız , Sultan Erkan

https://doi.org/10.33435/tcandtc.1399916

Abstract

In this study, 2-benzylidene-1-indanone and its derivatives, which is a chalcone compound and contains indanone in its structure, were examined. Quantum chemical parameters for these compounds were calculated with the B3LYP method and the 6-31G(d) basis set and evaluated for their biological activity. The effect of different functional groups (F, Cl, Br, CF3, CH3 and OCH3) attached to the 2-benzylidene-1-indanone compound on biological activity was investigated. Some quantum chemical parameters such as highest energy filled molecule orbital energy (EHOMO), lowest non-bonding empty molecule orbital energy (ELUMO), energy gap (ΔE), hardness (η), softness (σ), global molecular electrophilicity (ω) index, global molecular nucleophilicity (ɛ) index, electron-accepting (ω+) and electron-donating (ω-) electrophilicity index were calculated for the biological activities of the compounds. Frontier molecular orbitals and molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) maps were interpreted. The biological activities of 2-benzylidine-1-indanone and some of its derivatives bearing the 1-indanone skeleton were evaluated by performing molecular docking studies with the target protein PDB ID = 1HJD corresponding to the melanoma cell line. The activity ranking obtained with quantum chemical parameters was found to be compatible with the binding energies obtained from docking results.

Keywords

Indanone, Quantum chemical parameters, Molecular docking

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