Prediction of aqueous solubility of organic compounds using a quantitative structure-property relationship.
A quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) was developed for predicting the aqueous solubility of drug-like compounds from their chemical structures. A set of 321 structurally diverse drugs or related compounds, with their intrinsic aqueous solubility collected from literature, was used in this analysis. The data were divided into a training set (n = 267) for building the model and a randomly chosen testing set (n = 54) for assessing the predictive ability of the model. A series of molecular descriptors was calculated directly from chemical structures and a set of eight descriptors, including dipole moment, surface area, volume, molecular weight, number of rotatable bonds/total bonds, number of hydrogen-bond acceptors, number of hydrogen-bond donors and density, was chosen for the final model. The eight-descriptor model generated by multiple linear regression was further optimized by a genetic algorithm guided selection method. The model has a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.95 and a root-mean-square (rms) error of 0.56 log unit. It predicts the solubility of testing set compounds with a reasonable degree of accuracy (r = 0.84 and rms = 0.86 log unit). The present model can serve as a tool for medicinal chemists to guide their early synthetic efforts in arriving at appropriate analogs.
Discovery Pharmaceutics, L12-09, Preclinical Candidate Optimization, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08543, USA.
Xue-Qing
XQ
Chen
Sung Jin
SJ
Cho
Yi
Y
Li
Srini
S
Venkatesh
D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012995:Solubility; D012997:Solvents; D014867:Water
D009930:Organic Chemicals; D012997:Solvents; D014867:Water