<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CC</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Computational Chemistry</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2332-5968</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/cc.2020.82003</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">CC-98649</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Chemistry&amp;Materials Science</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Activity Trends in Desoxy Anthrapyrazoles: The Influence of Molar Volume, Polarizability and Lipophilicity of N&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; C&lt;sub&gt;5&lt;/sub&gt; Side Chains on Their Anticancer Response
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Howida</surname><given-names>A. Hashim</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mohamed</surname><given-names>Osman M. A. El-Fakii</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ahmed</surname><given-names>Elsadig M. Saeed</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Basic Science, Faculty of Engineering Science, Omdurman Islamic University, Khartoum, Sudan</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Omdurman, Sudan</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Science, Faculty of Education, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>03</day><month>03</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>08</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>17</fpage><lpage>26</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>18,</day>	<month>December</month>	<year>2019</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>29,</day>	<month>February</month>	<year>2020</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>3,</day>	<month>March</month>	<year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  QSAR methodology was used to assess the effects of lipophilicity (logP), molar volume (MV) and polarizability (pl) of the side chains at N
  <sub>2</sub>
   and C
  <sub>5</sub>
   of 20 known desoxy anthrapyrazoles on their 
  in vitro
   anticancer activity expressed as the negative logarithm of the inhibitory concentration of 50% of L1210 murine leukemia cell line (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>). The main data set shows poor correlations between biological response and the descriptors with exception of MV of the C<sub>5</sub> side chain, where a moderate correlation was discerned ( <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="dit_db02c5a8-31d9-46fc-bff3-f460bc649da5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>
  =0.60, n
   
  = 18, two outliers).
   
  To extract more information regarding mechanism, the main data set was visually classified to three clusters depending on N<sub>2</sub> side
   chain. Cluster 1 containing six 5-substituted 2-[(2-hydroxyethyl) amino] ethyl anthrapyrazoles; cluster 2 contains ten 5-subsitutes 2-(diethyl amino) ethyl anthrapyrazoles and cluster 3 contains four anthrapyrazoles with miscellaneous substituents at both N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub>. For cluster 1, MV and pl of C<sub>5</sub> show high correlation with biological response (R<sup>2</sup>
  ’
  s
   
  = 0.75 and 0.72 respectively) while 
  l
  ogP gives a weak correlation (R<sup>2</sup>
   
  = 0.44). For cluster 2, the correlations of logP and pl of C<sub>2</sub>side chain are higher (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="dit_dad7b7e9-4f43-4fff-a672-fcf65c474d74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>
  =0.66
   and 0.62 respectively) compared with MV (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="dit_9d35bdca-80b0-4d30-93f4-8101640017db.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>
  =0.16
  ). Cluster 3 shows very poor correlation with all descriptors (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="dit_5cf07b15-21d0-4d49-9963-fba1c0cf7f1b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>
  ~0.3
  ). This indicates mechanistic distinction between the three clusters. Derived descriptors which represent the difference between the descriptors of N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub> side chains where used to explore the presence of interplay between these descriptors in affecting variability of the biological response.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Polarizability</kwd><kwd> Molar Volume</kwd><kwd> Lipophilicity</kwd><kwd> Anthrapyrazoles</kwd><kwd> Murine</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Anthrapyrazoles (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>) are totally synthetic anti cancer agents that exhibit a good efficacy in the treatment of breast cancer [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref2">2</xref>].</p><p>They relate to the anthracene-9, 10-dione based family of anticancer agents which include anthracyclines, e.g., Daunorubicin and doxorubicin [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref3">3</xref>]. Duanorubicin and doxorubicin, in addition to alkylaminoalkyl anthracene-9, 10-diones such as ametantrne and mitoxantrone [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref4">4</xref>].</p><p>Different mechanisms had been suggested to account for anticancer activity of anthracenediones-based anticancer chemotherapeutic agent like DNA intercalation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref5">5</xref>], Topoisomerase II inhibition [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref6">6</xref>], generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) among others. ROS generation is associated with all quinone containing anticancer agent and is an outcome of flavoenzyme-assisted redox cycling inside biological systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref7">7</xref>]. This redox cycling plays an important role in cytotoxicity of these compounds [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref8">8</xref>]. Regardless of the mechanism by which a given class of quinonoid drugs exerts its activity, substituents do indeed modify this activity either by enhancing, retarding or even banning it altogether. This is evident from the fact that from the multitude known anthrapyrazoles, only piroxantrone and losoxantrone has surfaced as potent clinical agents [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref9">9</xref>].</p><p>Similar argument could be assumed for anthracyclines and indeed for all other drugs. We reason that some kind of interplay may exist between substituents restricted in N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub> positions of the basic nucleus which lead eventually to the observed alteration of activity profile of individual compound relative the parent anthrapyrazole. Shwalter et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref1">1</xref>] found that basic side chains with two to three carbon spacers between the nitrogens, at positions N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub> of the anthrapyrazole ring structure, enhanced in vivo antitumor activity against P388 murine leukemia. DNA binding and intercalation were also influenced by the side chains at N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub>.</p><p>Quantitative structure activity relationships is a field of science inaugurated in 1964 by seminal two papers by Hansch and Fujita [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref10">10</xref>], on one hand, and Free and Wilson [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref11">11</xref>] in the other. Since then tremendous strides were made in</p><p>this field and indeed, in all in silico methods. Now QSAR methodology is a fully mature area of science which endeavor to correlate molecular descriptor or physicochemical parameters with biological response. The correlation is formulated in the form of a mathematical equation with statistical validation metrics. The formulated equation could be linear or non linear. Various algorithms had been devised to follow up relations between molecular and biological parameters. These include linear regression, partial least squire regression, neural networks among others [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref12">12</xref>]. The algorithm used in present study is non linear regression. The physicochemical descriptors used in the present study are two geometrical parameters polarizability (pol) and molar volume (MV), in addition to lipophilicity parameter (logP).</p><p>Polarizabilty is a measure of the ease with which the electrons of a molecule are distorted. It is the basis for evaluating the nonspecific attraction forces (London dispersion forces) that arise when two molecules approach each other. Each molecule distorts the electron cloud of the other and thereby induces an instantaneous dipole. The induced dipoles then attract each other [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref13">13</xref>]. Polarizability has been shown to play an important role in chemical-biological interactions. The first attempt to apply molecular refractivity in terms of the Polarizability was made by Pauling and Pressman [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref14">14</xref>]. Many empirical quantum mechanical methods of differing accuracy have been proposed for calculating molecular polarizabilities [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref15">15</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref20">20</xref>] and [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref21">21</xref>]. Molecular polarizability influences several other physical properties, including electronegativity [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref22">22</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref23">23</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref24">24</xref>] and [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref25">25</xref>], dipole moment [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref26">26</xref>] and ionization potential [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref27">27</xref>].</p><p>Molar volume (MV) is the geometrical-polarizability descriptor obtained from chemical structure according to the following formula:</p><p>MV = Mw / ρ</p><p>where Mw is the molecular weight and ρ is density. This parameter is closely related to the other two polarizability descriptors: molar refractivity and parachor but while the latters are additive, molar volume is strictly not. It is typically the volume enclosed within molecular surface area which is the area of outer surface of the volume from which water molecules are excluded [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref28">28</xref>].</p><p>logP is the calculated logarithm of octanol/water partition coefficient. It is the mostly used physicochemical parameters in QSAR studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref29">29</xref>]. It mimics the partitioning happening for xenobiotic between aqueous and lipid environments inside the body. The pharmokinetic stage in drug journey through various barriers inside the organism is monitored by this descriptor.</p><p>This paper is a continuation of our customary interest in mechanistic aspect of quionoid anticancer drugs [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref30">30</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref31">31</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Material and Methods</title><p>The biological data were taken from literature [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.98649-ref1">1</xref>]. Molar volumes (MV), polarizabilities (pl) and lipophilicities (logP) were calculated using ACD lab chemsketch 15 freeware, Advanced Chemistry Development Toronto Canada (http://www.acdlabs.com/). ΔMV<sub>N2C5</sub>, Δpl<sub>N2C5</sub>, and ΔlogP<sub>N2C5</sub> parameters were obtained by subtracting the value of molar volume of substituent at C<sub>5</sub> from that of N<sub>2</sub> on the anthrapyrazole ring system. Parent compound from which the side chain at N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub> were derived, were used for calculating the molar volume. General chemical structure of anthrapyrazoles used in this analysis is illustrated in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref> and their individual chemical structures are illustrated in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref>. The calculated parameters (MV, pl and logP) and the derived parameters (ΔMV<sub>N2C5</sub>, Δpl<sub> N2C5</sub>, and ΔlogP<sub>N2C5</sub>) are reported in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref>.</p><p>Initially the R<sup>2</sup> statistic were calculated for all the sets obtained by pairing each of the calculated and the derived parameters with anticancer activity (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>) to specify if any correlation exists between them. Then regression analysis was carried out.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Results and Discussion</title><p>The dependence of biological activity of the 6 desoxy anthrapyrazoles in which R<sub>2</sub> = −CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH on molar volume (MV<sub>R2</sub>) of the C<sub>2</sub> side chain was found to be parabolic as shown by the Equation (1) below</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 0.0689 M V R 2 − 0.0003 ( M V R 2 ) 2 + 3.4201 (1)</p><p>n = 6, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.7535, s (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.595, s (residual) = 0.295; F = 4.585.</p><p>The data set used to derive the above equation comprize compounds 4 - 9 (<xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref>). Equation (2) correlates polarizability of C<sub>5</sub> side (pl<sub>R2</sub>) chain to biological activity for the same compounds</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = − 0.0177 ( p l R 2 ) 2 + 0.448 p l R 2 + 4.483 (2)</p><p>n = 5, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.7229, s (logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.595, s (residual) = 0.313068; F = 3.913.</p><p>Equation (3) correlates the logarithm of octanol/water partition coefficient (logP<sub>R</sub><sub>2</sub>) of C<sub>5</sub> side chain to biological activity for same series</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 0.8945 ( log P R 2 ) 2 + 1.5659 log P R 2 + 6.825 (3)</p><p>n = 5, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.823, s (logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.572, s (residual) = 0.240768, F = 4.65.</p><p>Compound 8 is considered to be an outlier.</p><p>All the above 3 equations show reasonable statistics. For instant in Equation (1), F-test indicate that the probability that there is no relationship between</p><table-wrap id="table1" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref></label><caption><title> Individual structure of used Anthrapyrazole compounds</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >No</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >H-R<sub>1</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >H-R<sub>2</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >No</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >H-R<sub>1</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >H-R<sub>2</sub></th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >H-CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NH<sub>2</sub></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >H-CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >12</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHMe</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >H-CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NH<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >4</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>3</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >14</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub> 3</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >6</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NH<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >16</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub> 4</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >7</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >17</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>7</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >8</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NMe<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >18</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>-c-(CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>O</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >9</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NHCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >19</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>-c-N(CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>NH</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >10</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>5</sub>CH<sub>3</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >20</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >HCH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub></td><td align="center" valign="middle" >NH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>-c-N(CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>NCbz</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><table-wrap id="table2" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table2">Table 2</xref></label><caption><title> Parameters and biological activity for compounds 1 - 20</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >No.</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >MV<sub>HR1</sub> cm<sup>3</sup></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >MV<sub>HR2</sub> cm<sup>3</sup></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >ΔMV<sub>N2C5</sub> cm<sup>3</sup></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Pl<sub>HR1</sub> 10<sup>−24</sup> cm<sup>3</sup></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Pl<sub>HR2</sub> 10<sup>−24</sup> cm<sup>3</sup></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >ΔPl<sub>N2C5</sub> 10<sup>−24</sup> cm<sup>3</sup></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >logP<sub>HR1</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >logP<sub>HR2</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >ΔLogP<sub>N2C5</sub></th><th align="center" valign="middle" >1/logIC<sub>50</sub> μM</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >59.0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >104.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−45.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.09</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.59</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−6.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−0.19</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1.69</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.7447</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >59.0</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >138.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−79.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.09</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >14.7</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−9.61</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−0.19</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.21</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−0.4</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.05552</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >65.2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >104.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−39.3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >5.88</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.59</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−5.71</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−0.13</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1.69</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.56</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >7.09691</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >4</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >100.8</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >48.7</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >52.1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >10.19</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >4.05</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.14</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−0.44</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−0.66</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.22</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.13077</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >100.8</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >62.7</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >38.1</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >10.19</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.49</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.7</td><td align="center" 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>7.28</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.02</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.66</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−2.04</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.7</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >7.33724</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >12</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >134.8</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >90. 5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >44.3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >9.14</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >4.16</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.66</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1.15</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.81</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >7.56864</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >13</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >134.8</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >104.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >30.3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >11.59</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.71</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.66</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1.69</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >3.35</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >7.49485</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >14</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >134.8</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >138.5</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−3.7</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >14.7</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−1.4</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.66</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >0.21</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.45</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.40894</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >15</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >134.8</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >155</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−20.2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.3</td><td 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>−8.9</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >15.56</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−2.26</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.66</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−0.86</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.52</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.301</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >20</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >134.8</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >237</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−102.2</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >13.3</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >29.7</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−16.4</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >1.66</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >2.12</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >−0.46</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >6.4089</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><p>biological activity and MV<sub>R2</sub> is less than 5%. The standard deviation of the residuals calculated from the model (0.295) is smaller than the standard deviation of the original data (0.595). The correlation is depicted graphically in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>.</p><p>It is apparent from Equation (3) that anticancer activity of this particular series of anthrapyrazoles show excellent dependence on logP<sub>R2</sub>. This is to be expected since logP is the parameter that encodes partitioning behaviors of xenobiotics via cell membrane.</p><p>MV<sub>R2</sub> gives with 1/logIC<sub>50</sub> a good parabolic correlation (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.76) while pl<sub>R2</sub> gives a weaker correlation (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.72). This suggests slightly higher contribution MV<sub>R2</sub> to the observed activity compared to pl<sub>R2</sub>. It well known that biological activity of anthrapyrazole is due to their capability to bind and to intercalate to DNA. The former is due largely to the effect of substituents at N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub> and the latter is enhanced by certain features of the rigid chromophore, e.g., presence of hydroxyl group at Ring A. it may be suggested that MV<sub>R2</sub> contributes to the capability of anthrapyrazoles to intercalate into DNA possibly by adding to the overall molar volume and modifying the orientation of the intercalator in-betweens DNA double helical structure. On the other hand, pl<sub>R2</sub> contributes to DNA binding ability of anthrapyrazole since it is the basis for evaluating the nonspecific attraction forces (London dispersion forces) that may arise between the molecule and DNA.</p><p>The second subset where side chain at N<sub>2</sub> is fixed as 2-(diethylamino) ethyl (R<sub>1</sub> = −H<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>NEt<sub>2</sub>) contain compounds 11 - 20. Upon similar treatment as above, the following correlations were found:</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 0.0001 ( M V R 2 ) 2 − 0.0377 M V R 2 + 9.8842 (4)</p><p>n = 10, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.7982, s (logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.568, s (residual) = 0.266, F = 13.827</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 0.0066 ( p l R 2 ) 2 − 0.302 p l R 2 + 9.5374 (5)</p><p>n = 10, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.7973, s (logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.568, s (residual) = 0.256, F = 13.767</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 0.12 ( log P R 2 ) 2 − 0.302 log P R 2 + 6.383 (6)</p><p>n = 10, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.646, s (logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.568, s (residual) = 0.337, F = 14.64.</p><p>For this subgroup, MV<sub>R2</sub> and pl<sub>R2</sub> give a better parabolic correlation (R<sup>2</sup>’s ~ 0.80) compared with those of the first subgroup (R<sup>2</sup>’s ~ 0.75 and 0.73 for MV<sub>R2</sub> and pl<sub>R2</sub> respectively), in contrast to logP<sub>R2</sub> which gives a poorer correlation (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.65) compared to that of the first subgroup(R<sup>2</sup> = 0.82). This indicates a modified mechanistic profile in which steric and polarizability effects have a greater influence on the activity while lipophilicity has a lesser influence as compared to first subgroup. The correlation between MV<sub>R2</sub> and 1/logIC<sub>50</sub> for compounds 11 - 20 is shown graphically in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>.</p><p>Third group of compounds contains compounds 1, 2 and 3 in addition to compounds 8 and 10 which were removed as outliers from the first and the second subgroups. The following equations were obtained for the substituents at N<sub>2</sub></p><p>1 / log I C 50 = − 0.001 ( M V R 1 ) 2 + 0.238 M V R 1 − 3.597 (7)</p><p>n = 5, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.855, s (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.824, s (residuals) = 1.68</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = − 0.116 ( p l R 1 ) 2 + 2.087 p l R 1 − 1.560 (8)</p><p>n = 5, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.895, s (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.824, s (residuals) = 0.265.</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 1.527 ( log P R 1 ) 2 − 2.632 log P R 1 + 5.863 (9)</p><p>n = 5, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.5, s (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.824, s (residuals) = 0.584.</p><p>As it is apparent from Equations (7)-(9), the third subgroup shows good correlations between MV<sub>R1</sub> and pl<sub>R1</sub> with activity while logP gives a moderate correlation.</p><p>The side chain at C<sub>2</sub> gives the following equations and metrics:</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 0.001 ( M V R 2 ) 2 − 0.444 M V R 2 + 34.3 (10)</p><p>n = 5, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.334, s (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.824, s (residuals) = 3.00.</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 0.323 ( p l R 2 ) 2 − 8.643 p l R 2 + 63.33 (11)</p><p>n = 5, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.626, s (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.824, s (residuals) = 0.503.</p><p>1 / log I C 50 = 0.323 ( p l R 2 ) 2 − 8.643 p l R 2 + 63.33 (12)</p><p>n = 5, R<sup>2</sup> = 0.316, s (1/logIC<sub>50</sub>) = 0.824, s (residuals) = 0.68.</p><p>Equations (10)-(12), shows poor correlation between MV<sub>R2</sub> and logP<sub>R2</sub> with activity while pl<sub>R2</sub> gives a mild correlation. This indicates that N<sub>2</sub> substituent influence the activity more than C<sub>2</sub> substituents for this subgroup.</p><p>The present analysis shows that when N<sub>2</sub> side chains are held constant, the activity depends on C<sub>2</sub> side chains but when the N<sub>2</sub> substituents are varied, the activity depends on them rather C<sub>2</sub> side chains.</p><p>To explore the combined effect of both N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub> substituents on biological activity, new parameters ΔMV<sub>N2C5</sub>, Δpl<sub>N2C5</sub>, and ΔlogP<sub>N2C5</sub>, which represent the difference between MV, pl and log P of N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub> side chains respectively, were introduced. Visual clustering yields poor results with these derived descriptors, in contrast to regression clustering which separates the original data set into 2 clusters for each descriptor, with expelling of a few data points as outliers. This indicates a kind of interplay between the two side chains in affecting the variability of the biological response.</p><p>For ΔMV<sub>N2C5</sub>, Significant parabolic correlation were found to 1/logIC<sub>50</sub> for 13 out of the 20 anthrapyrazoles (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.816). Six of the remaining seven compounds which do not fit into above mentioned correlation give a parabolic correlation (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.88) while one compound was considered to be as an outlier. For Δpl<sub>N2C5</sub> a parabolic correlation were discerned for 12 of them (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.778). Six of the remaining compound shows a different parabolic correlation (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.84) and two were considered as outliers. ΔlogP<sub>N2C5</sub> show linear correlation for 15 compounds (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.717). The remaining 5 compounds correlate parabolically to 1/logIC<sub>50</sub> (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.846). This advocates the use of derived parameters such as ΔMV<sub>N2C5</sub>, Δpl<sub>N2C5</sub> and ΔlogP<sub>N2C5</sub> to explore the interplay of local molecular descriptors on the global activity of different molecular entity.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Conclusion</title><p>For the desoxy anthrapyrazoles studied in the present paper, the side chain at N<sub>2</sub> determines the segregation of the compounds into three subgroups. One group contains six compounds with 2-hydroxyethylaminoethyl side chain at N<sub>2</sub>. The second group contains 2-(diethylamino)ethyl side chain at N<sub>2</sub>. The third group contains miscellaneous side chains at N<sub>2</sub>. The biological response of the first and the second subgroups depends parabolically on the molar volume, polarizability and logP of C<sub>5</sub> side chain while the third group shows poor dependence. There is an interplay between the two side chain at N<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>5</sub> through derived descriptor obtained by subtracting the MV’s, pl’s and logP’s of the two side chains. The third subgroup shows strong dependence of descriptor/response correlation on the miscellaneous side chain at N<sub>2</sub> while the C<sub>2</sub> side chain has poor dependence. Such findings indicate mechanistic intricacies between the members of this group of desoxy anthrapyrazoles.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Hashim, H.A., El-Fakii, M.O.M.A. and Saeed, A.E.M. (2020) Activity Trends in Desoxy Anthrapyrazoles: The Influence of Molar Volume, Polarizability and Lipophilicity of N<sub>2</sub> C<sub>5</sub> Side Chains on Their Anticancer Response. 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