Prodrugs of Acyclovir - A Computational Approach

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 819-834

  Karaman, Rafik ^a   Dajani, Khuloud K ^a   Qtait, Alaa ^a   Khamis, Mustafa ^a  

^a AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Acyclovir prodrugs; Bioavailability of acyclovir; Density functional theory calculations; Intramolecular amide hydrolysis; Maleamic acid amides

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMIDE; CARBON; PRODRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG RELEASE; DRUG STRUCTURE; HYDROLYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACYCLOVIR; AMIDES; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG STABILITY; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MALEATES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PRODRUGS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84859420858     PISSN: 17470277     EISSN: 17470285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2012.01335.x     Document Type: Article

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