Métodos computacionais aplicados no estudo de fármacos

Abstract

In this work we performed ab initio calculations on two drugs, benzonidazole and mebendazole, used on the treatment of parasitic infections. The calculations were divided into obtaining the vibrational modes Raman and infrared spectra, molecular dynamics and calculation of the potential energy distribution. We developed the software PEDCALC to calculate the potential energy distribution and classify the vibrational modes. The classification of the vibrational modes is done by comparing the calculated spectra with experimental spectra and the potential energy distribution. We showed that software PEDCALC can produce accurate results of the potential energy distribution, and it is essential tool in the classification of vibrational modes of any molecule. We performed molecular dynamics calculations in the dimer of mebendazole to show the exchange of hydrogen atoms between its monomers, so we observed the dynamics of the tautomerism of this molecule.