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This study contains synthesis, antimicrobial activity, density functional modelling and molecular docking studies of benzoxazole derivative: 2-(p-chloro-benzyl)-5-[3-(4-ethly-1-piperazynl) propionamido]-benzoxazole. The synthetic procedure of investigated compound is given in detail. The newly synthesized benzoxazole compound and standard drugs were evaluated for their antimicrobial activity against some Gram-positive, Gram-negative bacteria and fungus C. albicans and their drug-resistant isolates. The benzoxazole compound has been characterized by using 1H-NMR, IR and MASS spectrometry and elemental analysis techniques. The molecular structure of the compound in the ground state has been modelling using density functional theory (DFT) with B3LYP/6-311++g(d,p) level. The molecular docking of 2-(p-chloro-benzyl)-5-[3-(4-ethly-1-piperazynl) propionamido]-benzoxazole with COVID-19 main protease has been also performed by using optimized geometry and the experimentally determined dimensional structure of the main protease (M-pro) of COVID-19., Graphical abstract Image, graphical abstract

Unver, Huseyin/0000-0003-3968-4385; Polat, Kamran/0000-0001-7617-2480 WOS: 000347495400004 Synthesis, crystal structure, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and quantum mechanical studies of the 2-(4-bromobenzyl)-5-ethylsulphonyl-1,3-benzoxazole (C16H14NO3SBr) have been reported. The molecular structure obtained from X-ray single-crystal analysis of the investigated compound in the ground state has been compared using Hartree-Fock (HF) and density functional theory (DFT) with the functional B3LYP and B1B95 using the 6-311++G(d,p) basis set. In addition to the optimized geometrical structures, atomic charges, molecular electrostatic potential (MEP), natural bond orbital (NBO), nonlinear optical (NLO) effects and thermodynamic properties of the compound have been investigated by using DFT. The potential energy surface (PES) scans about four important torsion angles are performed by using B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theoretical approximation for the compound. The experimental (FT-IR) and calculated vibrational frequencies (using DFT) of the title compound have been compared. The total molecular dipole moment (mu), linear polarisability (alpha), and the first-order hyperpolarisability (beta) were predicted by using DFT with different basis sets 6-31G(d), 6-31+G(d,p), 6-31++G(d,p), 6-311+G(d) and 6-311++G(d,p) for investigating the effects of basis sets on the NLO properties. Our computational results yield that beta(tot) for the title compound is greater than those of urea. The standard thermodynamic functions were obtained for the title compound with the temperature ranging from 200 to 450 K. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.