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The solubility of a drug in water or in the blood represents the most desired parameter in medicine. Our aim is to obtain molecules with properties more effective than those of metoclopramide. In this work, two molecules with high solubility are constructed. Metoclopramide (a benzamide derivative) is a dopamine receptor antagonist used as an antiemetic drug. Its solubility in water is 200 mg/L at 25°C. In this work, we will develop two other molecules that have the same therapeutic activity of metoclopramide with a higher solubility in water, therefore in the blood, without affecting the other properties. The two molecules developed by molecular modeling with a chemical modification of the OH group of metoclopramide have a high solubility: approximately 3 times and 8 times that of metoclopramide. For the other physicochemical properties, there is a great similarity between the molecules. Thus, the two proposed molecules will have antiemetic activity, the second molecule will be more favorable because of its higher solubility and the number of HBA and HBD.

In the present study, we will verify the action of hydroxychloroquine-based derivatives on ACE2 which is considered to be the main portal of entry of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and constitutes an exciting target given its relative genetic stability compared to viral proteins. Thus, 81 molecules derived from hydroxychloroquine by substitutions at 4 different positions were generated in-silico and then studied for their affinity for ACE2 by molecular docking. Only 4 molecules were retained because of their affinity and bioavailability demonstrated by molecular dynamics and molecular docking calculations using COSMOtherm and Materials Studio software.

The geometries and the bonding properties have been predicted for two antiemetic drugs using Density Functional Theory method (DFT). Mulliken population and frontier molecular orbital analysis with the determination of the physicochemical properties was performed using the Amsterdam Density Functional package (ADF). To calculate the exchangecorrelation energy, the Generalized Gradient Approximation of Becke-Perdew (GGA-BP) was used. The most important finding is the still acceptable reliability of this method in predicting the physicochemical properties for the two organic drugs used in this study. The theoretical results obtained from the ADF software are compared with experimental ones obtained from literature. It was showed that the calculated properties were satisfactorily close to the experimental ones.