“…However, only negligible differences in individual atomic charges for all compounds can be concluded within the same popula-tion analysis (compare the average values in Table 1) as well. As shown by DFT calculations [Bruns et al, 2002;Urbic, 2014;Kochanek et al, 2015;Liao and Chu, 2015], H•••O hydrogen bond strengths increase with the negative charges of oxygen atoms, which implies that the strength of hydrogen bonding in ternary complexes with DNA and Topo 1 is preserved in all compounds under study. Subsequently, a Cu 2+ ion has been placed near individual heteroatoms (distance of approximately 1.7 Å was proven useful in our previous studies Breza, 2016, 2017;Jelemenska and Breza, 2021;Simon, 2019, 2020;Steklac and Breza, 2021a, 2021b, 2021c ing ones are presented in Figs.…”