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. 2020 Aug 7:1–18. doi: 10.1080/07391102.2020.1803968

Table 1.

Molecular configuration and drug likeliness properties of proposed ligand drug molecules for COVID-19 by SWISS ADME data.

Drug likeness properties berberine (a) choline (b) β-sitosterol (c) tetrahydropalmatine (d) octacosanol (e)
  Physicochemical Properties
Molecular weight (gm/mol) 336.361 104.1708 414.718 355.434 410.7595
Num.H-bond acceptors 4 1 1 5 1
Num. H-bond donors 0 1 1 0 1
No of rotatable bonds 2 2 6 4 26
Molar Refractivity 94.87 30 133.23 103.99 137.87
Topological polar surface area TPSA (Å2) 40.80 Ų 2 0.23 Ų 20.23 Ų 40.16 Ų 20.23 Ų
  Lipophilicity
Log Po/w (iLOGP) −0.00 −2.41 5.05 3.69 7.20
Log Po/w (XLOGP3) 3.62 −0.40 9.34 3.24 13.61
Log Po/w (WLOGP) 2.19 −0.32 8.02 2.52 10.14
Log Po/w (MLOGP) 2.53 −3.46 6.73 2.20 7.07
Log Po/w (SILICOS-IT) 7.24 −0.57 7.04 3.75 10.96
Concensus Log Po/w 9.80 −1.38 7.24 3.08 9.80
  Druglikeness
Lipinski yes yes yes yes yes
(1 violation)
Veber yes yes yes yes yes
(1 violation)
Ghose yes Partly yes (2 violation) No yes No
Egan yes yes yes (1 violation) yes yes
(1 violation)
Muegge yes yes (1 violation) Partly yes (2 violation) yes No
Bioavailability score 0.55 0.55 0.55 0.55 0.55
Synthetic accessibility (SA) 3.14 1 6.30 3.59 3.72
  Pharmacokinetics
GI absorption High Yes Low High Low
BBB permeant Yes No No Yes No
P-gp substrate Yes No No Yes Yes
Log Kp (skin permeation) −5.78 cm/s −7.22 cm/s −2.20 cm/s −6.17 cm/s 0.86 cm/s
  Water Solubility
Log S (SILICOS-IT) −5.92 −1.26 −6.19 −5.87 −10.53
Solubility (mg/mL) 4.00e − 04 5.74e + 00 2.69e − 04 4.81e − 04 1.20e − 08
Toxicity Rat LD50: 2.7834 mol/kg Oral rat LD50: 3400 mg/kg Not Available Not Available Not Available