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In this research work, we have applied “Lipinski’s RO5” for pharmacokinetics (PK) study and to predict the activity of peptidic HIV-1 protease inhibitors. Peptidic HIV-1-PRIs have been taken from literature with their observed biological activities (OBAs) in term of IC50. The logarithms of the inverse of IC50 have been used as biological end point o(log1/C) in the study. For calculation of physicochemical parameters, the molecular modeling and geometry optimization of all the derivatives have been carried out with CAChe Pro software using semiempirical PM3 method. Prediction of the biological activity of the inhibitors has shown that the best QSAR model is constructed from pharmacokinetic properties, molecular weight and hydrogen bond acceptor. This also proved that these properties play important role to describe the PKs of the drugs. On the basis of the derived models one can build up a theoretical basis to access the biological activity of the compounds of the same series.

Carboxylates and their antimony(III) complexes experimentally scanned earlier for anti-leishmanial activity (IC₅₀) against five leishmanial strains viz., <i>L. major, L. major (Pak),</i><i> </i><i>L. tropica, L. mex mex, </i>and<i> L. donovani</i>. These activities have been theoretically predicted by DFT method along with quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study. Molecular modeling and geometry optimization of the all the eight compounds have been performed on workspace program of CAChe Pro software of Fujitsu by opting B88-PW91 (Becke '88; Perdew &#x26; Wang '91) GGA (generalized-gradient approximation) energy functional with DZVP (double-zeta valence polarized ) basis set in DFT (Density Functional Theory). For QSAR, multiple linear regression (MLR) analysis has been performed on Project Leader Program associated with CAChe. The reliability of correlation between experimental activities and predicted activities are r²= 0.826, r²_CV= 0.426 (<i>L. major</i>); r²= 0.905, r²_CV= 0.507 (<i>L. major (Pak)</i>); r²= 0.980, r²_CV= 0.932 (<i>L. tropica</i>); r²= 0.781, r²_CV= 0.580 (<i>L. mex mex</i>) and r²= 0.634, r²_CV= 0.376 (<i>L. donovani</i>), and a comparison of the experimental values and the values obtained by theoretical calculations has been presented pictorially that shows close resemblance.