Enaminones 11. An examination of some ethyl ester enaminone derivatives as anticonvulsant agents.

In this paper, we investigated the previously synthesized anticonvulsant enaminone ethyl ester analogs using the computational gaussian 03 programs. The significant chemical features of the enaminone compounds that lead to positive anticonvulsant activity were identified. From our analyses, we believe that the neutrality of the phenyl ring may be important for binding in the hydrophobic pocket of the active site and that the binding of the phenyl substituent is the main reason why some analogs are active and others are inactive.