Vibrational Spectral Studies, Quantum Mechanical Properties, and Biological Activity Prediction and Inclusion Molecular Self-Assembly Formation of N-N’-Dimethylethylene Urea

Abstract

A cyclic urea analog, N-N'-dimethylethylene urea, was studied using different spectral methods like FT-IR, FT-Raman, and UV-VIS methods followed by computational simulations. The experimental and simulated spectra are compared, and a detailed assignment of vibrations and potential energy distribution is made. It was followed by various quantum mechanical studies like frontier orbital analysis, energy descriptors, average local ionization energies, and nonlinear optical properties. The NBO gave an insight into the various intramolecular stabilizing electron delocalization by hyperconjugation. Noncovalent interaction analysis provided various types of interactions present in the molecule. We also studied ALIE, local information entropy, electron localized function, reduced density gradient studies, localized orbital locator studies, and other analyses. Molecular docking results indicated that this urea derivative acted as an ATP-hydrolysing inhibitor, and the drug delivery ability of cyclodextrin on NND was tested by forming an inclusion complex with both compounds with dispersion and without dispersion interaction.