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Quantum Chemical Exploration of Fentanyl and Its Analogs: Conformational Landscapes and Energetics in Solution.

Kimberlyn A McKnight, E Liyah Reed, Caroline S Glick, Leah A Juechter, Cristina A Guevara, Caitlin E Scott, George C Shields

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Article in ACS omega, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Kimberlyn A McKnightDepartment of Chemistry, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States.
E Liyah ReedDepartment of Chemistry, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States.
Caroline S GlickDepartment of Chemistry, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-2594
Leah A JuechterDepartment of Chemistry, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States.
Cristina A GuevaraDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California 90032, United States.
Caitlin E ScottDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California 90032, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4306-7091
George C ShieldsDepartment of Chemistry, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, South Carolina 29613, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1287-8585

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Opioids are clinical drugs prescribed to manage moderate and severe pain; however, they have negative side effects such as bradycardia, constipation, and respiratory depression. Their addictive properties have led to a drug epidemic and major health crisis in the U.S. Although experimental and computational studies have explored opioid binding and activation of the μ-opioid receptor (MOR), key questions remain about how these interactions relate to physiological properties. We present a quantum chemical data set of 3081 optimized geometries and relative Gibbs free energies, at physiological temperature, for fentanyl and 33 of its analogs in aqueous solution. We find that these compounds are conformationally flexible, and the

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PMCPMC12771126

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