QSRR analysis of β-lactam antibiotics on a penicillin G targeted MIP stationary phase.

The imprinting factors of the β-lactam antibiotics penicillin V, methicillin, nafcillin, oxacillin, cloxacillin, dicloxacillin, and piperacillin on a poly(methacrylic acid-co-trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate) molecularly imprinted stationary phase targeted for penicillin G were correlated with molecular descriptors obtained by molecular computation. One-parameter linear regression and multivariate data analysis by principal component analysis and partial least square regression indicated that descriptors associated with molecular topology, shape, size, and volume were highly correlated with the imprinting factor and influential on the derived models.