Molecular lipophilicity potential by CLIP, a reliable tool for the description of the 3D distribution of lipophilicity: application to 3-phenyloxazolidin-2-one, a prototype series of reversible MAOA inhibitors.

The capacity factor of eleven derivatives belonging to a prototype series of 3-phenyloxazolidin-2-one, reversible MAO inhibitors, was measured and compared to the calculated log Pcalc using the CLIP package. We demonstrate that this Molecular Lipophilicity Potential (MLP) approach is a valuable tool to estimate log Pcalc of such compounds.