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The electrostatic interaction energy further correlated with Ki (r = \u2013 0.890, p = 0.043), whereas total interfragment contact density showed no correlation, indicating that within this five-compound series, inhibitory potency was more closely associated with charge-redistribution magnitude and electrostatic interaction than with the interfragment contact-density descriptor.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1021\/acsomega.6c08309","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,8]],"date-time":"2026-09-08T15:02:36Z","timestamp":1788879756000},"page":"56539-56550","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Electronic-Structure\nDeterminants of Flavonoid Inhibition\nat the Molybdenum Cofactor of Xanthine Oxidase: A QM\/MM Study"],"prefix":"10.1021","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7194-7555","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Mei-Ling","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"China Medical University , , ,","place":["Taichung, Taiwan, 406040"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cheng-Hong","family":"Hsieh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Medical University , , ,","place":["Taichung, Taiwan, 406040"]},{"name":"Asia University , , 500 Lioufeng Road , , ,","place":["Taichung, Wufeng, Taiwan, 413305"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2470-1376","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Shang-Ming","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Medical University , , ,","place":["Taichung, Taiwan, 406040"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3449-8447","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Kuo-Chiang","family":"Hsu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Medical University , , ,","place":["Taichung, Taiwan, 406040"]},{"name":"Asia University , , 500 Lioufeng Road , , ,","place":["Taichung, Wufeng, Taiwan, 413305"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"316","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026092211023618200_cit1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"195","DOI":"10.2174\/0929867023371229","article-title":"Progress towards the Discovery of\nXanthine Oxidase Inhibitors","volume":"9","author":"Borges","year":"2002","journal-title":"Curr. 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