Search results for "DFT"

A DFT study of the vicinal 3J(119Sn,13C) and 3J(119Sn,1H) coupling constants in trimethyl- and chlorodimethyl-stannyl propanoates.

2013

Abstract We have tested the performance of DFT protocols, both at the Scalar relativistic ZORA and non-relativistic level of theory, for the calculation of the 3 J( 119 Sn, 13 C) and 3 J( 119 Sn, 1 H) vicinal couplings for a series of flexible organotin(IV) derivatives with formula XMe2SnCHRCHR′COOMe (X = Me, Cl; R, R′ = Me, Ph). A satisfactory agreement between experimental and calculated vicinal couplings has been obtained by taking into account the conformational behaviour of the compounds investigated. The protocols used, mainly the relativistic one, were found to give a correct picture of the populations and a sufficiently high overall performance in calculating the vicinal couplings, …

The chemistry of acetone at extreme conditions by density functional molecular dynamics simulations

2011

Density functional molecular dynamics simulations have been performed in the NVT ensemble (moles (N), volume (V) and temperature (T)) on a system formed by ten acetone molecules at a temperature of 2000 K and density ρ = 1.322 g cm(-3). These conditions resemble closely those realized at the interface of an acetone vapor bubble in the early stages of supercompression experiments and result in an average pressure of 5 GPa. Two relevant reactive events occur during the simulation: the condensation of two acetone molecules to give hexane-2,5-dione and dihydrogen and the isomerization to the enolic propen-2-ol form. The mechanisms of these events are discussed in detail.

Characterisation and reactions of molecular cesium azide

2006

Studio teorico dell’interazione host-guest fra un sistema tubolare ciclopeptidico e la cesio azide

2006

Adsorption and reaction of small molecules on palladium clusters: DFT studies

2007

DFT study of reduction reactions on a palladium cluster supported on a carbon nanotube

2007

Theoretical study of a palladium cluster on carbonaceous supports

2006

Imidazole-amino acids. Conformational switch under tautomer and pH change.

2022

AbstractReplacement of the main chain peptide bond by imidazole ring seems to be a promising tool for the peptide-based drug design, due to the specific prototropic tautomeric as well as amphoteric properties. In this study, we present that both tautomer and pH change can cause a conformational switch of the studied residues of alanine (1–4) and dehydroalanine (5–8) with the C-terminal peptide group replaced by imidazole. The DFT methods are applied and an environment of increasing polarity is simulated. The conformational maps (Ramachandram diagrams) are presented and the stability of possible conformations is discussed. The neutral forms, tautomers τ (1) and π (2), adapt the conformations…

Muscimol hydration and vibrational spectroscopy – The impact of explicit and implicit water

2022

The presented study focuses on the interaction of the well-known neurotoxin muscimol with water. Two approaches for the water solvent are applied – the explicit and the implicit. The muscimol-water clusters were obtained by the molecular dynamics simulations and the first solvation shell was kept for further studies. Implicit water was mimicked via the polarized continuum model (PCM). All three tautomeric forms of the free muscimol molecule are considered in the calculations. The combined theoretical and experimental vibrational IR and Raman studies determined the stability of the prevailing zwitterion form in water. We proved that water molecules in the first solvation shell are crucial fo…

DFT analysis of titanium complexes with oxygen-containing bidentate ligands

2003

Strength of the TiO co-ordinate bond in several titanium complexes with bidentate ligands has been investigated by means of DFT. Mutual interaction of particular donors and their influence on Lewis acidity of the central atom have also been studied. The energy of ligand binding ranges from −19 to −454 kJ/mol, depending on the kind of donors. Calculations confirm that a strong donor, alkoxide anion, co-ordinatively saturates the titanium and makes binding of new ligands less exoenergetic. On the contrary, two oxygen atoms of similar donor number do not have much influence on each other. Strength of the TiO bonds in titanium complexes with certain oxygen-containing bidentate ligands has bee…