scholarly journals Interaction between doped C60 fullerenes and piperazine-2,3,5,6-tetraone: DFT simulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 63-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özgür Alver ◽  
Cemal Parlak ◽  
Ponnadurai Ramasami ◽  
Mustafa Şenyel

Abstract Piperazine and tetraone-related compounds are widely used in the drug industry. Heteroatom-doped fullerenes are studied as new types of sensor devices, and medical applications are studied as drug delivery vehicles. In this work, Si- or Al-doped C60 fullerenes and their interactions with piperazine-2,3,5,6-tetraone (ppto) molecule and some important structural or electronic properties were examined using the density functional theory (DFT). Results indicate that doped C60 fullerenes might be used to diagnose the presence of ppto as delivery vehicle and sensor because of their high adsorption energies and change of band gap energies.

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özgür Alver ◽  
Cemal Parlak ◽  
Yunusa Umar ◽  
Ponnadurai Ramasami

Abstract Fullerenes have received attentions due to their versatile properties. Molecular structures and electronic properties namely binding energy, band gap, electrophilicity index and molecular topological analysis were studied for undoped and silicon doped C20 fullerenes and favipiravir in order to search for possible application of the systems as drug delivery vehicles. Density functional theory (DFT) and quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) were used for the research. Molecular structures having the interaction edges of SiC19… OH in water and SiC19…C=O in gas phase were found as those most stable with binding energies of -57.28 kcal/mol and -43.46 kcal/mol correspondingly. The results and parameters found in this research may provide additional insights into drug delivery systems.


2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (11n12) ◽  
pp. 1563-1569 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. PROFETA ◽  
A. CONTINENZA ◽  
F. BERNARDINI ◽  
G. SATTA ◽  
S. MASSIDDA

We report a detailed study of the electronic and dynamical properties of MgB2 , BeB2 and of the AlMgB4 superlattice, within the local density approximation to the density functional theory. On the basis of our results we discuss the superconducting properties of these systems, and point to the high T c in MgB2 as a fortunate combination of events.


2003 ◽  
Vol 763 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Domain ◽  
J.M. Raulot ◽  
S. Laribi ◽  
S. Taunier ◽  
J.F. Guillemoles

AbstractThe opto-electronic properties of CuInSe2 and related compounds depend on their defect chemistry in a way that is far from being understood and in which ab initio calculations could help by providing new insights as shown previously. Ab initio calculations of energy and electronic structure of various intrinsic (including defect pairs) and extrinsic (including potential dopants such as Zn) point defects have been performed in the chalcopyrite semiconductors CuInSe2, some of them being computed for the first time by advanced ab initio techniques. The method used is based on the density functional theory within the framework of pseudo-potentials and plane waves basis set. The results are discussed in view of the existing data, models and calculations.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tulin Okbinoglu ◽  
Pierre Kennepohl

Molecules containing sulfur-nitrogen bonds, like sulfonamides, have long been of interest due to their many uses and chemical properties. Understanding the factors that cause sulfonamide reactivity is important, yet their continues to be controversy regarding the relevance of S-N π bonding in describing these species. In this paper, we use sulfur K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in conjunction with density functional theory (DFT) to explore the role of S<sub>3p</sub> contributions to π-bonding in sulfonamides, sulfinamides and sulfenamides. We explore the nature of electron distribution of the sulfur atom and its nearest neighbors and extend the scope to explore the effects on rotational barriers along the sulfur-nitrogen axis. The experimental XAS data together with TD-DFT calculations confirm that sulfonamides, and the other sulfinated amides in this series, have essentially no S-N π bonding involving S<sub>3p</sub> contributions and that electron repulsion and is the dominant force that affect rotational barriers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Li ◽  
Xiaobo Li ◽  
Shidong Zhang ◽  
Liemao Cao ◽  
Fangping Ouyang ◽  
...  

AbstractStrain engineering has become one of the effective methods to tune the electronic structures of materials, which can be introduced into the molecular junction to induce some unique physical effects. The various γ-graphyne nanoribbons (γ-GYNRs) embedded between gold (Au) electrodes with strain controlling have been designed, involving the calculation of the spin-dependent transport properties by employing the density functional theory. Our calculated results exhibit that the presence of strain has a great effect on transport properties of molecular junctions, which can obviously enhance the coupling between the γ-GYNR and Au electrodes. We find that the current flowing through the strained nanojunction is larger than that of the unstrained one. What is more, the length and strained shape of the γ-GYNR serves as the important factors which affect the transport properties of molecular junctions. Simultaneously, the phenomenon of spin-splitting occurs after introducing strain into nanojunction, implying that strain engineering may be a new means to regulate the electron spin. Our work can provide theoretical basis for designing of high performance graphyne-based devices in the future.


Author(s):  
I. Yu. Sklyadneva ◽  
Rolf Heid ◽  
Pedro Miguel Echenique ◽  
Evgueni Chulkov

Electron-phonon interaction in the Si(111)-supported rectangular √(7 ) ×√3 phases of In is investigated within the density-functional theory and linear-response. For both single-layer and double-layer √(7 ) ×√3 structures, it...


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4086
Author(s):  
Weiliang Ma ◽  
Marie-Christine Record ◽  
Jing Tian ◽  
Pascal Boulet

Owing to their low lattice thermal conductivity, many compounds of the n(PbTe)-m(Bi2Te3) homologous series have been reported in the literature with thermoelectric (TE) properties that still need improvement. For this purpose, in this work, we have implemented the band engineering approach by applying biaxial tensile and compressive strains using the density functional theory (DFT) on various compounds of this series, namely Bi2Te3, PbBi2Te4, PbBi4Te7 and Pb2Bi2Te5. All the fully relaxed Bi2Te3, PbBi2Te4, PbBi4Te7 and Pb2Bi2Te5 compounds are narrow band-gap semiconductors. When applying strains, a semiconductor-to-metal transition occurs for all the compounds. Within the range of open-gap, the electrical conductivity decreases as the compressive strain increases. We also found that compressive strains cause larger Seebeck coefficients than tensile ones, with the maximum Seebeck coefficient being located at −2%, −6%, −3% and 0% strain for p-type Bi2Te3, PbBi2Te4, PbBi4Te7 and Pb2Bi2Te5, respectively. The use of the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) as a complementary tool has shown that the van der Waals interactions located between the structure slabs evolve with strains as well as the topological properties of Bi2Te3 and PbBi2Te4. This study shows that the TE performance of the n(PbTe)-m(Bi2Te3) compounds is modified under strains.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-368
Author(s):  
Kaiwen Zheng ◽  
Kai Guo ◽  
Jing Xu ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Junlang Chen ◽  
...  

AbstractCatechin – a natural polyphenol substance – has excellent antioxidant properties for the treatment of diseases, especially for cholesterol lowering. Catechin can reduce cholesterol content in micelles by forming insoluble precipitation with cholesterol, thereby reducing the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine. In this study, to better understand the molecular mechanism of catechin and cholesterol, we studied the interaction between typical catechins and cholesterol by the density functional theory. Results show that the adsorption energies between the four catechins and cholesterol are obviously stronger than that of cholesterol themselves, indicating that catechin has an advantage in reducing cholesterol micelle formation. Moreover, it is found that the molecular interactions of the complexes are mainly due to charge transfer of the aromatic rings of the catechins as well as the hydrogen bond interactions. Unlike the intuitive understanding of a complex formed by hydrogen bond interaction, which is positively correlated with the number of hydrogen bonds, the most stable complexes (epicatechin–cholesterol or epigallocatechin–cholesterol) have only one but stronger hydrogen bond, due to charge transfer of the aromatic rings of catechins.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Kurogi ◽  
Keiichi Irifune ◽  
Takahiro Enoki ◽  
Kazuhiko Takai

Reduction of CCl4 by CrCl2 in THF afforded a trinuclear chromium(III) carbyne [CrCl(thf)2)]3(μ3-CCl)(μ-Cl)3. The chlorocarbyne complex reacted with aldehydes to afford chloroallylic alcohols and terminal alkynes. The density functional theory...


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