the monitoring and controlling of environmental pollutions are very important in biological and industrial processes, and a great interest is growing with the development of suitable gas–sensitive materials and hazardous chemical removal devices. in this work, the highly parameterized, empirical exchange–correlation functional m06–2x were employed to investigate the electronic sensitivity of pe...

Electronic singlet excitations of stacked adenine-thymine (AT) and guanine-cytosine (GC) complexes have been investigated with respect to local excitation and charge-transfer (CT) characters. Potential energy curves for rigid displacement of the nucleobases have been computed to establish the distance dependence of the CT states. The second-order algebraic diagrammatic construction [ADC(2)] met...

The rational design of quinones with specific redox properties is an issue of great interest because of their applications in pharmaceutical and material sciences. In this work, the electrochemical behavior of a series of four p-quinones was studied experimentally and theoretically. The first and second one-electron reduction potentials of the quinones were determined using cyclic voltammetry a...

Density functional theory is now the method of choice for calculating the electronic structure of complex systems, and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is now the preferred method for calculating spectroscopic properties of large molecules. The validity of the theory depends mainly on the quality of the approximation to the unknown exchange-correlation energy. In the present pap...

The OH + CO → H + CO(2) reaction is important in combustion, atmospheric, and interstellar chemistry. Whereas the direct reaction has been extensively studied both experimentally and theoretically, the reverse reaction has received relatively less attention. Here we carry out a quasiclassical trajectory study of the hyperthermal H + CO(2)→ OH + CO reaction on a new interpolated potential energy...

In this work, we examine the performance of XYG3, a newly developed doubly hybrid density functional (Zhang, Xu, and Goddard III, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009, 106, 4963), to calculate covalent bond dissociation enthalpy (BDE). We use 5 atoms, 32 molecular radicals, and 116 closed-shell molecules to set up 142 bond dissociation reactions. For the total of 148 heats of formation (HOFs) and 142 BD...

The aim of this work is to investigate polymer[middle dot][middle dot][middle dot]substrate interactions for a polymer nanocomposite material: poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) confined in graphite oxide (GO). Six discrete and simplified models (one for PEO and five for GO) have been chosen in order to reproduce the most likely PEO···GO interactions. Twelve potential interaction energy curves have bee...

Density functional theory is now the method of choice for calculating the electronic structure of complex systems, and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is now the preferred method for calculating spectroscopic properties of large molecules. The validity of the theory depends mainly on the quality of the approximation to the unknown exchange–correlation energy. In the present pap...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Chalcones are ubiquitous natural compounds with a wide variety of reported biological activities, including antitumoral, antiviral and antimicrobial effects. Furthermore, chalcones are being studied for its potential use in organic electroluminescent devices; therefore the description of their spectroscopic properties is important to elucidate the structure of these mol...

The addition of primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl radicals to single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) was studied by means of dispersion corrected density functional theory. The PBE, B97-D, M06-L, and M06-2X functionals were used. Consideration of Van der Waals interactions is essential to obtain accurate addition energies. In effect, the enthalpy changes at 298 K, for the addition of methyl...