Publications by authors named "Hussein Moustafa"

In the spirit of the mounting interest in noncovalent interactions, the present study was conducted to scrutinize a special type that simultaneously involved both σ-hole and lone pair (lp) interactions with aromatic π-systems. Square-pyramidal pentavalent halogen-containing molecules, including X-Cl-F, F-Y-F, and F-I-X compounds (where X = F, Cl, Br, and I and Y = Cl, Br, and I) were employed as σ-hole/lp donors. On the other hand, benzene (BZN) and hexafluorobenzene (HFB) were chosen as electron-rich and electron-deficient aromatic π-systems, respectively.

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In this work, three computational methods (Hatree-Fock (HF), Møller-Plesset 2 (MP2), and Density Functional Theory (DFT)) using a variety of basis sets are used to determine the atomic and molecular properties of dihydrothiouracil-based indenopyridopyrimidine (TUDHIPP) derivatives. Reactivity descriptors of this system, including chemical potential (µ), chemical hardness (η), electrophilicity (ω), condensed Fukui function and dual descriptors are calculated at B3LYP/6-311++ G (d,p) to identify reactivity changes of these molecules in both gas and aqueous phases. We determined the molecular electrostatic surface potential (MESP) to determine the most active site in these molecules.

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The electronic absorption spectra of 6-ethyl-4-hydroxy-2,5-dioxo-pyrano[3,2-c] quinoline 1, 6-ethyl-4-hydroxy-3-nitro-2,5-dioxo-pyrano[3,2-c] quinoline 2, 6-ethyl-4-chloro-2,5-dioxo-pyrano[3,2-c] quinoline 3, 6-ethyl-3-nitro-4-chloro-2,5-dioxo-pyrano[3,2-c] quinoline 4, 6-ethyl-4,5-dioxopyrano[3,2-c] quinoline 5, and 6-ethyl-3-nitro-6H-pyrano [3,2-c]quinoline-4,5-dione 6, were measured in polar (methanol) as well as nonpolar (dioxane) solvents. The geometries were optimized using B3LYB/6-311G (p,d) method. The most stable geometry of the studied compounds, 1-6, is the planar structure as indicates by the values of the dihedral angles.

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