Designing Excess Electron Compounds by Substituting Alkali Metals to a Small and Versatile Tetracyclic Framework: A Theoretical Perspective.

Organic compound-based nonlinear optical (NLO) materials have sparked a lot of attention due to their multitude of applications and shorter optical response times than those of inorganic NLO materials. In the present investigation, we designed exo-exo-tetracyclo[6.2.

Far-red/near-infrared emitting, two-photon absorbing, and bio-stable amino-Si-pyronin dyes.

Organic fluorophores emitting in the far-red/near-infrared (NIR) wavelength region are in great demand for minimal autofluorescence and reduced light scattering in deep tissue or whole body imaging. Currently, only a few classes of far-red/NIR fluorophores are available including widely used cyanine dyes, which are susceptible to photobleaching and form nonfluorescent aggregates. Even rare are those far-red/NIR emitting dyes that have two-photon imaging capability.

Investigation of the encapsulation of metal cations (Cu, Zn, Ca and Ba) by the dipeptide Phe-Phe using natural bond orbital theory and molecular dynamics simulation.

Complexes of the dipeptide phenylalanine-phenylalanine (Phe-Phe) with divalent metal cations (Cu, Zn, Ca and Ba) were studied at the B3LYP and MP2 levels of theory with the basis sets 6-311++G(d,p) and 6-31 + G(d) in the gas phase. The relative energies of these complexes indicated that cation-π bidentate/tridentate conformations are more favourable than other conformations with uncoordinated rings. These findings were confirmed by the calculated values of thermodynamic parameters such as the Gibbs free energy.

Direct visual evidence of end-on adsorption geometry of pyridine on silver surface investigated by surface enhanced Raman scattering and density functional theory calculations.

Fourier transform Raman (FT-Raman) spectra of neat pyridine (Py) and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of Py with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) solution at different molar concentrations (X=1.5M, 1.0M, 0.

Size dependent structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of Sc(N) (N=2-14) clusters investigated by density functional theory.

Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of ScN (N=2-14) clusters have been investigated using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Different spin states isomer for each cluster size has been optimized with symmetry relaxation. The structural stability, dissociation energy, binding energy, spin stability, vertical ionization energy, electron affinity, chemical hardness, and size dependent magnetic moment per atom are calculated for the energetically most stable spin isomer for each size.

Different proton transfer channels for the transformation of zwitterionic alanine-(H₂O)(n=2-4) to nonzwitterionic alanine-(H₂O)(n=2-4): a density functional theory study.

We report here the various possibilities of proton transfer between the zwitterionic and the non-zwetterionic form of alanine (Ala) via (H₂O)(n=2-4) clusters by calculating the transition state structures of zwitterionic alanine (ZAla)-(H₂O)(n=2-4) and non-zwitterionic alanine (Ala)-(H₂O)(n=2-4) complexes at B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) and CAM-B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory. In order to determine the most feasible channel for proton transfer, the barrier energy corresponding to each channel was calculated. For the transformation of ZAla-(H₂O)(n=2) to Ala-(H₂O)(n=2), we identified eight channels for proton transfer.