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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 10, Issue 19, Pages 2767-2774Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b719764k
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Density functional theory (DFT-D) and semi-empirical (PM3-D) methods having an added dispersion correction have been used to study stabilising carbohydrate -aromatic and amino acid -aromatic interactions. The interaction energy for three simple sugars in different conformations with benzene, all give interaction energies close to 5 kcal mol(-1). Our original parameterization of PM3 (PM3-D) seriously overestimates this value, and has prompted a reparametrization which includes a modified core -core interaction term. With two additional parameters, the carbohydrate complexes, as well as the S22 data set, are well reproduced. The new PM3 scheme (PM3-D*) is found to describe the peptide bond -aromatic ring interactions accurately and, together with the DFT-D method, it is used to investigate the interaction of six amino acids with pyrene. Whilst the peptide backbone can adopt both stacked and T-shaped structures in the complexes with similar interaction energies, there is a preference for the unsaturated ring to adopt a stacked structure. Thus, peptides in which the latter interactions are maximised are likely to be the most effective for the functionalisation of carbon nanotubes.
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