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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 111, Issue 20, Pages 4391-4396Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp070306t
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Binding of gold and silver clusters with amino acids (glycine and cysteine) was studied using density functional theory (DFT). Geometries of neutral, anionic, and cationic amino acids with Au-3 and Ag-3 clusters were optimized using the DFT-B3LYP approach. The mixed basis set used here was denoted by 6-31+G** boolean OR LANL2DZ. This work demonstrated that the interaction of amino acids with gold and silver clusters is governed by two major bonding factors: (a) the anchoring N-Au(Ag), O-Au(Ag), and S-Au(Ag) bonds and (b) the nonconventional N-H center dot center dot center dot Au(Ag) and O-H center dot center dot center dot Au(Ag) hydrogen bonds. Among the three forms of amino acids, anionic ones exhibited the most tendency to interact with the Au and Ag clusters. Natural bond orbital analysis was performed to calculate charge transfer, natural population analysis, and Wiberg bond indices of the complexes. Atoms-in-molecules theory was also applied to determine the nature of interactions. It was shown that these bonds are partially electrostatic and partially covalent.
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