density functional theory

Intermolecular Interaction in Two-component Compounds of Nanodiamonds and Doxorubicin

Authors: Bokarev A. N., Plastun I. L.

Background and Objectives: Detonation nanodiamond (ND) is one of the most promising materials for targeted drug delivery – one of rapidly developing areas of modern chemistry, pharmacology and medicine. Wide possibilities of surface modification and advantageous dimensions make nanodiamonds very attractive objects for using in the drug delivery process. A number of studies have shown that therapeutic efficacy of drugs is enhanced and their toxicities may be attenuated with immobilization on the enriched ND. There are a lot of drug immobilization methods on ND surfacy.

Hydrogen Bonding and its Influence on the Structure and Vibrational Spectra of Cyclohexanol

Authors: Babkov L. M., Davydova N. A., Moisejkina E. A.

In the range of 600–3600 cm–1 in a wide range of temperatures, in different phase states (plastic phase I, the crystalline phase II and III) IR spectra of cyclohexanol have been measured. Using method of density functional theory (B3LYP) in the basis of 6-31G (d) the structural-dynamic models of conformers of cyclohexanol molecules differing from each other by orientation of hydroxyl group relatively carbonic ring and H-complexes with different structures, which presumably realized in polymorphic modification of cyclohexanol, have been constructed.