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Francisco Tarazona-Vasquez
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 11
Citations - 151
Francisco Tarazona-Vasquez is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dendrimer & Tertiary amine. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 11 publications receiving 134 citations. Previous affiliations of Francisco Tarazona-Vasquez include University of South Carolina.
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Complexation of the Lowest Generation Poly(amidoamine)-NH2 Dendrimers with Metal Ions, Metal Atoms, and Cu(II) Hydrates: An ab Initio Study
TL;DR: A structural and thermodynamic characterization of poly(amidoamine) dendrimers with metal ions, metal atoms, and copper hydrates is carried out using ab initio (Hartree-Fock and density functional theory) techniques as mentioned in this paper.
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Dendrimer-tetrachloroplatinate precursor interactions. 1. Hydration of Pt(II) species and PAMAM outer pockets.
TL;DR: Density functional theory is used to investigate the structure and energetics of the tetrachloroplatinate anion and its hydrolysis products at several degrees of hydration, as well as those of outer dendrimer pockets hosting such species.
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Dendrimer-Tetrachloroplatinate Precursor Interactions. 2. Noncovalent Binding in PAMAM Outer Pockets
TL;DR: The effect of the outer pocket (host) on the binding affinity of guest molecules is analyzed and it is found that is more feasible for the host to accept species, particularly charged ones, inside an unprotonated pocket rather than outside; unlike the protonatedpocket where the opposite is more likely to occur.
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Complexation of Cu(II) Ions with the Lowest Generation Poly(amido-amine)-OH Dendrimers: A Molecular Simulation Study
TL;DR: Classical molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations are performed and it is concluded that both the solvent as well as the folding of the dendrimer branch play an important role in copper(II) ion complexes.
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Pt(II) uptake by dendrimer outer pockets: 1. Solventless ligand exchange reaction.
TL;DR: Density functional theory is used to elucidate molecular-level details of the complexation of Pt(II) metal compounds with PAMAM dendrimers and it is found that to have a PtCl(3)(-) moiety bound to N3, as a result of noncovalent binding (NCB) and LER, is more likely than to have any other ion hosted in the outer pockets.