Introduction .................................................. vii
Contributors ................................................. xiii
Chapter 1 First Principles DFT Studies of Metal-Based
Biological and Biomimetic Systems .................... 1
Arturo Robertazzi, Alessandra Magistrato, Matteo
Dal Peraro, and Paolo Carloni
Chapter 2 Structural and Thermodynamic Studies of a-Synuclein
Proteins Related to Parkinson's Disease: Impact of
Aqueous Solution and Fe3+ Coordination .............. 29
Olivia M. Wise, Liang Xu, and Orkid Coskuner
Chapter 3 Carbohydrate and Trivalent Iron Ion Interactions
in the Gas Phase and in Aqueous Solution ............ 83
Orkid Coskuner and Carlos A. González
Chapter 4 Aqueous Solutions of Metal Ions .................... 107
Orkid Coskuner and Thomas C. Allison
Chapter 5 Structure of Liquid Metal Surfaces: A First
Principles Perspective ............................. 135
Brent Walker, Nicola Marzari, and Carla Molteni
Chapter 6 Some Practical Considerations for Density
Functional Theory Studies of Chemistry at Metal
Surfaces ........................................... 163
Rudolph J. Magyar, Ann E. Mattsson, and Peter
A. Schultz
Chapter 7 Computational Investigations of Metal Oxide
Surfaces ........................................... 201
Emily A.A. Jarvis and Cynthia S. Lo
Chapter 8 Tight Binding Methods for Metallic Systems ......... 225
Luis Rincón, Thomas C. Allison, and Carlos
A. González
Chapter 9 Density Functional Calculations of Metal
Clusters: Structure, Dynamics, and Reactivity ...... 267
Dennis R. Saluhub, Patrizia Calaminici, Gabriel
U. Gamboa, Andreas M. Köster, and J. Manuel
Vásqitez
Chapter 10 Density Functional Theory Calculations on Cobalt
and Platinum Transition Metal Clusters ............. 341
Ali Sebetci
Chapter 11 Exploring the Borderland between Physics and
Chemistry: Theoretical Methods in the Study of
Atomic Clusters .................................... 371
Yamil Simón-Manso, Carlos A. González, and
Patricio Fuentealba
Index ......................................................... 395
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