Research Article

Theoretical Investigation about Inhibition Performance of Acyclovir (ACV) Molecule on Corrosion of Fe (1 1 0) Surface in Acidic Medium: DFT, MC, Toxicity and Solubility Analyses

Volume: 46 Number: 2 June 30, 2025
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Theoretical Investigation about Inhibition Performance of Acyclovir (ACV) Molecule on Corrosion of Fe (1 1 0) Surface in Acidic Medium: DFT, MC, Toxicity and Solubility Analyses

Abstract

In the present paper, mechanistic insights for the corrosion inhibition efficiency of a drug, namely 2-amino-9-[(2-hydroxyethoxy) methyl]-6,9-dihydro-1H-purin-6-one (Acyclovir) for Fe (1 1 0) surface in acidic medium are reported by means of Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamic Simulation calculations. Intercalarily, some useful information about toxicity and solubility of the mentioned chemical system is presented. For Acyclovir, many popular global and local reactivity descriptors of Conceptual DFT were calculated for the studied molecule, and how these parameters affect the inhibition efficiency of the molecule was discussed in detail. The calculations of the parameters were done via B3lyp/SVP, CAM-B3lyp/TZVP and ωB97XD/Def2-TZVP calculation level in both gas phase and aqueous media. Adsorption behaviors of the mentioned molecule on Fe (1 1 0) surface was checked with the help of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation approach. The results of both DFT and MC approaches are in good agreement with the experimental results reported previously in the literature. Also, the reactivity of the molecule was evaluated in terms of well-known electronic structure principles such as Maximum Hardness and Minimum Electrophilicity Principles. In terms of toxicity, the ACV molecule having log IGC50 value of 0.91 mmol/L exhibits good solubility and the highly negative calculated adsorption energy value for the interaction between Fe (1 1 0) surface and ACV implies the good inhibition performance of this molecule

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Theoretical Quantum Chemistry

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 30, 2025

Submission Date

December 18, 2024

Acceptance Date

April 21, 2025

Published in Issue

Year 2025 Volume: 46 Number: 2

APA
Özbakır Işın, D., & Kaya, S. (2025). Theoretical Investigation about Inhibition Performance of Acyclovir (ACV) Molecule on Corrosion of Fe (1 1 0) Surface in Acidic Medium: DFT, MC, Toxicity and Solubility Analyses. Cumhuriyet Science Journal, 46(2), 225-232. https://doi.org/10.17776/csj.1603661

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