Orbital - Vol. 11 No. 1 - January-March 2019
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Computational Studies of Fullerene Derivatives as Pesticide Captors

Isis de Castro Souza
Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo - Campus Vitória
Arlan da Silva Gonçalves
Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo - Campus Vila Velha

Published 2019-03-30

Keywords

  • captors,
  • fullerene derivatives,
  • molecular docking,
  • molecular modeling,
  • organophosphates,
  • pesticides
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How to Cite

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Souza, I. de C.; Gonçalves, A. da S. Computational Studies of Fullerene Derivatives As Pesticide Captors. Orbital: Electron. J. Chem. 2019, 11 (1), 10-17.

Abstract

The use of pesticides in tropical countries such as Brazil has grown resulting in alarming health damage statistics, deaths and environmental pollution. Considering its potential risk and the difficulty on detecting their residues instantaneously in field, six fullerene derivatives were planned using semiempirical calculations and molecular docking to understand its potential as adsorbents and captors of agricultural organophosphate (Ops) pesticides. As Ops were selected acephate, cadusafos, chlorpyrifos, dimethoate, fenitrothion, phenthoate, malaoxon, malathion, methyl-parathion and terbufos. The proposal 4 had the best results and between the Ops, fenitrothion presented the best results, followed by malathion, malaoxon, phentoate and methyl-parathion.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17807/orbital.v11i1.1215

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