The professional practice of chemist is defined by Ordinary Resolution nº 1,511 of 1975, edited by the Federal Council of Chemistry. This legislation is outdated and not in line with the National Curricular Guidelines for chemistry courses, approved by the National Council of Education in 2001. This situation has greatly hampered the training of future chemistry professional and the modernization of undergraduate courses and must be urgently corrected by those responsible for formulating the legislation that defines the chemistry courses. Thus, we understand that the time has come for the Federal Council of Chemistry, Scientific Societies and Universities to work together to solve this problem, modernizing the legislation that defines the attributions of the chemistry professionals and defining the necessary profile for their professional practice in the XXI century.

Spin crossover is a property found in some coordination compounds formed by the first series of transition metals with d4-d7 configuration. These complexes, when stimulated by an external factor (temperature, light, etc.), can be converted from their low spin states to high spin states, or vice versa. However, this issue is not addressed in the Inorganic Chemistry literature used in undergraduate courses. In this work, the Density Functional Theory is used to predict which complexes may present the Spin Cross Over property. In addition to establish a methodology to predict in which situations this process will occur, this computational tool can also be used in undergraduate or postgraduate classes to explore this property in the study of coordination compounds.

In this work, density functional theory (DFT) was used to study the caused effect on reactivity of 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) by substituent groups (-H, -CH3, -OCH3, -Cl and -NO2) on different positions of the 8-HQ structure. DFT was also used to obtain the electronic profile of β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) bind site to Zinc. The energies and absolute hardness (η) values, besides participation percentages values and graphical representation of highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of 8-HQ derivatives and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of Aβ bind site to Zinc (ZnAβ) were analysed. The calculations indicated that the hardest ligands with each substituent formed the most stable complexes with Zinc, and the electronic nature of substituent points to a preferential position on 8-HQ structure. The LUMO profile of ZnAβ showed that the ligands dislocate one of histidine residues for interacting with Zinc.

In this work, Density Functional Theory was used in the theoretical study of the coordination of three ligands derived from 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) with N-acylhydrazone: 8-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxaldehyde isonicotinoyl hydrazone (INHHQ), 2-[(8-hydroxyquinolinyl)methylene] acetohydrazide (8-H2QH) and 2-[(8-hydroxyquinolinyl)methylene] hydrazinecarboxamide (8-H2QS); with the Zn2+ion. These complexes prevent interactions of the metal ions present in the brain, with the β-amyloid peptide (Aβ), avoiding the formation of aggregates that are responsible for the development of the Alzheimer's disease. The results show that the three ligands coordinate the Zn2+ion in a tridentate form through the O and N atoms of the 8-hydroxyquinoline center and the N of the hydrazonic group, completing the coordination sphere with two chloride ions, creating a bipyramidal structure trigonal, different from the structures of the complexes reported in the literature.

In December 2004, Brazil's President signed Law number 10.973, which provides for incentives toward innovation, scientific and technological research in the production environment and other measures, also known as the Law of Innovation. Although Brazil has advanced greatly in the number of scientific articles published, currently accounting for about 3% of world scientific output, this progress has not been replicated in the production of patents. This article presents a discussion on the importance of introducing patent issues into national undergraduate courses.

Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations on the interactions of small atoms (H, C, O, and S) on first-row transition metal clusters were performed. The results show that the adsorption site may vary between the metal surface and the edge of the cluster. The adsorption energies, adatom-nearest neighbor and adatom-metal plane distances were also determined. Finally, the authors present a discussion about the performance of these metals as anodes on solid oxide fuel cells. The results obtained agree with empirical data, indicating that the theoretical model used is adequate

The [RuCl(bipy)(dppb)(4-pic)]PF6 complex was prepared and fully characterized. The X-ray crystal structure of this complex was determined in order to make an unambiguous distinction between the two possible positions of the 4-methylpyridine ligand (4-pic) in the compound: trans to phosphorus atom or trans to nitrogen atom. The [RuCl(bipy)(dppb)(4-pic)]PF6 complex exhibits an unusual temperature-dependent accidental degeneracy of the 31P chemical shifts in its solution NMR spectrum.

Metals play a vital role in human and plant physiology and important research is directed towards exploring the interrelated mechanisms that govern their interactions with biomolecules. Bioinorganic medicinal chemistry studies the functions, processing, storage and applications of metal ions and their complexes in biological systems. This paper presents a brief discussion about on interactions of metals with biomolecules that determine their intracellular accumulation, where metal ions may fulfill essential functions in cellular metabolism or, in certain cases, exert toxic effects towards cells.

Combinatorial chemistry refers to techniques to rapidly fabricate tens, hundreds or even thousands of different micro samples. The analysis of the large number of samples generated by combinatorial methods requires highly efficient analytical methods. In this case, the challenges are due not only to the large number of samples to be analyzed, but also to the small amount of sample available for analysis. This paper describes the fundamentals of combinatorial chemical methods applied to discover of materials and the development in x-ray diffraction to analyze micro samples.

Siderophores (from the Greek: "iron carriers") are defined as relatively low molecular weight, ferric ion specific chelating agents elaborated by microorganisms growing under low iron stress. The role of these compounds is to scavenge iron from the environment and to make this essential chemical element available to the microbial cell. The present paper is a brief presentation of siderophore coordination chemistry with emphasis on those aspects relevant to the transportation of iron (III) complexes across biological membranes. Finally, the role of siderophores in infection and their clinical potential as iron scavenging molecules are reviewed.

A methodology is presented to obtain force field parameters to be used in molecular mechanics. The case of Ru(II) is investigated and the parameters obtained, specially its covalent radii, are employed to model Ru(II) coordination compound. The combined use of molecular mechanics with ab initio methods allowed us to predict the metal-ligand stretching force constant for Ru(II) coordination compounds.

The present paper is a review about basic principles of the molecular mechanics that is the most important tool used in molecular modeling area, and their applications to the calculation of the relative stability and chemical reactivity of organometalic and coordination compounds. We show how molecular mechanics can be successfully applied to a wide variety of inorganic systems.