very much because of their crucial role in various fields of the environmental researches.
Their importance lies in the fact that they are able to be bonded to a variety of metals in
addition to iron. A theoretical study on the structures of desferrithiocin siderphore
coordinated to Mg 2+, Al 3+, Ca 2+, Mn 2+, Fe 3+, Co 2+, Ni 2+, Cu 2+ and Zn 2+ metal ions
was carried out, using the CAM-B3LYP/6-31G (d) level of the theory in the water. In order to …