Decoding chemical information from vibrational spectroscopy data: Local vibrational mode theory

E Kraka, W Zou, Y Tao - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Modern vibrational spectroscopy is more than just an analytical tool. Information about the
electronic structure of a molecule, the strength of its bonds, and its conformational flexibility …

The local vibrational mode theory and its place in the vibrational spectroscopy arena

E Kraka, M Quintano, HW La Force… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This Feature Article starts highlighting some recent experimental and theoretical advances
in the field of IR and Raman spectroscopy, giving a taste of the breadth and dynamics of this …

Cleavage of an aromatic C–C bond in ferrocene by insertion of an iridium nitrido nitrogen atom

C Schiller, D Sieh, N Lindenmaier… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The intermolecular cleavage of C–C bonds is a rare event. Herein, we report on a late
transition-metal terminal nitrido complex, which upon oxidation undergoes insertion of the …

[HTML][HTML] Featuring a new computational protocol for the estimation of intensity and overall quantum yield in lanthanide chelates with applications to Eu (III) mercapto …

RT Moura Jr, M Quintano, CV Santos-Jr… - Optical Materials: X, 2022 - Elsevier
Computational studies on luminescent properties of lanthanides chelates are important for
the pre-synthetic design of new luminescent materials. However, the development of suited …

LModeA-nano: A pymol plugin for calculating bond strength in solids, surfaces, and molecules via local vibrational mode analysis

Y Tao, W Zou, S Nanayakkara… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The analysis of chemical bonding in crystal structures and surfaces is an important research
topic in theoretical chemistry. In this work, we present a PyMOL plugin, named LModeA …

Capturing individual hydrogen bond strengths in ices via periodic local vibrational mode theory: Beyond the lattice energy picture

S Nanayakkara, Y Tao, E Kraka - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Local stretching force constants derived from periodic local vibrational modes at the vdW-
DF2 density functional level have been employed to quantify the intrinsic hydrogen bond …

CO bonding in hexa‐and pentacoordinate carboxy‐neuroglobin: A quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics and local vibrational mode study

M Freindorf, AAA Delgado… - Journal of Computational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present a comprehensive investigation on the different role of CO in carboxyneuroglobin
(1) as ligand of the heme group in the active site forming a bond with the heme iron and (2) …

[HTML][HTML] On the nature of inter-anion coinage bonds

J Li, Q Feng, C Wang, Y Mo - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
To explore the binding energy profiles and elucidate the bonding nature in counter-intuitive
anion⋯ anion coinage bonds (CiBs), thirty-one complexes were constructed, and the inter …

Pas de Deux of an NO Couple: Synchronous Photoswitching from a Double‐Linear to a Double‐Bent Ru(NO)2 Core under Nitrosyl Charge Conservation

A Hasil, D Beck, D Schröder, S Pillet… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The {Ru (NO) 2} 10 dinitrosylruthenium complex [Ru (NO) 2 (PPh3) 2](1) shows
photo‐induced linkage isomerism (PLI) of a special kind: the two NO ligands switch, on …

Characterizing the Metal–Ligand Bond Strength via Vibrational Spectroscopy: The Metal–Ligand Electronic Parameter (MLEP)

E Kraka, M Freindorf - New Directions in the Modeling of Organometallic …, 2020 - Springer
The field of organometallic chemistry has tremendously grown over the past decades and
become an integral part of many areas of chemistry and beyond. Organometallic …