Origins of complex solvent effects on chemical reactivity and computational tools to investigate them: a review

JJ Varghese, SH Mushrif - Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Solvents are crucial components in specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries and in
electrochemical and photoelectrochemical processes, and are increasingly being used in …

Is novelty predictable?

C Fannjiang, J Listgarten - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Machine learning–based design has gained traction in the sciences, most notably in the
design of small molecules, materials, and proteins, with societal applications ranging from …

Effect of collective dynamics and anharmonicity on entropy in heterogenous catalysis: Building the case for advanced molecular simulations

G Collinge, SF Yuk, MT Nguyen, MS Lee… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a perspective on the computational determination of entropy and its effects and
consequences on heterogeneous catalysis. Special attention is paid to the role of …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid-phase modeling in heterogeneous catalysis

M Saleheen, A Heyden - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
The notion that solvents can affect the chemical reactivity has been prevalent in the
homogeneous catalysis community, going back as far as 1863. 1 Remarkable changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Density functional theory study of the electrochemical interface between a Pt electrode and an aqueous electrolyte using an implicit solvent method

S Sakong, M Naderian, K Mathew… - The Journal of chemical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We present a computational study of the interface of a Pt electrode and an aqueous
electrolyte employing semi-empirical dispersion corrections and an implicit solvent model …

Solvation free energies for periodic surfaces: comparison of implicit and explicit solvation models

SN Steinmann, P Sautet, C Michel - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The evaluation of solvation energies is a great challenge. We focus here on an organic
molecule chemisorbed at a metal–liquid interface, as a prototypical system, essential in …

Adsorption energies of oxygenated aromatics and organics on rhodium and platinum in aqueous phase

J Akinola, I Barth, BR Goldsmith, N Singh - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Accurately predicting adsorption energies of oxygenated aromatic and organic molecules on
metal catalysts in the aqueous phase is challenging despite its relevance to many catalytic …

Solvation free energies and adsorption energies at the metal/water interface from hybrid quantum-mechanical/molecular mechanics simulations

P Clabaut, B Schweitzer, AW Gotz… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Modeling adsorption at metal/water interfaces is a cornerstone toward an improved
understanding in a variety of fields from heterogeneous catalysis to corrosion. We propose …

[HTML][HTML] The application of QM/MM simulations in heterogeneous catalysis

GA Bramley, OT Beynon, PV Stishenko… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The QM/MM simulation method is provenly efficient for the simulation of biological systems,
where an interplay of extensive environment and delicate local interactions drives a process …

Liquid-phase effects on adsorption processes in heterogeneous catalysis

M Zare, MS Saleheen, N Singh, MJ Uline, M Faheem… - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aqueous solvation free energies of adsorption have recently been measured for phenol
adsorption on Pt (111). Endergonic solvent effects of∼ 1 eV suggest solvents dramatically …