Research applications of the Cambridge structural database (CSD)

FH Allen, R Taylor - Chemical Society Reviews, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystal structure data are of fundamental importance in a wide spectrum of scientific
activities. This tutorial review summarises the principal application areas, so far, for the data …

Development and testing of a general amber force field

J Wang, RM Wolf, JW Caldwell… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We describe here a general Amber force field (GAFF) for organic molecules. GAFF is
designed to be compatible with existing Amber force fields for proteins and nucleic acids …

Retrieval of crystallographically-derived molecular geometry information

IJ Bruno, JC Cole, M Kessler, J Luo… - Journal of chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
The crystallographically determined bond length, valence angle, and torsion angle
information in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) has many uses. However …

Nitrile-functionalized pyridinium ionic liquids: Synthesis, characterization, and their application in carbon− carbon coupling reactions

D Zhao, Z Fei, TJ Geldbach, R Scopelliti… - Journal of the …, 2004 - ACS Publications
A series of relatively low-cost ionic liquids, based on the N-butyronitrile pyridinium cation
[C3CNpy]+, designed to improve catalyst retention, have been prepared and evaluated in …

Toward crystal structure prediction for conformationally flexible molecules: the headaches illustrated by aspirin

C Ouvrard, SL Price - Crystal Growth & Design, 2004 - ACS Publications
A crystal structure prediction study was carried out on aspirin, based on an analysis of its
gas phase conformers and multiple searches for minima in the lattice energy with the …

Thorium (IV) and Uranium (IV) Ketimide Complexes Prepared by Nitrile Insertion into Actinide− Alkyl and− Aryl Bonds

KC Jantunen, CJ Burns, I Castro-Rodriguez… - …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Migratory insertion of benzonitrile into both An− C bonds of the bis (alkyl) and bis (aryl)
complexes (C5Me5) 2AnR2 yields the actinide ketimido complexes (C5Me5) 2An [− NC …

Synthetic and Spectroscopic Investigation of N‐Acylated Sulfoximines

CPR Hackenberger, G Raabe… - Chemistry–A European …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
N‐Acylated sulfoximines display unique chemical properties. Various derivatives have been
synthesized and investigated by NMR and IR spectroscopy. The results of these studies …

An experimental and theoretical search for polymorphs of barbituric acid: the challenges of even limited conformational flexibility

TC Lewis, DA Tocher, SL Price - Crystal growth & design, 2004 - ACS Publications
An experimental study of barbituric acid found a new P 21/c polymorph with two
conformations of barbituric acid in the asymmetric unit, one molecule adopting an envelope …

Xanthones from a microfungus of the genus Xylaria

PC Healy, A Hocking, N Tran-Dinh, JI Pitt, RG Shivas… - Phytochemistry, 2004 - Elsevier
Chemical investigations of a microfungus Xylaria sp. isolated from the Australian rainforest
tree Glochidion ferdinandi have afforded two new natural products, 2-hydroxy-6-methyl-8 …

Electron-rich piano-stool iron σ-acetylides. Theoretical and phenomenological investigation of electronic substituent effects in iron (II) acetylides

K Costuas, F Paul, L Toupet, JF Halet… - Organometallics, 2004 - ACS Publications
The electronic structures of the electron-rich Fe (II) acetylide complexes (η2-dppe)(η5-
C5Me5) Fe (C⋮ CC6H4-X)(1a− j: dppe= 1, 2-bis (diphenylphosphino) ethane; X= NO2, CN …