Theory and simulation of the ultrafast double-bond isomerization of biological chromophores

S Gozem, HL Luk, I Schapiro, M Olivucci - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast processes in light-absorbing proteins have been implicated in the primary step in
the light-to-energy conversion and the initialization of photoresponsive biological functions …

From a one-mode to a multi-mode understanding of conical intersection mediated ultrafast organic photochemical reactions

Y Boeije, M Olivucci - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last few decades, conical intersections (CoIns) have grown from theoretical
curiosities into common mechanistic features of photochemical reactions, whose function is …

OpenMolcas: From source code to insight

I Fdez. Galván, M Vacher, A Alavi… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this Article we describe the OpenMolcas environment and invite the computational
chemistry community to collaborate. The open-source project already includes a large …

[HTML][HTML] Modern quantum chemistry with [Open] Molcas

F Aquilante, J Autschbach, A Baiardi… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
MOLCAS/OpenMolcas is an ab initio electronic structure program providing a large set of
computational methods from Hartree–Fock and density functional theory to various …

Unifying photocycle model for light adaptation and temporal evolution of cation conductance in channelrhodopsin-2

J Kuhne, J Vierock, SA Tennigkeit… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Although channelrhodopsin (ChR) is a widely applied light-activated ion channel, important
properties such as light adaptation, photocurrent inactivation, and alteration of the ion …

Photodissociation mechanisms of major mercury (II) species in the atmospheric chemical cycle of mercury

A Francés‐Monerris, J Carmona‐García… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mercury is a contaminant of global concern that is transported throughout the atmosphere as
elemental mercury Hg0 and its oxidized forms HgI and HgII. The efficient gas‐phase …

Mechanochemical borylation of aryldiazonium salts; merging light and ball milling

JG Hernández - Beilstein journal of organic chemistry, 2017 - beilstein-journals.org
Merging of photo-and mechanochemical activation permitted studying the role of eosin Y in
the borylation of aryldiazonium salts in a ball mill. Simultaneous neat grinding/irradiation of …

Ultrafast dynamics of encapsulated molecules reveals new insight on the photoisomerization mechanism for azobenzenes

CJ Otolski, AM Raj, V Ramamurthy… - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Spatial confinement can have a profound impact on the dynamics of chemical reactions,
especially for isomerization reactions that involve large-amplitude structural rearrangement …

An optical tweezers platform for single molecule force spectroscopy in organic solvents

JW Black, M Kamenetska, Z Ganim - Nano letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Observation at the single molecule level has been a revolutionary tool for molecular
biophysics and materials science, but single molecule studies of solution-phase chemistry …

An Algorithm Predicting the Optimal Mechanical Response of Electronic Energy Difference

A Jodra, C García-Iriepa, LM Frutos - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The use of mechanical forces at the molecular level has been shown to be an interesting
tool for modulating different chemical and physical molecular properties. The so-called …