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 …

[HTML][HTML] Uranium: the nuclear fuel cycle and beyond

BMT Costa Peluzo, E Kraka - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the recent developments regarding the use of uranium as nuclear
fuel, including recycling and health aspects, elucidated from a chemical point of view, ie …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum mechanical assessment of protein–ligand hydrogen bond strength patterns: insights from semiempirical tight-binding and local vibrational mode …

A Madushanka, RT Moura Jr, N Verma… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hydrogen bonds (HB) s are the most abundant motifs in biological systems. They play a key
role in determining protein–ligand binding affinity and selectivity. We designed two …

Linear versus Bent Uranium (II) Metallocenes─ A Local Vibrational Mode Study

BMTC Peluzo, MZ Makoś, RT Moura Jr… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Uranium metallocenes have recently attracted attention driven by their use as catalysts in
organometallic synthesis. In addition to bent U (IV) and U (III), an U (II) metallocene [(η5-C5 i …

Noncovalent π Interactions in Mutated Aquomet-Myoglobin Proteins: A QM/MM and Local Vibrational Mode Study

JJ Antonio, E Kraka - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein dynamics and function is strongly connected to the energy flow taking place.
Myoglobin (Mb) and its mutations are ideal systems to study the process of vibrational …

Automatic generation of local vibrational mode parameters: from small to large molecules and QM/MM systems

RT Moura Jr, M Quintano, JJ Antonio… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
LModeAGen, a new protocol for the automatic determination of a nonredundant, complete
set of local vibrational modes is reported, which is based on chemical graph concepts …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogen bonding in natural and unnatural base pairs—a local vibrational mode study

N Beiranvand, M Freindorf, E Kraka - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this work hydrogen bonding in a diverse set of 36 unnatural and the three natural Watson
Crick base pairs adenine (A)–thymine (T), adenine (A)–uracil (U) and guanine (G)–cytosine …

Chemical bonding in Uranium‐based materials: A local vibrational mode case study of CsUOCl and UCl crystals

F Bodo, A Erba, E Kraka… - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Local Vibrational Mode Analysis, initially applied to diverse molecular systems,
was extended to periodic systems in 2019. This work introduces an enhanced version of the …

[HTML][HTML] Exceptionally long covalent CC bonds—A local vibrational mode study

AAA Delgado, A Humason, R Kalescky, M Freindorf… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
For decades one has strived to synthesize a compound with the longest covalent C− C bond
applying predominantly steric hindrance and/or strain to achieve this goal. On the other …

The pKa rule in light of local mode force constants

M Quintano, RT Moura Jr, E Kraka - Chemical Physics Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
The prediction of cocrystal or molecular salt formation from organic acid and base
constituents in solution usually relies on the pK a rule, an empirical protocol based on the …