Multifaceted view on the mechanism of a photochemical deracemization reaction

RJ Kutta, J Großkopf, N van Staalduinen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Upon irradiation in the presence of a chiral benzophenone catalyst (5 mol%), a racemic
mixture of a given chiral imidazolidine-2, 4-dione (hydantoin) can be converted almost …

[HTML][HTML] CREST—A program for the exploration of low-energy molecular chemical space

P Pracht, S Grimme, C Bannwarth, F Bohle… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Conformer–rotamer sampling tool (CREST) is an open-source program for the efficient and
automated exploration of molecular chemical space. Originally developed in Pracht et …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines to calculate non-radiative deactivation mechanisms of ruthenium tris (bipyridine) derivatives

D Hernández-Castillo, I Eder, L González - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
The applicability of ruthenium tris (bipyridine) complexes in fields like photoactivated
chemotherapy or photocatalysis requires in-depth understanding of their excited state …

High‐throughput screening of spin states for transition metal complexes with spin‐polarized extended tight‐binding methods

H Neugebauer, B Bädorf, S Ehlert… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The semiempirical GFNn‐xTB (n= 1, 2) tight‐binding methods are extended with a spin‐
dependent energy term (spin‐polarization), enabling the fast and efficient screening of …

Finding excited-state minimum energy crossing points on a budget: non-self-consistent tight-binding methods

P Pracht, C Bannwarth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The automated exploration and identification of minimum energy conical intersections
(MECIs) is a valuable computational strategy for the study of photochemical processes. Due …

Exploring energy landscapes for solid-state systems with variable cells at the extended tight-binding level

P Pracht, JWR Morgan, DJ Wales - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The design of novel materials requires a theoretical understanding of dynamical processes
in the solid state, including polymorphic transitions and associated pathways. The …

Nonadiabatic Exciton Dynamics and Energy Gradients in the Framework of FMO-LC-TDDFTB

R Einsele, R Mitrić - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2024 - ACS Publications
We introduce a novel methodology for simulating the excited-state dynamics of extensive
molecular aggregates in the framework of the long-range corrected time-dependent density …

JCTC Early Career Board Selects

HGA Burton, SS Dong, S Ghosh, B Gu… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
JCTC's recognition of early career scientists and their vision. To broaden such recognition,
the ECB, in collaboration with the editorial board of JCTC, has organized this …

Nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics and energy gradients in the framework of FMO-LC-TDDFTB

R Einsele, R Mitrić - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14174, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce a novel methodology for simulating the excited-state dynamics of extensive
molecular aggregates in the framework of the long-range corrected time-dependent density …

[PDF][PDF] Computational Electrochemistry of 3d Transition Metal Complexes

H Neugebauer - 2024 - d-nb.info
The topic of this thesis is the computational quantum chemical (QC) description of
homogeneous first-row (3d) transition metal (TM) electrocatalysis. This branch of chemistry …