Chemical reactivity from an activation strain perspective

P Vermeeren, TA Hamlin, FM Bickelhaupt - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical reactions are ubiquitous in the universe, they are at the core of life, and they are
essential for industrial processes. The drive for a deep understanding of how something …

Quantum chemical methods for the prediction of energetic, physical, and spectroscopic properties of ionic liquids

EI Izgorodina, ZL Seeger, DLA Scarborough… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The accurate prediction of physicochemical properties of condensed systems is a
longstanding goal of theoretical (quantum) chemistry. Ionic liquids comprising entirely of …

Understanding chemical reactivity using the activation strain model

P Vermeeren, SCC van der Lubbe… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding chemical reactivity through the use of state-of-the-art computational
techniques enables chemists to both predict reactivity and rationally design novel reactions …

Rh19: A high-spin super-octahedron cluster

Y Jia, CQ Xu, C Cui, L Geng, H Zhang, YY Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Probing atomic clusters with magic numbers is of supreme importance but challenging in
cluster science. Pronounced stability of a metal cluster often arises from coincident …

Voronoi deformation density (VDD) charges: Assessment of the Mulliken, Bader, Hirshfeld, Weinhold, and VDD methods for charge analysis

C Fonseca Guerra, JW Handgraaf… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We present the Voronoi Deformation Density (VDD) method for computing atomic
charges. The VDD method does not explicitly use the basis functions but calculates the …

Simulating the physical world

HJC Berendsen - Simulating the Physical World, 2004 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The simulation of physical systems requires a simplified, hierarchical approach which
models each level from the atomistic to the macroscopic scale. From quantum mechanics to …

Modeling the amide I bands of small peptides

T la Cour Jansen, AG Dijkstra, TM Watson… - The Journal of …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper different floating oscillator models for describing the amide I band of peptides
and proteins are compared with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Models for the …

Understanding chemistry with the symmetry‐decomposed Voronoi deformation density charge analysis

C Nieuwland, P Vermeeren… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The symmetry‐decomposed Voronoi deformation density (VDD) charge analysis is an
insightful and robust computational tool to aid the understanding of chemical bonding …

[La (η xB x) La]−(x= 7–9): a new class of inverse sandwich complexes

TT Chen, WL Li, J Li, LS Wang - Chemical science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the importance of bulk lanthanide borides, nanoclusters of lanthanide and boron
have rarely been investigated. Here we show that lanthanide–boron binary clusters …

On the nature of actinide–and lanthanide–metal bonds in heterobimetallic compounds

B Vlaisavljevich, P Miró, CJ Cramer… - … A European Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Eleven experimentally characterized complexes containing heterobimetallic bonds between
elements of the f‐block and other elements were examined by quantum chemical …