Multifunctional biocomposites based on cross-linked Shrimp waste-derived chitosan modified Zn2+@ Calcium apatite for the removal of methyl orange and …

RELK Billah, A Zaghloul, NA Oladoja… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, the cross-linked chitosan composite modified with zinc-doped hydroxyapatite
was synthesized and grown in its polymer matrix. The final composite material was tested for …

Removal of methylene blue using Bombax buonopozense bark: factorial experimental design, DFT, and molecular dynamics studies

Y Achour, L Bahsis, A EL Kassimi… - Biomass Conversion …, 2023 - Springer
The removal of methylene blue (MB) as a cationic dye from an aqueous medium, by
adsorption on Bombax buonopozense bark (BBb), was achieved using a complete two-level …

Facile and Eco-friendly Synthesis of Bi2O3 Nanoparticles: Effect of Templating Agents on Morphology and Photocatalytic performance

S Essenni, F Baragh, R El Kaim Billah… - Journal of Inorganic and …, 2024 - Springer
A novel soft-chemical synthesis method was used to synthesis nanostructured α-Bi 2 O 3.
The method uses chitosan (Cs) and sodium alginate (Alg) as directing agents, representing …

Predicting chemical reactivity from the charge density through gradient bundle analysis: moving beyond Fukui functions

A Morgenstern, TR Wilson… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Predicting chemical reactivity is a major goal of chemistry. Toward this end, atom condensed
Fukui functions of conceptual density functional theory have been used to predict which …

Philicity and Fugality Scales for Organic Reactions

R Ormazábal-Toledo, R Contreras - Advances in Chemistry, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Theoretical scales of reactivity and selectivity are important tools to explain and to predict
reactivity patterns, including reaction mechanisms. The main achievement of these efforts …

Synthesis of substituted sumanenes by aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions

BB Shrestha, S Karanjit, G Panda… - Chemistry …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Electrophilic substitution reactions of sumanene were studied. Mono-, di-, and trisubstituted
sumanenes were selectively prepared with the separation of all regioisomers. The …

Fast coupling and detoxification of aqueous halobenzoquinones by extracellular nucleophiles: The relationship among structures, pathways and toxicity

C Zhong, H Zhao, H Cao, CH Huang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Halobenzoquinones (HBQs), a metabolism of pentachlorophenol, arouse increasing
concern for their high toxicity. This paper systematically studied the influences of 31 …

Natural orbital Fukui function and application in understanding cycloaddition reaction mechanisms

P Zhou, PW Ayers, S Liu, T Li - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A new condensed form of the Fukui function, the natural orbital Fukui function (NOFF), is
proposed and derived from natural bond orbital occupancy. It is defined as the change in …

Atom and Bond Fukui Functions and Matrices: A Hirshfeld‐I Atoms‐in‐Molecule Approach

OB Oña, O De Clercq, DR Alcoba, A Torre… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Fukui function is often used in its atom‐condensed form by isolating it from the
molecular Fukui function using a chosen weight function for the atom in the molecule …

On the intrinsic reactivity of highly potent trypanocidal cruzain inhibitors

V Bonatto, PHJ Batista, L Cianni, D De Vita… - RSC Medicinal …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The cysteine protease cruzipain is considered to be a validated target for therapeutic
intervention in the treatment of Chagas disease. Hence, peptidomimetic cruzipain inhibitors …