Halogen bonding: A halogen-centered noncovalent interaction yet to be understood

PR Varadwaj, A Varadwaj, HM Marques - Inorganics, 2019 - mdpi.com
In addition to the underlying basic concepts and early recognition of halogen bonding, this
paper reviews the conflicting views that consistently appear in the area of noncovalent …

Engineering polymers via understanding the effect of anchoring groups for highly stable liquid metal nanoparticles

X Huang, T Xu, A Shen, TP Davis, R Qiao… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Liquid metal nanoparticles (LMNPs) have recently attracted much attention as soft functional
materials for various biorelated applications. Despite the fact that several reports …

The inorganic chemistry of the cobalt corrinoids–an update

HM Marques - Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The inorganic chemistry of the cobalt corrinoids, derivatives of vitamin B 12, is reviewed, with
particular emphasis on equilibrium constants for, and kinetics of, their axial ligand …

Tuning the Kinetic Inertness of Bi3+ Complexes: The Impact of Donor Atoms on Diaza-18-Crown-6 Ligands as Chelators for 213Bi Targeted Alpha Therapy

DJ Fiszbein, V Brown, NA Thiele, JJ Woods… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The radionuclide 213Bi can be applied for targeted α therapy (TAT): a type of nuclear
medicine that harnesses α particles to eradicate cancer cells. To use this radionuclide for …

Geometrical and optical benchmarking of copper guanidine–quinoline complexes: Insights from TD‐DFT and many‐body perturbation theory

A Jesser, M Rohrmüller, WG Schmidt… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We report a comprehensive computational benchmarking of the structural and optical
properties of a bis (chelate) copper (I) guanidine–quinoline complex. Using various (TD‐) …

Analysis of the growth mechanism of hierarchical structure Ni0. 8Co0. 1Mn0. 1 (OH) 2 agglomerates as precursors of LiNi0. 8Co0. 1Mn0. 1O2 in the presence of …

Z Wu, Y Zhou, C Hai, J Zeng, Y Sun, X Ren… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Hierarchical structure Ni 0.8 Co 0.1 Mn 0.1 (OH) 2 agglomerates were formed by
coprecipitation method in the presence of aqueous ammonia in a continuous stirred tank …

Can an entirely negative fluorine in a molecule, viz. perfluorobenzene, interact attractively with the entirely negative site (s) on another molecule (s)? Like liking like!

A Varadwaj, PR Varadwaj, BY Jin - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We present in this study the possibility of the formation of attractive intermolecular
interactions between various entirely negative sites localized on a variety of atoms in …

DFT-B3LYP, NPA-, and QTAIM-Based Study of the Physical Properties of [M(II)(H2O)2(15-crown-5)] (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) Complexes

PR Varadwaj, A Varadwaj… - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A density functional theory study of the structure of the title compounds with the divalent
metal ions in their high-spin ground state, obtained using B3LYP/6-311++ G (d, p) in vacuo …

A topological analysis of the bonding in [M2(CO)10] and [M3(μ-H)3(CO)12] complexes (M = Mn, Tc, Re)

JF Van der Maelen, JA Cabeza - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The M–M, M–H, and M–CO bonding interactions existing in the group 7 transition
metal carbonyl complexes [M 2 (CO) 10] and [M 3 (μ-H) 3 (CO) 12](M= Mn, Tc, Re) have …

Conformational analysis of 18-azacrown-6 and its bonding with late first transition series divalent metals: Insight from DFT combined with NPA and QTAIM analyses

PR Varadwaj, A Varadwaj, GH Peslherbe… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory calculations, together with quantum theory of atoms in molecules
(QTAIM) analyses, have been performed to investigate 18-azacrown-6 complexes of the …