Quantum mechanical tunneling is essential to understanding chemical reactivity

PR Schreiner - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
Quantum mechanical tunneling is a consequence of the wave nature of particles that implies
that a particle can penetrate a potential energy barrier even though there is insufficient …

Temperature coefficient (Q10) and its applications in biological systems: Beyond the Arrhenius theory

KC Mundim, S Baraldi, HG Machado, FMC Vieira - Ecological Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
The Q 10 temperature coefficient, which is widely used in scientific literature, is a measure of
the temperature sensitivity of chemical reaction rates or biological processes. However, the …

Kinetics of sulfur trioxide reaction with water vapor to form atmospheric sulfuric acid

B Long, Y **a, YQ Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although experimental methods can be used to obtain the quantitative kinetics of
atmospheric reactions, experimental data are often limited to a narrow temperature range …

Quantitative Kinetics of HO2 Reactions with Aldehydes in the Atmosphere: High-Order Dynamic Correlation, Anharmonicity, and Falloff Effects Are All Important

B Long, Y **a, DG Truhlar - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Kinetics provides the fundamental parameters for elucidating sources and sinks of key
atmospheric species and for atmospheric modeling more generally. Obtaining quantitative …

Unusual chemical processes in interstellar chemistry: past and present

E Herbst - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The chemistry that occurs in interstellar clouds consists of both gas-phase processes and
reactions on the surfaces of dust grains, the latter particularly on and in water-dominated ice …

TorsiFlex: an automatic generator of torsional conformers. Application to the twenty proteinogenic amino acids

D Ferro-Costas, I Mosquera-Lois… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
In this work, we introduce TorsiFlex, a user-friendly software written in Python 3 and
designed to find all the torsional conformers of flexible acyclic molecules in an automatic …

Pilgrim: A thermal rate constant calculator and a chemical kinetics simulator

D Ferro-Costas, DG Truhlar… - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pilgrim is a program written in Python and designed to use direct dynamics in the calculation
of thermal rate constants of chemical reactions by the variational transition state theory …

The GRETOBAPE gas-phase reaction network: the importance of being exothermic

L Tinacci, S Ferrada-Chamorro… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The gas-phase reaction networks are the backbone of astrochemical models. However, due
to their complexity and nonlinear impact on the astrochemical modeling, they can be the first …

Gas-phase reactivity of CH 3 OH toward OH at interstellar temperatures (11.7–177.5 K): Experimental and theoretical study

AJ Ocaña, S Blázquez, A Potapov… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The reactivity of methanol (CH3OH) toward the hydroxyl (OH) radical was investigated in the
temperature range 11.7–177.5 K using the CRESU (French acronym for Reaction Kinetics in …

Constrained nuclear-electronic orbital transition state theory using energy surfaces with nuclear quantum effects

Z Chen, J Zheng, DG Truhlar… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen-atom transfer is crucial in a myriad of chemical and biological processes, yet the
accurate and efficient description of hydrogen-atom transfer reactions and kinetic isotope …