Best‐practice DFT protocols for basic molecular computational chemistry

M Bursch, JM Mewes, A Hansen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, many chemical investigations are supported by routine calculations of molecular
structures, reaction energies, barrier heights, and spectroscopic properties. The lion's share …

Carbon nanodots from an in silico perspective

F Mocci, L de Villiers Engelbrecht, C Olla… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanodots (CNDs) are the latest and most shining rising stars among
photoluminescent (PL) nanomaterials. These carbon-based surface-passivated …

Automated molecular cluster growing for explicit solvation by efficient force field and tight binding methods

S Spicher, C Plett, P Pracht, A Hansen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
An automated and broadly applicable workflow for the description of solvation effects in an
explicit manner is introduced. This method, termed quantum cluster growth (QCG), is based …

GEOM, energy-annotated molecular conformations for property prediction and molecular generation

S Axelrod, R Gomez-Bombarelli - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning (ML) outperforms traditional approaches in many molecular
design tasks. ML models usually predict molecular properties from a 2D chemical graph or a …

Hybrid machine learning approach to predict the site selectivity of iridium-catalyzed arene borylation

E Caldeweyher, M Elkin, G Gheibi… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The borylation of aryl and heteroaryl C–H bonds is valuable for the site-selective
functionalization of C–H bonds in complex molecules. Iridium catalysts ligated by bipyridine …

Dataset for quantum-mechanical exploration of conformers and solvent effects in large drug-like molecules

L Medrano Sandonas, D Van Rompaey, A Fallani… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
We here introduce the Aquamarine (AQM) dataset, an extensive quantum-mechanical (QM)
dataset that contains the structural and electronic information of 59,783 low-and high-energy …

Silmitasertib (CX-4945), a clinically used CK2-kinase inhibitor with additional effects on GSK3β and DYRK1A kinases: A structural perspective

P Grygier, K Pustelny, J Nowak, P Golik… - Journal of medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A clinical casein kinase 2 inhibitor, CX-4945 (silmitasertib), shows significant affinity toward
the DYRK1A and GSK3β kinases, involved in down syndrome phenotypes, Alzheimer's …

Photochemical deracemization of primary allene amides by triplet energy transfer: a combined synthetic and theoretical study

M Plaza, J Großkopf, S Breitenlechner… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The photochemical deracemization of 2, 4-disubstituted 2, 3-butadienamides (allene
amides) was investigated both experimentally and theoretically. The reaction was catalyzed …

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 …