Environmental mercury chemistry–in silico

A Asaduzzaman, D Riccardi, AT Afaneh… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Mercury (Hg) is a global environmental contaminant. Major anthropogenic
sources of Hg emission include gold mining and the burning of fossil fuels. Once deposited …

Fluorescence enhancement/quenching based on metal orbital control: computational studies of a 6-thienyllumazine-based mercury sensor

AT Afaneh, G Schreckenbach - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - ACS Publications
To understand the sensing behaviors of molecular fluorescent probes, lumazine (Lm) and 6-
thienyllumazine (TLm) and their complexation with metal (II) ions ([(L) n M (H2O) m] 2+, M …

Effect of methylmercury binding on the peroxide-reducing potential of cysteine and selenocysteine

A Madabeni, PA Nogara, M Bortoli, JBT Rocha… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Methylmercury (CH3Hg+) binding to catalytically fundamental cysteine and selenocysteine
of peroxide-reducing enzymes has long been postulated as the origin of its toxicological …

Construction of a Thermally Stable Low-HgCl2 Catalyst via Chalcogen Bonding and Its Enhanced Activity in Acetylene Hydrochlorination

S Sun, H Xu, Y Fan, Z Liu, Q Hong… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The polyvinylchloride industry is an important mercury emission source derived from the
decomposition of commercial activated carbon-supported mercuric chloride (HgCl2/AC, with …

Chalcogen–mercury bond formation and disruption in model Rabenstein's reactions: A computational analysis

A Madabeni, M Dalla Tiezza, FB Omage… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Methylmercury is a highly toxic compound and human exposure is mainly related to
consumption of polluted fish and seafood. The inactivation of thiol‐based enzymes …

Binary and Ternary Colloidal Cu‐Sn‐Te Nanocrystals for Thermoelectric Thin Films

D Yin, C Dun, H Zhang, Z Fu, X Gao, X Wang, DJ Singh… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in copper chalcogenide‐based nanocrystals (NCs), copper sulfide, and
copper selenide derived nanostructures, have drawn considerable attention. However …

Removal of mercury from the environment: a quantum-chemical study with the normalized elimination of the small component method

W Zou, M Filatov, D Atwood, D Cremer - Inorganic Chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
1, 3-Benzenediamidoethanethiolatemercury [BDT-Hg or BD (S)-Hg] and its derivatives are
investigated utilizing the Dirac exact relativistic normalized elimination of the small …

Development of diselenide-based fluorogenic system for the selective and sensitive detection of the Hg (II) in aqueous media

GS Malankar, DS Shelar, RJ Butcher… - Dalton Transactions, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Mercury (II) is highly toxic thus the selective and sensitive detection of Hg (II) is important.
This research article deals with the synthesis and characterization of the fluorogenic system …

A cycloruthenated complex: Detecting Hg2+ by Hg2+‐promoted coordination switch and Cu2+ by coordination

C Xu, K Du, Y Wu, L Tan, X Li - Applied Organometallic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A new cycloruthenated complex Ru1 with a ditopic thienyl–NHC ligand has been designed
to recognize Hg2+ by a blue shift in absorption and evident solution color change in …

Theoretical Study of the Formation of Mercury (Hg2+) Complexes in Solution Using an Explicit Solvation Shell in Implicit Solvent Calculations

AT Afaneh, G Schreckenbach… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The structures and harmonic vibrational frequencies of water clusters (H2O) n, n= 1–10,
have been computed using the M06-L/, B3LYP/, and CAM-BLYP/cc-pVTZ levels of theories …