A molecular twist on hydrophobicity

S Gómez, N Rojas-Valencia, SA Gómez… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A thorough exploration of the molecular basis for hydrophobicity with a comprehensive set of
theoretical tools and an extensive set of organic solvent S/water binary systems is discussed …

Selective Recycling of Spent Lithium‐Ion Batteries Enables Toward Aqueous Zn‐Ion Batteries Cathode

XW Lv, J Lin, XD Zhang, QR Huang… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Effective selective recycling of spent lithium‐ion batteries (S‐LIBs) and giving recycled
products a “second life” are crucial for advancing energy supply circularity, environmental …

Interactions and reactivity in crystalline intermediates of mechanochemical cyclorhodation reactions

S Gómez, S Gómez, N Rojas-Valencia… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
There is experimental evidence that solid mixtures of the rhodium dimer [Cp* RhCl2] 2 and
benzo [h] quinoline (BHQ) produce two different polymorphic molecular cocrystals called 4α …

An efficient and robust procedure to calculate absorption spectra of aqueous charged species applied to NO 2−

L Uribe, S Gómez, T Giovannini, F Egidi… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Accurate calculation of absorption spectra of aqueous NO2− requires rigorously sampling
the quantum potential energy surfaces for microsolvation of NO2− with at least five explicit …

Water maintains the UV–vis spectral features during the insertion of anionic naproxen and ibuprofen into model cell membranes

N Rojas-Valencia, S Gómez, T Giovannini… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
UV–vis spectra of anionic ibuprofen and naproxen in a model lipid bilayer of the cell
membrane are investigated using computational techniques in combination with a …

Cation⋯ anion bonding interactions in 1–Ethyl–3–Methylimidazolium based ionic liquids

E Correa, D Montaño, A Restrepo - Chemical Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
The potential energy surfaces for the interactions between the [EMIM]+ cation (1–ethyl–3–
methylimidazolium) with the series of acetate, bromide, and tetrafluoroborate anions are …

Encapsulation of charged halogens by the 5 12 water cage

S Gómez, E Flórez, N Acelas, C Cappelli… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
This study focuses on the encapsulation of the entire series of halides by the 512 cage of
twenty water molecules and on the characterization of water to water and water to anion …

A combined QTAIM/IRI topological analysis of the effect of axial/equatorial positions of NH2 and CN substituents in the [(PY5Me2) MoO]+ complex

S Kenouche, JI Martínez-Araya - Journal of Molecular Graphics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
By means of the Interaction Region Indicator (IRI) and Quantum Theory of Atoms in
Molecules (QTAIM), the influence exerted by NH 2 (amino) and CN (cyano) as electron …

Theoretical investigation of the cooperative effect of solvent: a case study

CM Porto, LC Santana, NH Morgon - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The effect of solvent was investigated at the DFT level, M06-2X/6-31++ G (d, p), for the
implicit, namely the universal solvent model based on solute electron density (SMD) and …

Dissecting Bonding Interactions in Cysteine Dimers

S Gómez, S Gómez, J David, D Guerra, C Cappelli… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neutral (n) and zwitterionic (z) forms of cysteine monomers are combined in this work to
extensively explore the potential energy surfaces for the formation of cysteine dimers in …