Coherence in Chemistry: Foundations and Frontiers

JD Schultz, JL Yuly, EA Arsenault, K Parker… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Coherence refers to correlations in waves. Because matter has a wave-particle nature, it is
unsurprising that coherence has deep connections with the most contemporary issues in …

Multifaceted aspects of charge transfer

JB Derr, J Tamayo, JA Clark, M Morales… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Charge transfer and charge transport are by far among the most important processes for
sustaining life on Earth and for making our modern ways of living possible. Involving multiple …

Rapid Prediction of Energy Level Alignment and Conductance of Single‐Molecule Junctions Through Intramolecular Dipole Moment

Y Zhang, S Yang, Y Yang, JC Ren… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
How substituents affect the conductance of single‐molecule junctions has been a subject of
ongoing debate. Here, a comparative study on the transport properties across a broader …

Nonexponential length dependence of molecular conductance in acene-based molecular wires

J Valdiviezo, P Rocha, A Polakovsky, JL Palma - ACS sensors, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the nonresonant regime, molecular conductance decays exponentially with distance,
limiting the fabrication of efficient molecular semiconductors at the nanoscale. In this work …

Electronic transport properties in the stable phase of a cumulene/B 7/cumulene molecular bridge investigated using density functional theory and a tight-binding …

M Qasemnazhand, F Khoeini… - New Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we first obtain the single-band tight-binding parameters of a B7 cluster in terms
of matching the HOMO–LUMO levels obtained from density functional theory (DFT). Next …

Twistable dipolar aryl rings as electric field actuated conformational molecular switches

KJ Lozano, R Santiago, J Ribas-Arino… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to control the chemical conformation of a system via external stimuli is a
promising route for develo** molecular switches. For eventual deployment as viable sub …

Electronic spectra of jet-cooled 1, 4-bis (phenylethynyl) benzene: Strength in π-electron conjugation and two large-amplitude torsional motions

R Suzuki, K Chiba, S Tanaka… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
To spectroscopically qualify strength in the π-electron conjugation, the electronic spectra of
jet-cooled 1, 4-bis (phenylethynyl) benzene (BPEB) in the region of the transition to the …

Synthesis, electrochemistry, and optical properties of highly conjugated alkynyl-ferrocenes and-biferrocenes

TLR Bennett, LA Wilkinson, JMA Lok… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sonogashira reactions are utilized herein to react iodo-ferrocenes and-biferrocenes with
terminal alkyne ligands, functionalized with both pyridine and thioanisole groups. High …

Quantum interference enhances rectification behavior of molecular devices

A Polakovsky, J Showman, J Valdiviezo… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a theoretical and computational work and demonstrate that cross-conjugated
molecules with electron-donating groups are efficient rectifiers with high conductance. The …

Symmetry controlled photo-selection and charge separation in butadiyne-bridged donor–bridge–acceptor compounds

X Li, J Valdiviezo, SD Banziger, P Zhang… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Electron transfer (ET) in donor–bridge–acceptor (DBA) compounds depends strongly on the
structural and electronic properties of the bridge. Among the bridges that support donor …