Effective strategy for polymer synthesis: Multicomponent reactions and click polymerization

C Wang, B Yu, W Li, W Zou, H Cong, Y Shen - Materials Today Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The rational selection of organic reactions in polymer synthesis is an important research
content of polymer science. In recent years, multicomponent reaction as an efficient and …

Hydrophobic functionalization reactions of structured cellulose nanomaterials: Mechanisms, kinetics and in silico multi-scale models

A Oberlintner, B Likozar, U Novak - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanoscale-interfaced cellulose nanomaterials are extracted from polysaccharides, which
are widely available in nature, biocompatible and biodegradable. Moreover, the latter have …

Investigation of Huisgen's Noble metal catalyst click reaction mechanism for the synthesis of 1, 4-disubstituted 1, 2, 3-triazoles

AA Khairbek, MI Al-Zaben, R Puchta, MAAH Badawi… - Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current study delves into the mechanistic intricacies of azide-alkyne cycloaddition
reactions (MAAC) catalyzed by transition metals (M= Cu, Ag, and Au) bound to N …

Nitrene formation is the first step of the thermal and photochemical decomposition reactions of organic azides

J Soto, M Algarra, D Peláez - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, the decomposition of a prototypical azide, isopropyl azide, both in the ground
and excited states, has been investigated through the use of multiconfigurational CASSCF …

Assessing the catalytic potential of novel halogen substituted carbene NHC (F, Cl, Br, I) catalysts in [3+ 2] cycloaddition reactions: A computational investigation

AA Khairbek, MAAH Badawi, AY Alzahrani… - Dalton …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
This study investigated the catalytic behavior of NHC-X ligands (X= F, Cl, Br, I) in
cycloaddition reactions, focusing on both mononuclear and binuclear pathways. Using NCI …

Enhanced sampling simulations on transition-metal-catalyzed organic reactions: Zirconocene-catalyzed propylene polymerization and Sharpless epoxidation

X Han, TY Sun, YI Yang, J Zhang, J Qiu… - CCS …, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
The bond breaking and forming in chemical reactions is a typical rare event, which is one of
the difficult problems in molecular dynamics simulations. Numerous enhanced sampling …

Silver-and gold-catalyzed azide− alkyne cycloaddition by functionalized NHC-based polynuclear catalysts: Computational investigation and mechanistic insights

AA Khairbek, MAAH Badawi, AYA Alzahrani… - Molecular …, 2025 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the catalytic efficiency of Au (I), Ag (I), and Cu (I) complexes in the
azide‒alkyne cycloaddition (AAC) reaction through density functional theory (DFT) …

Probing kinetic and mechanistic features of bulk azide–alkyne cycloaddition

A Galukhin, R Aleshin, R Nosov… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Bulk azide–alkyne cycloaddition between 1-azidodecane and phenyl propargyl ether is
studied in detail under the conditions of linear heating. The reaction mechanism involves …

Enhanced Sampling Simulation Reveals How Solvent Influences Chirogenesis of the Intra-Molecular Diels–Alder Reaction

X Han, J Zhang, YI Yang, Z Zhang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The timescale involved in chemical reactions is quite often beyond that of normal molecular
dynamics simulations. Here, we combine metadynamics with selective integrated tempering …

Insights into the Thermal and Photochemical Reaction Mechanisms of Azidoacetonitrile. Spectroscopic and MS‐CASPT2 Calculations

M Algarra, J Soto - ChemPhysChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This work studies the photochemical and thermal decompositions of azidoacetonitrile
(N3CH2CN) from both the experimental and theoretical points of view. The data of the …