Quantum chemical investigations on molecular clusters

SR Gadre, SD Yeole, N Sahu - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
A cluster is an aggregate of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a
molecule and a bulk solid. Clusters of a variety of molecules are receiving increasing …

Performance of M06, M06-2X, and M06-HF density functionals for conformationally flexible anionic clusters: M06 functionals perform better than B3LYP for a model …

M Walker, AJA Harvey, A Sen… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present a comparative assessment of the performance of the M06 suite of density
functionals (M06, M06-2X, and M06-HF) against an MP2 benchmark for calculating the …

The σ and π holes. The halogen and tetrel bondings: their nature, importance and chemical, biological and medicinal implications

AM Montana - ChemistrySelect, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The non‐covalent halogen bonding, or simply halogen bonding, is known since last century
and it was slightly explored by several scientists in the fifties. However, the scientific …

Unravelling the Mechanism of the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Acetophenone by [RuX2(diphosphine)(1,2-diamine)] Catalysts

PA Dub, NJ Henson, RL Martin… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The mechanism of catalytic hydrogenation of acetophenone by the chiral complex trans-
[RuCl2 {(S)-binap}{(S, S)-dpen}] and KO-t-C4H9 in propan-2-ol is revised on the basis of …

Defect-induced conductivity anisotropy in MoS monolayers

M Ghorbani-Asl, AN Enyashin, A Kuc, G Seifert… - Physical Review B, 2013 - APS
Various types of defects in MoS 2 monolayers and their influence on the electronic structure
and transport properties have been studied using the density-functional-based tight-binding …

Accurate and efficient quantum chemistry calculations for noncovalent interactions in many-body systems: The XSAPT family of methods

KU Lao, JM Herbert - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2015 - ACS Publications
We present an overview of “XSAPT”, a family of quantum chemistry methods for noncovalent
interactions. These methods combine an efficient, iterative, monomer-based approach to …

Carbon dioxide hydrate growth dynamics and crystallography in pure and saline water

HJ Dongre, N Thakre, AV Palodkar… - Crystal Growth & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
To develop the crucial concepts of clathrate hydrates toward the hydrate-based
technological implications, it is indispensable to comprehend their formation and growth …

Tuning the effective utilization of adsorption sites in La-MOFs via a steric hindrance effect towards enhanced As (III) removal

D You, H Shi, L Yang, P Shao, X Luo, K Yin… - Environmental Science …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The adsorptive removal of highly toxic metal oxyanions such as arsenic from water remains
challenging, and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with structural diversity have been …

Comparison of DFT functionals for prediction of band gap of conjugated polymers and effect of HF exchange term percentage and basis set on the performance

H Arı, Z Büyükmumcu - Computational Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
The band gap of conjugated polymers is a decisive parameter for their usage in various
applications. That is why, the accurate prediction of band gap values is critical in theoretical …

Hydrated Sodium Ion Clusters [Na+(H2O)n (n = 1–6)]: An ab initio Study on Structures and Non-covalent Interaction

P Wang, R Shi, Y Su, L Tang, X Huang… - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Structural, thermodynamic, and vibrational characteristics of water clusters up to six water
molecules incorporating a single sodium ion [Na+ (H2O) n (n= 1–6)] are calculated using a …