Dan Yang, Hua Zhang, Fengyi Cao, Sijia Chang, Guihao Tan, Lin Ji
{"title":"Urease stabilization in urea–urease–H+ system and its influence on the clock reaction dynamics","authors":"Dan Yang, Hua Zhang, Fengyi Cao, Sijia Chang, Guihao Tan, Lin Ji","doi":"10.1002/kin.21725","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kin.21725","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The inherent autocatalytic kinetics of the urea–urease–H<sup>+</sup> system positions it as a promising candidate for the design of dynamic materials with time-domain programmable functions. Nevertheless, the stability of the enzyme can markedly influence the temporal evolution dynamics of the system and curtail its widespread applicability. This work employs several kinds of enzyme stabilization methods, including chemical cross-linking, physical coating, solvent stabilization, and solvent-physical coating co-modification, to systematically explore the impact of enzyme stabilization on clock reaction dynamics. Extensive experimental tests and analysis indicate that solvent and chemical cross-linking stabilization methods can better preserve clock dynamics with sensitive switching ability. Nevertheless, due to significant pH changes in the reacting system, the reusability of the enzyme is better retained in the physical coating and solvent-physical coating co-modification methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":13894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Kinetics","volume":"56 9","pages":"522-533"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140591283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of reaction rate of thermogravimetric analysis data using periodic sinc function interpolation","authors":"Alireza Aghili, Amir Hossein Shabani","doi":"10.1002/kin.21724","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kin.21724","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The periodic sinc function interpolation offers a compelling solution to address the issue of noise in the analysis of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) data, thereby enhancing the outcomes of differential techniques such as the Friedman isoconversional method. In this study, we introduce a novel approach that leverages the periodic sinc function interpolation to directly obtain smooth reaction rates from TGA data, eliminating the reliance on numerical differentiation methods. The efficacy of this method has been confirmed through its application to noisy experimental data derived from the thermal decomposition of various polymers, showcasing its robustness. Readers are provided with the corresponding code for Gnu Octave, serving as a free alternative to MATLAB. Additionally, the activation energies calculated from the experimental data using both the Friedman method and periodic sinc function interpolation closely align with those determined by the integral Vyazovkin method, emphasizing the validity and reliability of this new approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":13894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Kinetics","volume":"56 9","pages":"513-521"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140591281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felix Schmalz, Wassja A. Kopp, Eirini Goudeli, Kai Leonhard
{"title":"Reaction path identification and validation from molecular dynamics simulations of hydrocarbon pyrolysis","authors":"Felix Schmalz, Wassja A. Kopp, Eirini Goudeli, Kai Leonhard","doi":"10.1002/kin.21719","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kin.21719","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Creation of complex chemical mechanisms for hydrocarbon pyrolysis and combustion is challenging due to the large number of species and reactions involved. Reactive molecular dynamics (RMD) enables the simulation of thousands of reactions and the discovery of previously unknown components of the reaction network. However, due to the inherent imprecision of reactive force fields, it is necessary to verify RMD-obtained reaction paths using more accurate methods such as Density Functional Theory (DFT). We demonstrate a method for identification and confirmation of reaction pathways from RMD that supplement an established mechanism, using the example of benzene formation from <i>n</i>-heptane and <i>iso</i>-octane pyrolysis. We establish a validation workflow to extract reaction geometries from RMD and optimize transition states using the Nudged-Elastic-Band method on semi-empirical and quantum mechanical levels of theory. Our findings demonstrate that the widely recognized ReaxFF parameterization, CHO2016, can identify known pathways from a established soot formation mechanism while also indicating new ones. We also show that CHO2016 underestimates hydrogen migration barriers by up to <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>40</mn>\u0000 <mspace></mspace>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>kcal</mi>\u0000 <mspace></mspace>\u0000 <mi>mol</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$40,{rm {kcal,mol}}^{-1}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> as compared to DFT and can lower activation barriers significantly for spin-forbidden reactions. This highlights the necessity for validation or potentially even reparametrization of CHO2016.</p>","PeriodicalId":13894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Kinetics","volume":"56 9","pages":"501-512"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/kin.21719","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140591635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}