{"title":"Theoretical study on the effect of shear deformation on WSe2 as a cathode material for calcium ion batteries","authors":"Kuiyuan Chen, Yanyan Feng","doi":"10.1002/qua.27457","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qua.27457","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, the first-principles method is used to calculate the electronic structure of the intrinsic WSe<sub>2</sub> system and the Ca adsorbed WSe<sub>2</sub> system under shear deformation, and the diffusion barrier of Ca on WSe<sub>2</sub> is studied in depth. The results show that shear deformation can effectively reduce the band gap of WSe<sub>2</sub> system, and shear deformation can easily lead to the transition from semiconductor properties to metal properties. The adsorption of Ca leads to the change of the band structure of WSe<sub>2</sub>. The contribution of Ca-d electrons leads to an increase in the peak in the range of 3–6 eV. The shear deformation reduces the diffusion barrier of Ca on the WSe<sub>2</sub> surface. This paper provides an improvement method for the application of WSe<sub>2</sub> in the field of battery.</p>","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative structure-property relationship techniques for predicting carbon dioxide solubility in ionic liquids using machine learning methods","authors":"Widad Benmouloud, Imane Euldji, Cherif Si-Moussa, Othmane Benkortbi","doi":"10.1002/qua.27450","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qua.27450","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ionic liquids (ILs) are considered unique and attractive types of solvents with great potential to capture carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) and reduce its emissions into the atmosphere. On the other hand, carrying out experimental measurements of CO<sub>2</sub> solubility for each new IL is time-consuming and expensive. Whereas, the possible combinations of cations and anions are numerous. Therefore, the preparation and design of such processes requires simple and accurate models to predict the solubility of CO<sub>2</sub> as a greenhouse gas. In the present study, two different models, namely: artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine optimized with dragonfly algorithm (DA-SVM) were used in order to establish a quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) between the molecular structures of cations and anions and the CO<sub>2</sub> solubility. More than 10 116 CO<sub>2</sub> solubility data measured in various ionic liquids (ILs) at different temperatures and pressures were collected. 13 significant PaDEL descriptors (E2M, MATS8S, TDB6I, TDB1S, ATSC4V, MATS8M, ATSC7V, Gats2S, Gats5S, Gats5C, ATSC6V, DE, and Lobmax), temperature and pressure were considered as the model input data. For the test set data (2023 data point), the estimated mean absolute error (MAE) and <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> for the ANN model are of 0.0195 and 0.9828 and 0.0219 and 0.9745 for the DA-SVM model. The results obtained showed that both models can reliably predict the solubility of CO<sub>2</sub> in ILs with a slight superiority of the ANN model. Examination of sensitivity and outlier diagnosis examinations confirmed that the QSPR model optimized using the ANN algorithm is better suited to correlate and predict this property.</p>","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two-dimensional ammonia-linked COF structures with different substituents for the adsorption and separation of sulfur hexafluoride: A theoretical study","authors":"Kun Shen, Junjie Ning, Rui Zhao, Kunqi Gao, Xiangyu Yin, Linxi Hou","doi":"10.1002/qua.27453","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qua.27453","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As one of the most potent greenhouse gases, SF<sub>6</sub> has a significant economic and environmental impact on the purification and recovery of exhaust gases from the semiconductor industry. The adsorption and separation performance of SF<sub>6</sub> on a two-dimensional covalent organic framework TAT-COFs-1-AB with different functional groups (<span></span>SO<sub>3</sub>H, <span></span>Et, <span></span>NH<sub>2</sub>, <span></span>OMe, <span></span>OH, <span></span>H) was investigated by using grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The results show that the adsorption at low pressure depends on the interactions between the SF<sub>6</sub> and COF frameworks, while at high pressure it is mainly affected by the porosity. The highest adsorption capacity of 8.44 mmol/g (298 K, 100 kPa) is exhibited by TAT-COF-1-AB-H, which has the highest porosity. Chemical functionalization was found to be effective in enhancing the SF<sub>6</sub>/N<sub>2</sub> selectivity. Among all the functionalized COFs, TAT-COF-1-AB-NH<sub>2</sub>, with the highest specific surface area and strong heat of adsorption, showed the highest selectivity. The simulation of self-diffusion also shows consistent results with the GCMC simulation. The findings highlight that the adsorption capacity is influenced by substituent and porosity, with SF<sub>6</sub> showing a consistent preference for adsorption at hollow sites, as evidenced by binding energy and charge transfer analyses.</p>","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141863555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aromaticity of tropylium derivatives: When and why might captodative structures be preferred over the isomeric push-pull structures?","authors":"Bagrat A. Shainyan","doi":"10.1002/qua.27449","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qua.27449","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An intriguing question in the general problem of aromaticity is whether captodative aromatic systems with the donor and acceptor substituents at the same carbon of the CC bond can be more stable than the π-conjugated push-pull counterparts? The analysis of electronic, magnetic, and structural criteria of aromaticity showed that for conventional organic substituents XO, TfN, (NC)<sub>2</sub>C, (NO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>C, Tf<sub>2</sub>C, the push-pull tropylidene derivatives [tropylium]<sup>+</sup><span></span>CHCH<span></span>X<sup>−</sup> are expectedly more stable than their captodative isomers [tropylium]<sup>+</sup>C(X<sup>−</sup>)CH<sub>2</sub>, with the lowest Δ<i>E</i> for the most strong acceptor Tf<sub>2</sub>C. A different behavior is observed for XMHlg<sub>3</sub> (MB, Al; HlgF, Cl). They are not only structurally and magnetically most aromatic in both series but show the inverse stability of the push-pull and captodative isomers, the latter being more stable by up to 10 kcal/mol (in gas).The difference between the MHlg<sub>3</sub> groups and conventional organic groups is that in the latter the electron density is transferred to the π-system of the substituent, while the former can accept it only to the σ*(C<span></span>M) orbital. Thus, when the electron donor and acceptor effects are separated between the σ and π systems, captodative isomers can be more stable than their push-pull isomers with more extended conjugation.</p>","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover Image, Volume 124, Issue 12","authors":"S. Salehfar, S. M. Azami","doi":"10.1002/qua.27444","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qua.27444","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The cover image is based on the Research Article <i>Asymmetric electronic deformation in graphene molecular capacitors</i> by S. Salehfar et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/qua.27426.</p><p>[Correction added on 25 July 2024, after first online publication: Cover has been replaced.]\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/qua.27444","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydrogenation of hexene catalyzed by a ruthenium (II) complex with N-heterocyclic carbene ligands","authors":"Sofiene Achour, Zied Hosni, Bahoueddine Tangour","doi":"10.1002/qua.27456","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qua.27456","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we investigated the mechanism of the inactivated hexene hydrogenation reaction catalyzed by a ruthenium (II) complex containing “<i>N</i>-heterocyclic carbene” (NHC) ligands, specifically SIMes and CBA, using DFT calculations. Our focus was on RuH(OSO<sub>2</sub>CF<sub>3</sub>)(CO)(SIMes)(CBA), which exhibits excellent catalytic behavior. We tested the B3LYP-D3, cam-B3LYP, and TPSSh functionals. The hydrogenation reaction is initiated by the release of SIMes rather than CBA due to the lower associated dissociation energy. Our findings indicate a reaction mechanism consisting of two consecutive steps, each involving one hydrogen atom migration. The first step, considered as the kinetically limiting transition state, exhibits a Gibbs free activation barrier of 12.9 kcal mol<sup>−1</sup>. This step involves two asynchronous processes. The first one describes the migration of the ruthenium hydride to the internal carbon of the olefine function, transitioning from <i>π</i> to <i>σ</i> coordination mode, which promotes the formation of a bond between ruthenium and the terminal olefinic carbon. The second process involves the oxidation of ruthenium from Ru(II) to Ru(IV). This oxidation is crucial as it enables the decomposition of the H<sub>2</sub> molecule into two hydrogen atoms bonded to the ruthenium atom. The geometrical structures of the Hidden Reaction Intermediate Ru(II) complex and the quasi-transition state of the second process have been determined by means of the RIRC technique. The second step entails the migration of one of the newly formed hydrides of the Ru(IV) complex to the terminal olefinic carbon, resulting in the release of hexane with a weak activation Gibbs free energy of .8 kcal mol<sup>−1</sup>. Lastly, we explored the use of dichloromethane as a solvent, considering the PCM model. The presence of the solvent significantly decreases the energy dissociation of SIMes from 17.9 to 9.0 kcal mol<sup>−1</sup>, providing notable benefits.</p>","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/qua.27456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differences in carbonyl groups and boron acceptors in MR-TADF and full-color emission merging strategies: A theoretical study","authors":"Shengyao Huang, Kunsheng Zhang, Limei Tang, Ling Chen, Yujiao Luo, Yuman Li, Wei Shen","doi":"10.1002/qua.27454","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qua.27454","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescent (MR-TADF) materials, which combine large oscillator strengths, small singlet-triplet energy gaps, high photoluminescence quantum yields, and color purity, have attracted great interest in both experimental and theoretical research in recent years. However, the differences between two classes of MR-TADF, utilizing carbonyl groups and boron atoms as acceptors respectively, have not been clearly delineated, and the implementation of strategies combining both is extremely limited. This limitation hampers the diversity in composition and structure of MR-TADF. In this study, we employed boron as the central acceptor and carbonyl groups as peripheral acceptors, designing and investigating 7 merged systems of MR-TADF molecules. Calculations revealed that, in contrast to the strong acceptor characteristics of boron atoms, carbonyl groups do not exhibit absolute acceptor features, and their resonance effects depend on the surrounding environment. This unique resonance effect induces LRCT features to varying degrees, enabling the emission coverage of these molecules across almost the entire visible spectrum (theoretical emission wavelengths covering 452–751 nm). We gained an understanding of the differences between boron acceptors and carbonyl groups, achieving full-color emission by adjusting only the MR cores. This provides insights into the rational design of complex-component full-color MR-TADF emitters.</p>","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dipayan Seal, Shrabani Sen, Pinaki Chaudhury, Subhasree Ghosh
{"title":"Model two states dynamics of photo-detachment [F-H-F]\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 −\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 $$ {}^{-} $$\u0000 induced by an optimally designed polychromatic field","authors":"Dipayan Seal, Shrabani Sen, Pinaki Chaudhury, Subhasree Ghosh","doi":"10.1002/qua.27455","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qua.27455","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Photo-detachment of electron from [F-H-F]<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mrow></mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {}^{-} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> to generate neutral [F-H-F] has been studied in this article. Neutral <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>HF</mtext>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{HF}}_2 $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> has a linear structure and this is the transition state (T.S.) of F + HF <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>→</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ to $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> FH + F reaction. The Potential Energy Surface (P.E.S.) of neutral [F-H-F] and molecular anion [F-H-F]<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mrow></mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {}^{-} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> for the asymmetric stretching mode is generated and the dynamics under the influence of an external polychromatic field is followed. The P.E.S. of [F-H-F]<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mrow></mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {}^{-} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> looks like a “flat-bed” single well where as for [F-H-F] it has a symmetrical double well structure. In absence of any external field these two surfaces are well separated. But in presence of external field transition from molecular anion <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ Big( $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>[F-H-F]<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mrow></mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {}^{-} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>\u0000 <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":182,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Quantum Chemistry","volume":"124 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}