{"title":"A First-Principle Study Investigating the Half-Metallic and Mechanical Properties of Double Halide Perovskites Rb2OsX6 (X = cl, Br, and I) for Spintronic Applications","authors":"Mohamed Boubchir, Zeyneb Bordjiba, Rabie Amraoui, Rachid Boubchir, Hafid Aourag","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27537","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcc.27537","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this work, we present a density functional calculation of the structural, electronic, and mechanical properties of cubic double halide perovskites Rb<sub>2</sub>OsX<sub>6</sub> (X = Cl, Br, and I). Our results show that these compounds are stable in the ferromagnetic phase with lattice parameters, bulk modulus, and their first-pressure derivatives in good agreement with other available theoretical data. The negative values of cohesive energy and formation energy, along with the absence of negative or imaginary frequencies in the phonon spectrum, confirm the mechanical stability of all the compounds. The Curie temperature (Tc) is determined using a Heisenberg model in the mean-field approximation. We obtained a half-metallic character for all compounds, making them promising materials for spintronic applications. The magnetic properties indicate that the Os atoms in all compounds are responsible for the magnetism, while the positive exchange constants suggest a strong preference for ferromagnetic alignment. This indicates a stable ferromagnetic phase and potential applications in spintronics. The mechanical properties demonstrate that the compounds studied are isotropic and ductile.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142777453","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}
Airan F. S. Brito, Adelia J. A. Aquino, José Roberto dos Santos Politi, João B. L. Martins
{"title":"Infrared Spectroscopy of Ethanethiol Monomers and Dimers at MP2 Level: Characterizing the Dimer Formation and Hydrogen Bond","authors":"Airan F. S. Brito, Adelia J. A. Aquino, José Roberto dos Santos Politi, João B. L. Martins","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27540","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcc.27540","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Ethanethiol, also known as ethyl mercaptan, is an organosulfur compound that appears as a colorless liquid with a distinctive odor. It has been detected in the interstellar medium, and its self-association has been the subject of a few known experimental studies, where the SH vibrational mode was used. However, unlike the analogous ethanol dimer, the ethanethiol dimer has not been thoroughly explored theoretically. In this study, ethanethiol and dimers were investigated using the MP2 method with various basis sets to determine the properties and stability of these structures. For the monomer, both trans and gauche structures were computed, with the gauche conformer being more stable, consistent with the available data in the literature. Local mode decomposition analysis of monomers showed that the CH<sub>2</sub> rocking mode, associated with the CSH bending, is present only for the gauche isomer aligning with the experimental assignments. Furthermore, eight stable dimer configurations were identified and categorized into three groups: trans–trans, gauche–gauche, and trans–gauche isomers. Among these, the trans–gauche isomer was found to be the most stable. Dispersion is the dominant term for the ethanethiol dimer.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142777401","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":"Mechanism of Ampicillin Hydrolysis by New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase 1: Insight From QM/MM MP2 Calculation","authors":"Rui Lai, Hui Li","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27544","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcc.27544","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1 (NDM-1) can hydrolyze nearly all clinically important β-lactam antibiotics, narrowing the options for effective treatment of bacterial infections. QM/MM MP2 calculations are performed to reveal the mechanism of ampicillin hydrolysis catalyzed by NDM-1. It is found that the rate-determining step is the dissociation of hydrolyzed ampicillin from the NDM-1 active site, which requires a proton transfer from the bridging neutral water molecule to the newly formed carboxylate group. The precedent reaction steps, including the hydroxide nucleophilic addition, C<span></span>N bond cleavage, and the protonation of the negative lactam N atom by a solvent water molecule, all require insignificant activation free energies. The calculated activation free energy for this rate-determining proton transfer step is 16.0 kcal/mol, in good agreement with experimental values of 13.7 ~ 14.7 kcal/mol. This proton transfer step exhibits a solvent hydrogen-deuterium kinetic isotope effect of 3.4, consistent with several experimental kinetic results.</p>","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcc.27544","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142777454","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":"Assessment of DFT Functionals for Predicting the Magnetic Exchange Coupling Constants of Nonalternant Hydrocarbon Diradicals: The Role of Hartree–Fock Exchange","authors":"Suranjan Shil","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27531","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcc.27531","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The magnetic nature of nonalternant hydrocarbon (Azulene) bridged nitronyl nitroxide (AzNN<sub>2</sub>) and imino-nitroxide (AzIN<sub>2</sub>) diradicals are investigated with 38 different DFT functionals to find out a correct functional to predict the magnetic nature of these diradicals. The effect of Hartree–Fock exchange (HFX) in the hybrid functionals are investigated for the prediction of magnetic nature of the nonalternant hydrocarbon bridged diradicals. The utility of Borden and Davidson's proposal of disjoint and nondisjoint SOMOs for the prediction of magnetic nature of alternant hydrocarbon bridged diradicals is assessed for the nonalternant hydrocarbon based diradicals. The more affordable meta-GGA functionals was found to be outperforming the costlier hybrid and double-hybrid functionals in predicting the magnetic properties of nonalternant hydrocarbon-bridged diradicals. HFX significantly influences a functional's ability to predict a diradical's magnetic nature. Interestingly, Borden and Davidson's concept of disjoint and nondisjoint SOMOs, which is used to predict the magnetic behavior of alternant hydrocarbon diradicals, is reversed for nonalternant hydrocarbon-bridged diradicals. The difference in the magnetic nature of the two diradicals come from the canonical molecular orbitals of the diradicals, one has set of disjoint SOMOs and other has nondisjoint SOMOs.</p>","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcc.27531","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142777455","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":"MolAR: Memory-Safe Library for Analysis of MD Simulations Written in Rust","authors":"Semen Yesylevskyy","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27536","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcc.27536","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transition to the memory safe natively compiled programming languages is a major software development trend in recent years, which eliminates memory-related security exploits, enables a fearless concurrency and parallelization, and drastically improves ergonomics and speed of software development. Modern memory-safe programing languages, such as Rust, are currently not used for developing molecular modeling and simulation software despite such obvious benefits as faster development cycle, better performance and smaller amount of bugs. This work introduces MolAR—the first memory-safe library for analysis of MD simulations written in Rust. MolAR is intended to explore the advantages and challenges of implementing molecular analysis software in the memory-safe natively compiled language and to develop specific memory-safe abstractions for this kind of software. MolAR demonstrates an excellent performance in benchmarks outperforming popular molecular analysis libraries and tools, which makes it attractive for implementing computationally intensive analysis tasks. MolAR is freely available under Artistic License 2.0 at https://github.com/yesint/molar.</p>","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcc.27536","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142758559","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":"Unveiling the Antiferromagnetic Properties of Cr2Pbn (n = 3–20) Clusters","authors":"Kai Wang, Shuai Xu, Yan Zhang","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27543","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcc.27543","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Assembling antiferromagnetic (AFM) clusters is perhaps an effective way to construct AFM materials to meet the increasing demand for micro/nano spintronic devices, which promotes the exploration of AFM clusters. Herein, we unveil the structural evolution, electronic, and AFM properties of Cr<sub>2</sub>Pb<sub><i>n</i></sub> (<i>n</i> = 3–20) clusters based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations. It is found that the Cr impurities prefer the central axis positions of the skeleton in these Cr<sub>2</sub>Pb<sub><i>n</i></sub> (<i>n</i> = 3–20) clusters. For sizes <i>n</i> ≤ 6, their structures are exohedral structures with the two Cr atoms exposed outside, endohedral Cr@Pb<sub><i>n</i></sub> configuration with one Cr atom interior appears at size 7, and the resulting endohedral structure is then gradually covered by the additional Pb atoms to form endohedral Cr<sub>2</sub>@Pb<sub><i>n</i></sub> structures for <i>n</i> = 15–20. All Cr<sub>2</sub>Pb<sub><i>n</i></sub> clusters are antiferromagnets, except for the ferrimagnetic Cr<sub>2</sub>Pb<sub>11</sub> with a net magnetic moment of 2 μ<sub>B</sub>. The discovered stable Cr<sub>2</sub>Pb<sub>17</sub> cluster can assemble into dimers and trimers while maintaining its geometric structure and AFM properties, indicating the potential of becoming structural units for cluster-assembled AFM materials.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756280","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}
Carlos V. Santos-Jr, Elfi Kraka, Renaldo T. Moura Jr
{"title":"Chemical Bond Overlap Descriptors From Multiconfiguration Wavefunctions","authors":"Carlos V. Santos-Jr, Elfi Kraka, Renaldo T. Moura Jr","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27534","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jcc.27534","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The chemical bond is a fundamental concept in chemistry, and various models and descriptors have evolved since the advent of quantum mechanics. This study extends the overlap density and its topological descriptors (OP/TOP) to multiconfigurational wavefunctions. We discuss a comparative analysis of OP/TOP descriptors using CASSCF and DCD-CAS(2) wavefunctions for a diverse range of molecular systems, including X–O bonds in X–OH (XH, Li, Na, H<sub>2</sub>B, H<sub>3</sub>C, H<sub>2</sub>N, HO, F) and Li–X′ (XF, Cl, and Br). Results show that OP/TOP aligns with bonding models like the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) and local vibrational modes theory, revealing insights such as overlap densities shifting towards the more electronegative atom in polar bonds. The Li–F dissociation profile using OP/TOP descriptors demonstrated sensitivity to ionic/neutral inversion during Li–F dissociation, highlighting their potential for elucidating complex bond phenomena and offering new avenues for understanding multiconfigurational chemical bond dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcc.27534","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142737935","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":"DC24: A new density coherence functional for multiconfiguration density‐coherence functional theory","authors":"Dayou Zhang, Yinan Shu, Donald G. Truhlar","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.27522","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we explored several alternative functional forms to construct more accurate and more physical density coherence (DC) functionals for multiconfiguration density‐coherence functional theory. Each functional is parameterized against the same database as used in our previous work. The best DC functional, which is called DC24, has a more physical interpretation, and—as a side benefit—it also has a mean unsigned error of 1.73 kcal/mol, which is a 9% improvement as compared to the previous functional. The article also contains a new definition of the unpaired electron density, which may be useful in other contexts as well.","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597905","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}
Danillo Valverde, Roiney Beal, Paulo Fernando Bruno Gonçalves, Antonio Carlos Borin
{"title":"Excited state relaxation mechanisms of paracetamol and acetanilide.","authors":"Danillo Valverde, Roiney Beal, Paulo Fernando Bruno Gonçalves, Antonio Carlos Borin","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.27521","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The photochemical pathways of acetanilide and paracetamol were investigated using the XMS-CASPT2 quantum chemical method and the cc-pVDZ (correlation consistent polarized valence double- <math> <semantics><mrow><mi>ζ</mi></mrow> <annotation>$$ zeta $$</annotation></semantics> </math> ) basis set. In both compounds, the bright state is the second excited state, designated as a <math> <semantics> <mrow><msup><mrow></mrow> <mn>1</mn></msup> <mo>(</mo> <msup><mi>ππ</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup> </mrow> <annotation>$$ {}^1Big({pi pi}^{ast } $$</annotation></semantics> </math> L<sub>a</sub>) state. Through a detailed exploration of the potential energy profile and the conical intersection structure between the <math> <semantics> <mrow><msup><mrow></mrow> <mn>1</mn></msup> <mo>(</mo> <msup><mi>ππ</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup> </mrow> <annotation>$$ {}^1Big({pi pi}^{ast } $$</annotation></semantics> </math> L<sub>a</sub>) and ground states, we gained a better understanding of how cleavage might occur in both molecules upon photoexcitation. Other potential relaxation mechanisms, including crossings with the dark <math> <semantics> <mrow><msup><mrow></mrow> <mn>1</mn></msup> <mfenced><mrow><mi>n</mi> <msup><mi>π</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup> </mrow> </mfenced> </mrow> <annotation>$$ {}^1left(n{pi}^{ast}right) $$</annotation></semantics> </math> and <math> <semantics> <mrow><msup><mrow></mrow> <mn>1</mn></msup> <mo>(</mo> <msup><mi>ππ</mi> <mo>*</mo></msup> </mrow> <annotation>$$ {}^1Big({pi pi}^{ast } $$</annotation></semantics> </math> L<sub>a</sub>) states, are also discussed in detail.</p>","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142575025","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":"Assessing small molecule conformational sampling methods in molecular docking","authors":"Qiancheng Xia, Qiuyu Fu, Cheng Shen, Ruth Brenk, Niu Huang","doi":"10.1002/jcc.27516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.27516","url":null,"abstract":"Small molecule conformational sampling plays a pivotal role in molecular docking. Recent advancements have led to the emergence of various conformational sampling methods, each employing distinct algorithms. This study investigates the impact of different small molecule conformational sampling methods in molecular docking using UCSF DOCK 3.7. Specifically, six traditional sampling methods (Omega, BCL::Conf, CCDC Conformer Generator, ConfGenX, Conformator, RDKit ETKDGv3) and a deep learning-based model (Torsional Diffusion) for generating conformational ensembles are evaluated. These ensembles are subsequently docked against the Platinum Diverse Dataset, the PoseBusters dataset and the DUDE-Z dataset to assess binding pose reproducibility and screening power. Notably, different sampling methods exhibit varying performance due to their unique preferences, such as dihedral angle sampling ranges on rotatable bonds. Combining complementary methods may lead to further improvements in docking performance.","PeriodicalId":188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computational Chemistry","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142541464","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}