Ekaterina P. Kozhanova, Yakov D. Samuilov, Alexander Y. Samuilov
{"title":"Theoretical study of reaction of urea with methylamine: nucleophilic addition pathway","authors":"Ekaterina P. Kozhanova, Yakov D. Samuilov, Alexander Y. Samuilov","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03074-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03074-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The B3LYP and wB97XD density functional methods were used to study the mechanisms and thermodynamic parameters of the activation and reactions of non-catalytic and catalyzed by phenol and <i>p-</i>toluenesulfonic acid reactions of urea with methylamine. The interaction proceeds stepwise with the intermediate formation of N-methylurea. The non-catalytic interaction has a large activation barrier. In the case of participation of methylamine dimer, the activation barrier decreases, but, nevertheless, remains high. During catalysis by phenol and <i>p-</i>toluenesulfonic acid, compounds exhibiting biphilic properties, the activation barrier decreases. The greatest decrease in the activation barrier is observed during catalysis with <i>p-</i>toluenesulfonic acid.</p>","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138542318","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}
David A. Rincón, Ana J. Escorcia, Markus Doerr, Martha C. Daza
{"title":"QTAIM based descriptors for the classification of acrylates","authors":"David A. Rincón, Ana J. Escorcia, Markus Doerr, Martha C. Daza","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03034-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03034-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Acrylates are used in cosmetics, orthopedics, paints, coatings, adhesives, textiles, and biomedical applications such as contact lenses and bone cements. However, some acrylates are mutagenic and the aim of this article is to explain the mutagenicity in terms of the atomic population redistribution in the molecule using two new descriptors which are based on atomic populations framed in the quantum theory of atoms in molecules. They describe the electron-withdrawing effect of a group of atoms in a molecule. The descriptors consider substituents of prop-2-enoates, the number of the acrolein units and the electrophilicity. The cluster analysis using these descriptors allows to classify acrylates in terms of the number of acrolein backbones and the type of the substituent group. Five main groups can be distinguished: monoacrylates with monomethacrylates, diacrylates with dimethacrylates, triacrylates, trimethacrylate and monoacrylates with electron-rich substituents. The substituents of mutagenic acrylates are electron withdrawing. This makes the acrolein backbone β-carbon more electrophilic and the molecule more reactive.</p>","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":"84 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513264","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":"Effect of Ge-doping on the adsorption of anions (F−, Cl−, Br−) onto the outer surface of boron nitride nanotube: a DFT study","authors":"Marziyeh Mohammadi, Fahimeh Alirezapour, Azadeh Khanmohammadi","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03072-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03072-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, the adsorption behavior of anions (F<sup>−</sup>, Cl<sup>−</sup>, Br<sup>−</sup>) on the surface of the single-walled boron nitride nanotube (SWBNNT) is explored using density functional theory (DFT). The interaction between the ions with the pristine BNNT and the Ge-doped BNNT is performed in the solution phase. According to the obtained data, the F<sup>−</sup>@BNNT and F<sup>−</sup>@Ge-BNNT systems have the highest adsorption energy with values of − 329.85 and − 344.71 kJ/mol, respectively. On the other hand, the lowest values have been shown in Cl<sup>−</sup>@BNNT and Cl<sup>−</sup>@Ge-BNNT structures with values of − 31.17 and − 57.79 kJ/mol, respectively. During the complexation, a decrease in the energy gap (E<sub>g</sub>) is accompanied by an increase in the reactivity and electrical conductivity. The HOMO–LUMO energy gaps are found to be the lowest in F<sup>−</sup>@Ge-BNNT with 5.311 eV followed by Cl<sup>−</sup>@Ge-BNNT and Br<sup>−</sup>@Ge-BNNT with 5.299 eV and 5.293 eV, respectively, while these values are 8.028, 8.048, and 7.992 eV for F<sup>−</sup>@BNNT, Cl<sup>−</sup>@BNNT and Br<sup>−</sup>@BNNT, respectively. The intermolecular interactions between the species are also evaluated using the natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. Finally, to confirm the obtained results, the calculated density of states is depicted.</p>","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138525301","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}
Haydar Mohammad-Salim, Asmita Mondal, Jesus Vicente de Julián-Ortiz, Nivedita Acharjee
{"title":"Diastereoselective green synthesis of pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinolines via [3+2] cycloaddition reaction: insights from molecular electron density theory","authors":"Haydar Mohammad-Salim, Asmita Mondal, Jesus Vicente de Julián-Ortiz, Nivedita Acharjee","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03068-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03068-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The [3+2] cycloaddition (32CA) reaction between cyclic azomethine ylide (generated from <i>N</i>-phenacylquinolinium bromide) and <i>N</i>-arylmaleimide, leading to pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinolone, has been investigated using the Molecular Electron Density Theory at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) computational level with D3 correction. This study focuses on the zwitter-ionic type 32CA reaction, highlighting its polar character with the electronic flux from the azomethine ylide to the alkene. The reaction proceeds with complete <i>endo-</i>stereoselectivity, and the activation parameters show minimal variations in different solvents, consistent with experimental observations. The activation energy is associated with the depopulation of the N2–C1 and C4–C5 bonding regions, formation of non-bonding electron density at N2 nitrogen and creation of <i>pseudoradical</i> centers at C3, C4 and C5. These findings suggest that the formation of new covalent bonds does not occur at the transition states, in line with the presence of non-covalent interactions at the interatomic bonding regions, as revealed by the topological analysis of the Quantum Theory of Atoms-in-Molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":"376 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138525366","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}
Mohamed J. Saadh, Manal A. Abbood, Abdelmajeed Adam Lagum, Anjan Kumar, Salema K. Hadrawi, A. H. Shather, Ali Abdulhasan Kadhim, Ali Majdi
{"title":"The B3S monolayer as a high-capacity anode material for sodium-ion batteries: First-principles density functional theory approach","authors":"Mohamed J. Saadh, Manal A. Abbood, Abdelmajeed Adam Lagum, Anjan Kumar, Salema K. Hadrawi, A. H. Shather, Ali Abdulhasan Kadhim, Ali Majdi","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03070-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03070-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":"48 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134902135","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":"The lowest singlet states of hexatriene revisited","authors":"Riccardo Guareschi, Celestino Angeli","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03064-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03064-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The two lowest excited singlet states of trans -hexatriene and cis -hexatriene are studied by multireference perturbation theory approaches (NEVPT2 and CASPT2) in their quasi-degenerate version (QD-NEVPT2 and MS-CASPT2). For these states, we report spectroscopic properties such as the vertical and adiabatic excitation energies, some features of the topology of the potential energy surfaces (PES), and the emission energies. The theoretical vertical excitation energies for the $${2{hspace{0.05cm}}{^1textrm{A}_g^-}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mspace /> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow /> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msup> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mtext>A</mml:mtext> <mml:mi>g</mml:mi> <mml:mo>-</mml:mo> </mml:msubsup> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> and $${1{hspace{0.05cm}}{^1textrm{B}_u^+}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mspace /> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow /> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msup> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mtext>B</mml:mtext> <mml:mi>u</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:msubsup> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> states of trans -hexatriene are found to be almost degenerate, with a value, $$simeq$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mo>≃</mml:mo> </mml:math> 5.5–5.6 eV, higher than that normally accepted in the literature, 5.2 eV and 5.1 eV, respectively. The $${2{hspace{0.05cm}}{^1textrm{A}_1}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mspace /> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow /> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msup> <mml:msub> <mml:mtext>A</mml:mtext> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> and $${1{hspace{0.05cm}}{^1textrm{B}_2}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mspace /> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow /> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msup> <mml:msub> <mml:mtext>B</mml:mtext> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> states of cis -hexatriene are also almost degenerate and are estimated to be at $$simeq$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mo>≃</mml:mo> </mml:math> 5.4–5.5 and $$simeq$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mo>≃</mml:mo> </mml:math> 5.5 eV, respectively, again higher than the accepted values. The adiabatic excitation energies to the $${2{hspace{0.05cm}}{^1textrm{A}_g^-}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mspace /> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow /> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msup> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mtext>A</mml:mtext> <mml:mi>g</mml:mi> <mml:mo>-</mml:mo> </mml:msubsup> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> and $${2{hspace{0.05cm}}{^1textrm{A}_1}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mspace /> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow /> <mml:mn>1</mml:","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":"28 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136282593","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":"On the study of dye-sensitized solar cells with high light harvesting efficiency and correlation of its chemical reactivity parameters with overall performance","authors":"Harkishan Dua, Savaş Kaya, Utpal Sarkar","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03061-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03061-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":"104 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135136969","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}
Saulo A. Vázquez, Emilio Martínez-Núñez, Thomas J. Preston
{"title":"Exploring unimolecular reactions in disilanol and ethanol: Insights and challenges","authors":"Saulo A. Vázquez, Emilio Martínez-Núñez, Thomas J. Preston","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03062-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03062-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":" 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242585","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":"Single alkali metal-doped hexalithioborazine complexes with exceptionally high value of polarizability and first hyperpolarizability: a DFT-based computational study","authors":"Usha Mandal, Shashanka Shekhar Samanta, Subhadip Giri, Ajay Misra","doi":"10.1007/s00214-023-03066-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-023-03066-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23045,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Accounts","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342570","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}