ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-03-10eCollection Date: 2025-03-26DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00103
Alexander J Menke, Joseph H Reibenspies, Casey J Patterson-Gardner, Alexander M Engstrom, R Scott Lokey, Eric E Simanek
{"title":"Choreoisosteres: Pseudoatom Variation in Macrocyclic Hinges Conserves Structure and Dynamics.","authors":"Alexander J Menke, Joseph H Reibenspies, Casey J Patterson-Gardner, Alexander M Engstrom, R Scott Lokey, Eric E Simanek","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00103","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Differing in pseudoatom, three macrocycles with isosteric substitutions (geminal dimethyl, cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl) can be described as choreoisosteres. Under ambient conditions, they share a dynamic hinge-like motion that can be described as fully revolute in solution. The barriers to hinging, Δ<i>G</i> <sup>‡</sup>, are identical within experimental error: Δ<i>G</i> <sup>‡</sup> = 14.2-15.2 kcal/mol as judged by variable-temperature <sup>13</sup>C NMR spectroscopy. Consistent with conserved dynamic behavior and isosterism, other physical properties including hydrophobicity and solution/membrane diffusion constants are amenable to prediction.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 2","pages":"134-138"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11950847/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143754895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-03-10DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c0010310.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00103
Alexander J. Menke, Joseph H. Reibenspies, Casey J. Patterson-Gardner, Alexander M. Engstrom, R. Scott Lokey and Eric E. Simanek*,
{"title":"Choreoisosteres: Pseudoatom Variation in Macrocyclic Hinges Conserves Structure and Dynamics","authors":"Alexander J. Menke, Joseph H. Reibenspies, Casey J. Patterson-Gardner, Alexander M. Engstrom, R. Scott Lokey and Eric E. Simanek*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c0010310.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00103https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00103","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Differing in pseudoatom, three macrocycles with isosteric substitutions (geminal dimethyl, cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl) can be described as choreoisosteres. Under ambient conditions, they share a dynamic hinge-like motion that can be described as fully revolute in solution. The barriers to hinging, Δ<i>G</i><sup>‡</sup>, are identical within experimental error: Δ<i>G</i><sup>‡</sup> = 14.2–15.2 kcal/mol as judged by variable-temperature <sup>13</sup>C NMR spectroscopy. Consistent with conserved dynamic behavior and isosterism, other physical properties including hydrophobicity and solution/membrane diffusion constants are amenable to prediction.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 2","pages":"134–138 134–138"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143696517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-03-07eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00007
Guillaume P Laurent, Samuel L Leonard, Mita Halder, Damien B Culver, Peng Xu, Mark S Gordon, Frédéric A Perras
{"title":"Preferred Orientation of a Physisorbed Molecular Catalyst and Implications for Selectivity.","authors":"Guillaume P Laurent, Samuel L Leonard, Mita Halder, Damien B Culver, Peng Xu, Mark S Gordon, Frédéric A Perras","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00007","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Confinement effects in stereoselective catalysis have been the topic of prolonged inquiry. Results have been largely mixed, with confinement having been reported to both enhance and degrade selectivity. Our ability to understand the surface's impact on catalytic mechanisms, and thus selectivity, has been severely hindered by the low level of details commonly seen in the structures of supported metal complexes. Recent developments in sensitivity-enhanced NMR are revealing not only the molecular structure of surface sites but also their configuration, orientation, and proximities to neighboring molecules. In studying [Rh-(cyclooctadiene)-((<i>S</i>)-(-)-2-aminomethyl-1-ethyl-pyrrolidine)]-CF<sub>3</sub>SO<sub>3</sub> noncovalently immobilized to silica, an enantioselective hydrogenation catalyst, we observed a strong preference for a particular orientation of the complex relative to the support surface. We discuss how preferential adsorption may help reduce the number of competing reaction pathways and, in turn, have outsized effects on selectivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 3","pages":"293-301"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12123549/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c0000710.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00007
Guillaume P. Laurent, Samuel L. Leonard, Mita Halder, Damien B. Culver, Peng Xu, Mark S. Gordon and Frédéric A. Perras*,
{"title":"Preferred Orientation of a Physisorbed Molecular Catalyst and Implications for Selectivity","authors":"Guillaume P. Laurent, Samuel L. Leonard, Mita Halder, Damien B. Culver, Peng Xu, Mark S. Gordon and Frédéric A. Perras*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c0000710.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00007https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00007","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Confinement effects in stereoselective catalysis have been the topic of prolonged inquiry. Results have been largely mixed, with confinement having been reported to both enhance and degrade selectivity. Our ability to understand the surface’s impact on catalytic mechanisms, and thus selectivity, has been severely hindered by the low level of details commonly seen in the structures of supported metal complexes. Recent developments in sensitivity-enhanced NMR are revealing not only the molecular structure of surface sites but also their configuration, orientation, and proximities to neighboring molecules. In studying [Rh(cyclooctadiene)((<i>S</i>)-(−)-2-aminomethyl-1-ethyl-pyrrolidine)]CF<sub>3</sub>SO<sub>3</sub> noncovalently immobilized to silica, an enantioselective hydrogenation catalyst, we observed a strong preference for a particular orientation of the complex relative to the support surface. We discuss how preferential adsorption may help reduce the number of competing reaction pathways and, in turn, have outsized effects on selectivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 3","pages":"293–301 293–301"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c0000610.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00006
Victor A. S. daMata*, Giseli M. Moreira, Adevânia J. da Silva, Romarly F. da Costa, Luiz A. V. Mendes and Manoel G. P. Homem,
{"title":"Elastic Electron Collisions with Cyanoacetylene","authors":"Victor A. S. daMata*, Giseli M. Moreira, Adevânia J. da Silva, Romarly F. da Costa, Luiz A. V. Mendes and Manoel G. P. Homem, ","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c0000610.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00006https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00006","url":null,"abstract":"<p >A comprehensive theoretical investigation involving electron collisions with cyanoacetylene is reported. Differential cross sections (DCSs), integral cross sections (ICSs), and momentum-transfer cross sections (MTCSs) for the elastic electron scattering were calculated using the Schwinger multichannel (SMC) method at the static-exchange plus polarization (SEP) level of approximation for energies ranging from 0.5 to 30 eV. The Schwinger variational method combined with Padé’s approximants (SVPA), considering static-exchange-polarization plus absorption (SEPA), was also applied for impact energies from 0.1 to 1000 eV. These results were complemented by calculations performed according to the screen-corrected independent atom model (SCIAM). Furthermore, original measurements of absolute elastic (DCSs) at 20 eV were conducted in a crossed-beam apparatus. The theoretical results display an outstanding agreement with each other and an overall agreement with the calculated cross sections available in the literature. The agreement between the calculated and measured results is quite encouraging, further validating the thoroughness of the current research.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 3","pages":"283–292 283–292"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-03-05eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00006
Victor A S da Mata, Giseli M Moreira, Adevânia J da Silva, Romarly F da Costa, Luiz A V Mendes, Manoel G P Homem
{"title":"Elastic Electron Collisions with Cyanoacetylene.","authors":"Victor A S da Mata, Giseli M Moreira, Adevânia J da Silva, Romarly F da Costa, Luiz A V Mendes, Manoel G P Homem","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00006","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.5c00006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A comprehensive theoretical investigation involving electron collisions with cyanoacetylene is reported. Differential cross sections (DCSs), integral cross sections (ICSs), and momentum-transfer cross sections (MTCSs) for the elastic electron scattering were calculated using the Schwinger multichannel (SMC) method at the static-exchange plus polarization (SEP) level of approximation for energies ranging from 0.5 to 30 eV. The Schwinger variational method combined with Padé's approximants (SVPA), considering static-exchange-polarization plus absorption (SEPA), was also applied for impact energies from 0.1 to 1000 eV. These results were complemented by calculations performed according to the screen-corrected independent atom model (SCIAM). Furthermore, original measurements of absolute elastic (DCSs) at 20 eV were conducted in a crossed-beam apparatus. The theoretical results display an outstanding agreement with each other and an overall agreement with the calculated cross sections available in the literature. The agreement between the calculated and measured results is quite encouraging, further validating the thoroughness of the current research.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 3","pages":"283-292"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12123550/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c0010410.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00104
Yidong Liu, Abhinav Chandresh and Lars Heinke*,
{"title":"Impact of the Channel Length in Nanoporous Electric Double-Layer Capacitors on the Charge Transport Explored by Metal–Organic Framework Films","authors":"Yidong Liu, Abhinav Chandresh and Lars Heinke*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c0010410.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00104https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00104","url":null,"abstract":"<p >For enhancing the performance of electric double-layer capacitors, the porous electrodes must be further optimized. While many studies on electrolyte and electrode structures enable detailed insights, the length of the pore channels of the electrode has been overlooked. Here, we use films of two-dimensional conductive metal–organic frameworks, where the film thickness (and thus the pore channel length) is rationally tuned over a wide range. Cyclic voltammetry experiments with two different electrolytes were conducted, revealing the charge transport kinetics in the porous electrodes. For the highly mobile electrolyte, the kinetics is not limited by ion transport (i.e., diffusion) even for thick films, exhibiting mainly surface-controlled kinetic behavior. In contrast, for the less mobile electrolyte, the kinetics is primarily limited by ion diffusion, and the pore channel length has a severe impact, where long channels result in strongly decreased capacitances, highlighting the importance of adjusting the channel length.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 3","pages":"266–273 266–273"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-03-04eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00104
Yidong Liu, Abhinav Chandresh, Lars Heinke
{"title":"Impact of the Channel Length in Nanoporous Electric Double-Layer Capacitors on the Charge Transport Explored by Metal-Organic Framework Films.","authors":"Yidong Liu, Abhinav Chandresh, Lars Heinke","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00104","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For enhancing the performance of electric double-layer capacitors, the porous electrodes must be further optimized. While many studies on electrolyte and electrode structures enable detailed insights, the length of the pore channels of the electrode has been overlooked. Here, we use films of two-dimensional conductive metal-organic frameworks, where the film thickness (and thus the pore channel length) is rationally tuned over a wide range. Cyclic voltammetry experiments with two different electrolytes were conducted, revealing the charge transport kinetics in the porous electrodes. For the highly mobile electrolyte, the kinetics is not limited by ion transport (i.e., diffusion) even for thick films, exhibiting mainly surface-controlled kinetic behavior. In contrast, for the less mobile electrolyte, the kinetics is primarily limited by ion diffusion, and the pore channel length has a severe impact, where long channels result in strongly decreased capacitances, highlighting the importance of adjusting the channel length.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 3","pages":"266-273"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12123543/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Physical Chemistry AuPub Date : 2025-02-26eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00107
Makoto Hatakeyama, Shinichiro Nakamura
{"title":"\"Button-on-a-String\" Mechanism in Water, the Ultrafast UV-to-Heat Conversion by Mycosporine-like Amino Acid Porphyra-334 of Natural Sunscreen Compound.","authors":"Makoto Hatakeyama, Shinichiro Nakamura","doi":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00107","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) are a family of hydrophilic sunscreen compounds synthesized by aquatic organisms, such as algae and cyanobacteria. In this study, we demonstrate that porphyra-334, which is a common MAA, decays nonradiatively within several hundred femtoseconds after ultraviolet (UV) light absorption in water by rotating the intramolecular cyclohexenimine ring. The ring rotation resulted from the UV excitation of the intramolecular π-conjugation, and the ring rotation proceeded while preserving the hydrogen bonds with the surrounding water molecules. The hydrogen bonds were preserved due to the structural flexibility of the ring-attached amino acids of porphyra-334. The amino acids maintained their center of mass positions during the ring-rotating nonradiative decay. The amino acids and cyclohexenimine ring are analogous to the string and button of a button-on-a-string spinner, otherwise known as button whirligigs. Thus, we refer to the ring-rotating nonradiative decay of porphyra-334 as a button-on-a-string mechanism. We also show that this mechanism results from porphyra-334 itself rather than from the surrounding water molecules. The present results indicate that the molecular \"spinner\" exists in aquatic organisms and protects them from UV with the aid of water.</p>","PeriodicalId":29796,"journal":{"name":"ACS Physical Chemistry Au","volume":"5 3","pages":"274-282"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12123545/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}