Atom tunneling in chemistry

J Meisner, J Kästner - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum mechanical tunneling of atoms is increasingly found to play an important role in
many chemical transformations. Experimentally, atom tunneling can be indirectly detected …

Quantum Dynamical Investigation of Dihydrogen–Hydride Exchange in a Transition-Metal Polyhydride Complex

M Aarabi, J Sarka, A Pandey, R Nieman… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ongoing shift toward clean, sustainable energy is a primary driving force behind
hydrogen fuel research. Safe and effective storage of hydrogen is a major challenge …

Mechanism of Ni N-heterocyclic carbene catalyst for C–O bond hydrogenolysis of diphenyl ether: a density functional study

B Sawatlon, T Wititsuwannakul… - Dalton …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalysts for aromatic C–O bond activation can potentially be used for the lignin degradation
process. We investigated the mechanisms of C–O bond hydrogenolysis of diphenyl ether …

“On‐the‐fly” Crystal: How to reliably and automatically characterize and construct potential energy surfaces

M Aarabi, A Pandey, B Poirier - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, the Crystal code, developed previously by the authors to find “holes” as well as
legitimate transition states in existing potential energy surface (PES) functions [JPC Lett. 11 …

Synthesis of iron hydride complexes relevant to hydrogen isotope exchange in pharmaceuticals

RP Yu, JM Darmon, SP Semproni, ZR Turner… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Addition of H2 gas to the bis (arylimidazolin-2-ylidene) pyridine iron bis (dinitrogen) complex
(H4-iPrCNC) Fe (N2) 2 resulted in facile oxidative addition of the H–H bond to yield a …

Free H2 Rotation vs Jahn–Teller Constraints in the Nonclassical Trigonal (TPB)Co–H2 Complex

WA Gunderson, DLM Suess, H Fong… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Proton exchange within the M–H2 moiety of (TPB) Co (H2)(Co–H2; TPB= B (o-C6H4P i Pr2)
3) by 2-fold rotation about the M–H2 axis is probed through EPR/ENDOR studies and a …

Der Tunneleffekt von Atomen in der Chemie

J Meisner, J Kästner - Angewandte Chemie, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Der quantenmechanische Tunneleffekt von Atomen wird immer häufiger als
wichtiger Aspekt in chemischen Reaktionen identifiziert. Experimentell kann man …

Effects of geometry and electronic structure on the molecular self-assembly of naphthyl-based dimers

M Šepelj, U Baumeister, T Ivšić… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Three new series of symmetric dimers containing a naphthoyloxybenzyl (NB),
benzoyloxynaphthyl (BN), and naphthoyloxysalicyl (NS) mesogenic core linked to an …

HSO4 sensing based on proton transfer in H-bonding complexes

M Alešković, N Basarić, N Došlić, V Tomišić… - Supramolecular …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Aminophenyl-substituted adamantane-dipyrromethane receptors 1 and 2 and
aminophenylpyrrole 3 showed a very pronounced and unique UV spectral response with in …

HH Bond activation

R Mas-Ballesté, A Lledós - … Inorganic Chemistry II (Second …, 2013 - portalrecerca.uab.cat
Dihydrogen is an essentially inert molecule that needs to be activated to take part in
chemical transformations. This chapter outlines, with a mechanistic perspective, the …