Quantum biology: An update and perspective

Y Kim, F Bertagna, EM D'souza, DJ Heyes… - Quantum …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Understanding the rules of life is one of the most important scientific endeavours and has
revolutionised both biology and biotechnology. Remarkable advances in observation …

Understanding biological hydrogen transfer through the lens of temperature dependent kinetic isotope effects

JP Klinman, AR Offenbacher - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) is a salient feature of many enzymatic C–H cleavage
mechanisms. In systems where kinetic isolation of HAT is achieved, selective labeling of …

Proton-coupled electron transfer guidelines, fair and square

R Tyburski, T Liu, SD Glover… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions are fundamental to energy transformation
reactions in natural and artificial systems and are increasingly recognized in areas such as …

An open quantum systems approach to proton tunnelling in DNA

L Slocombe, M Sacchi, J Al-Khalili - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
One of the most important topics in molecular biology is the genetic stability of DNA. One
threat to this stability is proton transfer along the hydrogen bonds of DNA that could lead to …

Proton-coupled energy transfer in molecular triads

B Pettersson Rimgard, Z Tao, GA Parada, LF Cotter… - Science, 2022 - science.org
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Deuterium kinetic isotope effects as redox mechanistic criterions

S Fukuzumi, YM Lee, W Nam - Bulletin of the Korean Chemical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This account article focuses on deuterium kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) used as criterions to
elucidate redox mechanisms including proton‐, hydrogen‐and hydride‐transfer reactions …

Theoretical perspectives on non-Born–Oppenheimer effects in chemistry

S Hammes-Schiffer - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Born–Oppenheimer approximation, which assumes that the electrons respond
instantaneously to the motion of the nuclei, breaks down for a wide range of chemical and …

Origins of enzyme catalysis: Experimental findings for C–H activation, new models, and their relevance to prevailing theoretical constructs

JP Klinman, AR Offenbacher, S Hu - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The physical basis for enzymatic rate accelerations is a subject of great fundamental interest
and of direct relevance to areas that include the de novo design of green catalysts and the …

Heavy‐Atom Quantum Tunnelling in Spin Crossovers of Nitrenes

ER Heller, JO Richardson - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We simulate two recent matrix‐isolation experiments at cryogenic temperatures, in which a
nitrene undergoes spin crossover from its triplet state to a singlet state via quantum …

Photoacid dynamics in the green fluorescent protein

JJ van Thor, PM Champion - Annual Review of Physical …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The photoacid dynamics of fluorescent proteins include both electronic excited-and ground-
state mechanisms of proton transfer. The associated characteristic timescales of these …