Unconventional singlet fission materials

T Ullrich, D Munz, DM Guldi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet fission (SF) is a photophysical downconversion pathway, in which a singlet excitation
transforms into two triplet excited states. As such, it constitutes an exciton multiplication …

Quantifying aromaticity with electron delocalisation measures

F Feixas, E Matito, J Poater, M Solà - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Aromaticity cannot be measured directly by any physical or chemical experiment because it
is not a well-defined magnitude. Its quantification is done indirectly from the measure of …

A comprehensive electron wavefunction analysis toolbox for chemists, Multiwfn

T Lu - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Analysis of electron wavefunction is a key component of quantum chemistry investigations
and is indispensable for the practical research of many chemical problems. After more than …

High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis

X Lei, Q Tang, Y Zheng, P Kidkhunthod, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and evolution of molecular oxygen, known as oxygen
electrocatalysis, is one of the most important reactions that are central to a range of energy …

An sp-hybridized all-carboatomic ring, cyclo [18] carbon: Bonding character, electron delocalization, and aromaticity

Z Liu, T Lu, Q Chen - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract cyclo [18] carbon is an all-carboatomic ring observed recently in experiment.
Inspired by the distinctive feature in structure and bonding nature, we explored …

A simple method of identifying π orbitals for non-planar systems and a protocol of studying π electronic structure

T Lu, Q Chen - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2020 - Springer
The characteristic of π electrons has a crucial role in determining various properties of
chemical systems, such as reactivity, aromaticity and spectroscopy. There are a large …

Nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) as an aromaticity criterion

Z Chen, CS Wannere, C Corminboeuf, R Puchta… - Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Few concepts are as frequently used as aromaticity in the current chemical literature. 1 This
may be quantified by ca. 300 000 papers dealing with the aromatic properties of chemical …

Understanding the reactivity of captodative ethylenes in polar cycloaddition reactions. A theoretical study

LR Domingo, E Chamorro, P Pérez - The Journal of organic …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The electrophilic/nucleophilic character of a series of captodative (CD) ethylenes involved in
polar cycloaddition reactions has been studied using DFT methods at the B3LYP/6-31G (d) …

Theoretical evaluation of electron delocalization in aromatic molecules by means of atoms in molecules (AIM) and electron localization function (ELF) topological …

J Poater, M Duran, M Sola, B Silvi - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
Benzene is the emblematic example of an aromatic molecule, and the problem of its
structure has given rise to a chemical serial story running over several decades. The …

Chemical bonding in crystals: new directions

C Gatti - Zeitschrift für Kristallographie-Crystalline Materials, 2005 - degruyter.com
Abstract Analysis of the chemical bonding in the position space, instead of or besides that in
the wave function (Hilbert) orbital space, has become increasingly popular for crystalline …