Effective strategy for polymer synthesis: Multicomponent reactions and click polymerization

C Wang, B Yu, W Li, W Zou, H Cong, Y Shen - Materials Today Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The rational selection of organic reactions in polymer synthesis is an important research
content of polymer science. In recent years, multicomponent reaction as an efficient and …

Hydrophobic functionalization reactions of structured cellulose nanomaterials: Mechanisms, kinetics and in silico multi-scale models

A Oberlintner, B Likozar, U Novak - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanoscale-interfaced cellulose nanomaterials are extracted from polysaccharides, which
are widely available in nature, biocompatible and biodegradable. Moreover, the latter have …

Nitrene formation is the first step of the thermal and photochemical decomposition reactions of organic azides

J Soto, M Algarra, D Peláez - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, the decomposition of a prototypical azide, isopropyl azide, both in the ground
and excited states, has been investigated through the use of multiconfigurational CASSCF …

Enhanced sampling simulations on transition-metal-catalyzed organic reactions: Zirconocene-catalyzed propylene polymerization and Sharpless epoxidation

X Han, TY Sun, YI Yang, J Zhang, J Qiu… - CCS …, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
The bond breaking and forming in chemical reactions is a typical rare event, which is one of
the difficult problems in molecular dynamics simulations. Numerous enhanced sampling …

Probing kinetic and mechanistic features of bulk azide–alkyne cycloaddition

A Galukhin, R Aleshin, R Nosov… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Bulk azide–alkyne cycloaddition between 1-azidodecane and phenyl propargyl ether is
studied in detail under the conditions of linear heating. The reaction mechanism involves …

Enhanced Sampling Simulation Reveals How Solvent Influences Chirogenesis of the Intra-Molecular Diels–Alder Reaction

X Han, J Zhang, YI Yang, Z Zhang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The timescale involved in chemical reactions is quite often beyond that of normal molecular
dynamics simulations. Here, we combine metadynamics with selective integrated tempering …

Insights into the Thermal and Photochemical Reaction Mechanisms of Azidoacetonitrile. Spectroscopic and MS‐CASPT2 Calculations

M Algarra, J Soto - ChemPhysChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This work studies the photochemical and thermal decompositions of azidoacetonitrile
(N3CH2CN) from both the experimental and theoretical points of view. The data of the …

Investigation of Huisgen's Noble metal catalyst click reaction mechanism for the synthesis of 1, 4-disubstituted 1, 2, 3-triazoles

AA Khairbek, MI Al-Zaben, R Puchta, MAAH Badawi… - Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current study delves into the mechanistic intricacies of azide-alkyne cycloaddition
reactions (MAAC) catalyzed by transition metals (M= Cu, Ag, and Au) bound to N …

Generating High-Precision Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Study Chemical Reaction Mechanisms Using Molecular Configuration Transformer

S Yuan, X Han, J Zhang, Z Xie, C Fan… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Theoretical studies on chemical reaction mechanisms have been crucial in organic
chemistry. Traditionally, calculating the manually constructed molecular conformations of …

Nanometals: As click catalysts for 1, 4-triazole cycloaddition (2020-till date)

KT Jha, PA Chawla - Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the search for efficient and sustainable catalysts for click chemistry has
gained significant attention. The process of copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition …