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PK Chattaraj… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Chemistry is the science of bond making and bond breaking. A thorough knowledge of these
processes in the course of the chemical reaction lies at the heart of any reaction mechanism …

Metalloaromaticity

F Feixas, E Matito, J Poater… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, the study of aromaticity has experienced enormous progress. The new
discoveries, which include species such as the metallabenzenes, heterometallabenzenes …

[HTML][HTML] Atomic clusters: Structure, reactivity, bonding, and dynamics

R Pal, A Poddar, PK Chattaraj - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Atomic clusters lie somewhere in between isolated atoms and extended solids with distinctly
different reactivity patterns. They are known to be useful as catalysts facilitating several …

CBe 5 E−(E= Al, Ga, In, Tl): planar pentacoordinate carbon in heptaatomic clusters

AC Castro, G Martínez-Guajardo, T Johnson… - Physical Chemistry …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of clusters with the general formula CBe5E−(E= Al, Ga, In, Tl) are theoretically
shown to have a planar pentacoordinate carbon atom. The structures show a simple and …

Theoretical investigation of hydrogen adsorption in all-metal aromatic clusters

K Srinivasu, SK Ghosh, R Das, S Giri, PK Chattaraj - RSC advances, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular hydrogen adsorption in binary all-metal aromatic systems has been explored
using ab initio quantum chemical calculations. For this study, we have considered different …

Electron affinity, electronegativity, and electrophilicity of atoms and ions

PK Chattaraj, S Duley - Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 2010 - ACS Publications
The electron affinity, electronegativity, and electrophilicity of several neutral atoms and their
positive and negative ions are calculated at various levels of theory using different basis sets …

Stabilizing carbon-lithium stars

N Perez-Peralta, M Contreras, W Tiznado… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
We have explored in silico the potential energy surfaces of the C5Linn− 6 (n= 5, 6, and 7)
clusters using the Gradient Embedded Genetic Algorithm (GEGA) and other computational …

The Electronic Structure of the Al3 Anion: Is it Aromatic?

JM Mercero, E Matito, F Ruipérez… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Multiconfigurational high‐level electronic structure calculations show that the \rmAl-
\hfill\atop3\hfill ring‐like cluster anion has three close low‐lying electronic states of different …

Intriguing structural, bonding and reactivity features in some beryllium containing complexes

S Pan, G Jana, R Saha, L Zhao… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Although the toxicity of beryllium compounds causes impediments in experiments involving
them, beryllium chemistry has seen a recent upsurge of interest and considerable progress …

β-d-Glucopyranose–Silver+ (1: 1) complex assisted aromaticity involving electron deficient X3 (X= Be, Mg) core

S Mondal, D Chakraborty, PK Chattaraj - Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Seeing the frontier molecular orbitals (FMO) picture of β-d-glucopyranose–silver+ (1: 1)
complex ([Ag (C 6 H 12 O 6)]+) reported in a recent article (Mondal, 2024)[53], we used the …