Variational transition state theory: theoretical framework and recent developments

JL Bao, DG Truhlar - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
This article reviews the fundamentals of variational transition state theory (VTST), its recent
theoretical development, and some modern applications. The theoretical methods reviewed …

Modeling the kinetics of bimolecular reactions

A Fernández-Ramos, JA Miller, SJ Klippenstein… - Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the theoretical and computational modeling of bimolecular
reactions, especially with generally applicable methods for kinetics (ie, overall rates as …

Kinetics and dynamics study of the OH+ C 2 H 6→ H 2 O+ C 2 H 5 reaction based on an analytical global potential energy surface

C Rangel, M Garcia-Chamorro, JC Corchado… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
To describe the gas-phase hydrogen abstraction reaction between the hydroxyl radical and
the ethane molecule, an analytical full-dimensional potential energy surface was developed …

Transition-State Geometry Measurements from 13C Isotope Effects. The Experimental Transition State for the Epoxidation of Alkenes with Oxaziridines

JS Hirschi, T Takeya, C Hang… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We here suggest and evaluate a methodology for the measurement of specific interatomic
distances from a combination of theoretical calculations and experimentally measured 13C …

Recrossing and Tunneling in the Kinetics Study of the OH + CH4 → H2O + CH3 Reaction

YV Suleimanov, J Espinosa-Garcia - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Thermal rate constants and several kinetic isotope effects were evaluated for the OH+ CH4
hydrogen abstraction reaction using two kinetics approaches, ring polymer molecular …

Benchmark ab initio characterization of the abstraction and substitution pathways of the OH+ CH 4/C 2 H 6 reactions

B Gruber, G Czakó - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a comprehensive ab initio investigation of the OH+ CH4/C2H6 reactions using a
high-level composite approach based on CCSD (T)-F12b/aug-cc-pVTZ geometries and …

Combined valence bond-molecular mechanics potential-energy surface and direct dynamics study of rate constants and kinetic isotope effects for the H+ C2H6 …

A Chakraborty, Y Zhao, H Lin… - The Journal of chemical …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
This article presents a multifaceted study of the reaction H+ C 2 H 6→ H 2+ C 2 H 5 and
three of its deuterium-substituted isotopologs. First we present high-level electronic structure …

Isotopic fractionation by plant nitrate reductase, twenty years later

G Tcherkez, GD Farquhar - Functional Plant Biology, 2006 - CSIRO Publishing
Plant nitrate reductase, the enzyme that reduces nitrate (NO3–) to nitrite (NO2–), is known to
fractionate N isotopes, depleting nitrite in 15N compared with substrate nitrate. Nearly 20 …

Thermal Rate Coefficients and Kinetic Isotope Effects for the Reaction OH + CH4 → H2O + CH3 on an ab Initio-Based Potential Energy Surface

J Li, H Guo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermal rate coefficients for the title reaction and its various isotopologues are computed
using a tunneling-corrected transition-state theory on a global potential energy surface …

The Minnesota density functionals and their applications to problems in mineralogy and geochemistry

Y Zhao, DG Truhlar - Rev. Mineral. Geochem, 2010 - degruyter.com
Quantum mechanical electronic structure calculations are playing an increasingly useful role
in many areas of mineralogy and geochemistry. This review introduces the density functional …