Ring Vibrations to Sense Anionic Ibuprofen in Aqueous Solution as Revealed by Resonance Raman

S Gómez, N Rojas-Valencia, T Giovannini, A Restrepo… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
We unravel the potentialities of resonance Raman spectroscopy to detect ibuprofen in
diluted aqueous solutions. In particular, we exploit a fully polarizable quantum …

Dissection of the Mechanism of the Wittig Reaction

P Farfán, S Gómez, A Restrepo - The Journal of Organic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A wide variety of descriptors of the evolution of bonding, rooted in the formalism of quantum
mechanics, but otherwise conceptually and methodologically independent of each other …

Dimers of formic acid: Structures, stability, and double proton transfer

P Farfán, A Echeverri, E Diaz, JD Tapia… - The Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
A stochastic search of the potential energy surface for the formic acid dimers results in 21
well-defined minima. A number of structures are reported here for the first time, others have …

Thermodynamics and intermolecular interactions during the insertion of anionic naproxen into model cell membranes

N Rojas-Valencia, S Gomez… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The insertion process of Naproxen into model dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC)
membranes is studied by resorting to state-of-the-art classical and quantum mechanical …

Absorption spectra of xanthines in aqueous solution: A computational study

S Gómez, T Giovannini, C Cappelli - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a detailed computational analysis of the UV/Vis spectra of caffeine, paraxanthine
and theophylline in aqueous solution. A hierarchy of solvation approaches for modeling the …

An efficient and robust procedure to calculate absorption spectra of aqueous charged species applied to NO 2−

L Uribe, S Gómez, T Giovannini, F Egidi… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Accurate calculation of absorption spectra of aqueous NO2− requires rigorously sampling
the quantum potential energy surfaces for microsolvation of NO2− with at least five explicit …

Microsolvation of NO 3−: Structural exploration and bonding analysis

E Flórez, N Acelas, C Ibargüen, S Mondal… - RSC …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Exploration of the potential energy surfaces (PESs) of various microsolvated species
associated with the microsolvation of the nitrate anion using density functional theory …

Evolution of bonding during the insertion of anionic ibuprofen into model cell membranes

N Rojas-Valencia, S Gómez, S Montillo… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Descriptors of chemical bonding derived from five different analysis tools based on quantum
mechanics (natural charges, electron density differences, atoms in molecules (AIM), natural …

Microsolvation of small cations and anions

C Hadad, E Florez, N Acelas, G Merino… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the theoretical treatment of microsolvation of small ions, a problem with
practical implications in chemistry, physics, and biology, are exposed. In particular, we …

The rich and complex potential energy surface of the ethanol dimer

A Vargas-Caamal, F Ortiz-Chi, D Moreno… - Theoretical Chemistry …, 2015 - Springer
The potential energy surface of the ethanol dimer is systematically explored via density
functional theory and high level ab initio computations. A picture with a multitude of local …