Free energies of proton-coupled electron transfer reagents and their applications

RG Agarwal, SC Coste, BD Groff, AM Heuer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present an update and revision to our 2010 review on the topic of proton-coupled
electron transfer (PCET) reagent thermochemistry. Over the past decade, the data and …

Hydrogen‐abstraction reactivity patterns from A to Y: The valence bond way

W Lai, C Li, H Chen, S Shaik - … Chemie International Edition, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Give us insight, not numbers” was Coulson's admonition to theoretical chemists.
This Review shows that the valence bond (VB)‐model provides insights and some good …

Spin‐forbidden reactions: computational insight into mechanisms and kinetics

JN Harvey - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many chemical reactions involve one or more changes in the total electronic spin of the
reacting system as part of one or more elementary steps. Computational and theoretical …

A theory for bioinorganic chemical reactivity of oxometal complexes and analogous oxidants: the exchange and orbital-selection rules

D Usharani, D Janardanan, C Li… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Over the past decades metalloenzymes and their synthetic models have emerged as an
area of increasing research interest. The metalloenzymes and their synthetic models oxidize …

Ironing out the photochemical and spin-crossover behavior of Fe (II) coordination compounds with computational chemistry

DC Ashley, E Jakubikova - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Effective strategies for designing Fe (II) coordination complexes with specifically tailored
spin-state energetics can lead to advances in many areas of inorganic and materials …

Do spin state and spin density affect hydrogen atom transfer reactivity?

CT Saouma, JM Mayer - Chemical science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The prevalence of hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions in chemical and biological
systems has prompted much interest in establishing and understanding the underlying …

Saturation Kinetics in Phenolic O–H Bond Oxidation by a Mononuclear Mn (III)–OH Complex Derived from Dioxygen

GB Wijeratne, B Corzine, VW Day… - Inorganic Chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
The mononuclear hydroxomanganese (III) complex,[MnIII (OH)(dpaq)]+, which is supported
by the amide-containing N5 ligand dpaq (dpaq= 2-[bis (pyridin-2-ylmethyl)] amino-N …

General reaction mode of hypervalent iodine trifluoromethylation reagent: a density functional theory study

L Ling, K Liu, X Li, Y Li - ACS Catalysis, 2015 - ACS Publications
The mechanisms of trifluoromethylation with hypervalent iodine trifluoromethylation reagent
(Togni's reagent 1) have been comprehensively studied by density functional theory (DFT) …

Introducing copper as catalyst for oxidative alkane dehydrogenation

A Conde, L Vilella, D Balcells… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The dehydrogenation of n-hexane and cycloalkanes giving n-hexene and cycloalkenes has
been observed in the reaction of such hydrocarbons with hydrogen peroxide, in the …

Generation, Spectroscopic Characterization, and Computational Analysis of a Six-Coordinate Cobalt(III)-Imidyl Complex with an Unusual S = 3/2 Ground State that …

J Yang, GL Tripodi, MTGM Derks, MS Seo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis and characterization of a mononuclear nonheme cobalt (III)-imidyl
complex,[Co (NTs)(TQA)(OTf)]+(1), with an S= 3/2 spin state that is capable of facilitating …