Hydrolytic deamination reactions of amidine and nucleobase derivatives

KM Uddin, AI Alrawashdeh, DJ Henry… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Amidines share the same N C─ N building framework with many essential biochemical
substances. In this work, we present a comparative mechanistic study on the deamination …

[PDF][PDF] A computational study of the ozonolysis of phenanthrene

M Almatarneh, E Al-Shamaileh, Z Ahmad… - … Physica Polonica A, 2017 - bibliotekanauki.pl
A computational study of the ozonolysis of phenanthrene has been carried out using DFT
methods (B3LYP and M06-2X). The reaction mechanism for the ozonolysis was studied in …

The gas‐phase ozonolysis reaction of methylbutenol: A mechanistic study

MH Almatarneh, IA Elayan… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The gas‐phase ozonolysis reaction of methylbutenol through the Criegee mechanism is
investigated. The initial reaction leads to a primary ozonide (POZ) formation with barriers in …

Hydration and secondary ozonide of the Criegee intermediate of sabinene

MH Almatarneh, IA Elayan, M Altarawneh… - ACS omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
A computational study of the formation of secondary ozonide (SOZ) from the Criegee
intermediates (CIs) of sabinene, including hydration reactions with H2O and 2H2O, was …

Mechanism for the deamination of ammeline, guanine, and their analogues

KM Uddin, DJ Henry, AI Alrawashdeh, PL Warburton… - Structural Chemistry, 2017 - Springer
Mechanisms for the deamination of ammeline (AMN), guanine (Gua), and their analogues
with nH 2 O (n= 1–3) have been investigated using B3LYP and G3MP2B3. The deamination …

Hydrolytic deamination mechanisms of guanosine monophosphate: A computational study

MH Almatarneh, RA Omeir, SAL Demour… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The computational importance of guanosine monophosphate (GMP) comes from its
importance in the synthesis of nucleic acids. Deamination reaction mechanisms, kinetics …

Mechanistic and spectral investigation on the deamination of ammeline and ammelide

MH Almatarneh, AAAA Abu-Saleh, IA Elayan - … and Theoretical Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Melamine and its metabolites: ammeline, ammelide, and cyanuric acid have attracted great
attention as food contaminants. They are added illegally to milk to increase the protein …

Bimolecular reactions of carbenes: Proton transfer mechanism

AAAA Abu-Saleh, MH Almatarneh, RA Poirier - Chemical Physics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Here we report the bimolecular reaction of trifluoromethylhydroxycarbene conformers and
the water-mediated mechanism of the 1, 2-proton shift for the unimolecular trans-conformer …

Computational Insights in DNA Methylation: Catalytic and Mechanistic Elucidations for Forming 3‐Methyl Cytosine

MH Almatarneh, GG Kayed, M Altarawneh… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Methylation at C5 position of cytosine (5 mC) is the most abundantly occurring methylation
process at CpG island, which has been well known as an epigenetic modification linked to …

The bimolecular catalytic transformation of methyl vinyl ketone oxide: A DFT study

IA Elayan, MH Almatarneh, JW Hollett - Chemical Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
The bimolecular reactions of methyl vinyl ketone oxide (MVK-OO) with H 2 O, H 2 S, NH 3,
their dimer forms, and CH 3 NH 2, have been studied. The reactions of (H 2 O) 2 and (NH 3) …