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Manchev YT, Burn MJ, Popelier PLA. Ichor: A Python library for computational chemistry data management and machine learning force field development. J Comput Chem 2024. [PMID: 39215569 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.27477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2024] [Revised: 07/09/2024] [Accepted: 07/18/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
Abstract
We present ichor, an open-source Python library that simplifies data management in computational chemistry and streamlines machine learning force field development. Ichor implements many easily extensible file management tools, in addition to a lazy file reading system, allowing efficient management of hundreds of thousands of computational chemistry files. Data from calculations can be readily stored into databases for easy sharing and post-processing. Raw data can be directly processed by ichor to create machine learning-ready datasets. In addition to powerful data-related capabilities, ichor provides interfaces to popular workload management software employed by High Performance Computing clusters, making for effortless submission of thousands of separate calculations with only a single line of Python code. Furthermore, a simple-to-use command line interface has been implemented through a series of menu systems to further increase accessibility and efficiency of common important ichor tasks. Finally, ichor implements general tools for visualization and analysis of datasets and tools for measuring machine-learning model quality both on test set data and in simulations. With the current functionalities, ichor can serve as an end-to-end data procurement, data management, and analysis solution for machine-learning force-field development.
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- Yulian T Manchev
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Laplaza R, Wodrich MD, Corminboeuf C. Overcoming the Pitfalls of Computing Reaction Selectivity from Ensembles of Transition States. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:7363-7370. [PMID: 38990895 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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The prediction of reaction selectivity is a challenging task for computational chemistry, not only because many molecules adopt multiple conformations but also due to the exponential relationship between effective activation energies and rate constants. To account for molecular flexibility, an increasing number of methods exist that generate conformational ensembles of transition state (TS) structures. Typically, these TS ensembles are Boltzmann weighted and used to compute selectivity assuming Curtin-Hammett conditions. This strategy, however, can lead to erroneous predictions if the appropriate filtering of the conformer ensembles is not conducted. Here, we demonstrate how any possible selectivity can be obtained by processing the same sets of TS ensembles for a model reaction. To address the burdensome filtering task in a consistent and automated way, we introduce marc, a tool for the modular analysis of representative conformers that aids in avoiding human errors while minimizing the number of reoptimization computations needed to obtain correct reaction selectivity.
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- Ruben Laplaza
- Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Lalith N, Singh AR, Gauthier JA. The Importance of Reaction Energy in Predicting Chemical Reaction Barriers with Machine Learning Models. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202300933. [PMID: 38517585 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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Improving our fundamental understanding of complex heterocatalytic processes increasingly relies on electronic structure simulations and microkinetic models based on calculated energy differences. In particular, calculation of activation barriers, usually achieved through compute-intensive saddle point search routines, remains a serious bottleneck in understanding trends in catalytic activity for highly branched reaction networks. Although the well-known Brønsted-Evans-Polyani (BEP) scaling - a one-feature linear regression model - has been widely applied in such microkinetic models, they still rely on calculated reaction energies and may not generalize beyond a single facet on a single class of materials, e. g., a terrace sites on transition metals. For highly branched and energetically shallow reaction networks, such as electrochemical CO2 reduction or wastewater remediation, calculating even reaction energies on many surfaces can become computationally intractable due to the combinatorial explosion of states that must be considered. Here, we investigate the feasibility of activation barrier prediction without knowledge of the reaction energy using linear and nonlinear machine learning (ML) models trained on a new database of over 500 dehydrogenation activation barriers. We also find that inclusion of the reaction energy significantly improves both classes of ML models, but complex nonlinear models can achieve performance similar to the simplest BEP scaling when predicting activation barriers on new systems. Additionally, inclusion of the reaction energy significantly improves generalizability to new systems beyond the training set. Our results suggest that the reaction energy is a critical feature to consider when building models to predict activation barriers, indicating that efforts to reliably predict reaction energies through, e. g., the Open Catalyst Project and others, will be an important route to effective model development for more complex systems.
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- Nithin Lalith
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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Steiner M, Reiher M. A human-machine interface for automatic exploration of chemical reaction networks. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3680. [PMID: 38693117 PMCID: PMC11063077 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47997-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024] Open
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Autonomous reaction network exploration algorithms offer a systematic approach to explore mechanisms of complex chemical processes. However, the resulting reaction networks are so vast that an exploration of all potentially accessible intermediates is computationally too demanding. This renders brute-force explorations unfeasible, while explorations with completely pre-defined intermediates or hard-wired chemical constraints, such as element-specific coordination numbers, are not flexible enough for complex chemical systems. Here, we introduce a STEERING WHEEL to guide an otherwise unbiased automated exploration. The STEERING WHEEL algorithm is intuitive, generally applicable, and enables one to focus on specific regions of an emerging network. It also allows for guiding automated data generation in the context of mechanism exploration, catalyst design, and other chemical optimization challenges. The algorithm is demonstrated for reaction mechanism elucidation of transition metal catalysts. We highlight how to explore catalytic cycles in a systematic and reproducible way. The exploration objectives are fully adjustable, allowing one to harness the STEERING WHEEL for both structure-specific (accurate) calculations as well as for broad high-throughput screening of possible reaction intermediates.
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- Miguel Steiner
- ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
- ETH Zurich, NCCR Catalysis, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
- ETH Zurich, NCCR Catalysis, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Harabuchi Y, Yokoyama T, Matsuoka W, Oki T, Iwata S, Maeda S. Differentiating the Yield of Chemical Reactions Using Parameters in First-Order Kinetic Equations to Identify Elementary Steps That Control the Reactivity from Complicated Reaction Path Networks. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:2883-2890. [PMID: 38564273 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c00204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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The yield of a chemical reaction is obtained by solving its rate equation. This study introduces an approach for differentiating yields by utilizing the parameters of the rate equation, which is expressed as a first-order linear differential equation. The yield derivative for a specific pair of reactants and products is derived by mathematically expressing the rate constant matrix contraction method, which is a simple kinetic analysis method. The parameters of the rate equation are the Gibbs energies of the intermediates and transition states in the reaction path network used to formulate the rate equation. Thus, our approach for differentiating the yield allows a numerical evaluation of the contribution of energy variation to the yield for each intermediate and transition state in the reaction path network. In other words, a comparison of these values automatically extracts the factors affecting the yield from a complicated reaction path network consisting of numerous reaction paths and intermediates. This study verifies the behavior of the proposed approach through numerical experiments on the reaction path networks of a model system and the Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation reaction. Moreover, the possibility of using this approach for designing ligands in organometallic catalysts is discussed.
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- Yu Harabuchi
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Kita 21, Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Kita 21, Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Kita 21, Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Okada H, Maeda S. On Accelerating Substrate Optimization Using Computational Gibbs Energy Barriers: A Numerical Consideration Utilizing a Computational Data Set. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:7123-7131. [PMID: 38371820 PMCID: PMC10870292 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c09066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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Substrate optimization is a time- and resource-consuming step in organic synthesis. Recent advances in chemo- and materials-informatics provide systematic and efficient procedures utilizing tools such as Bayesian optimization (BO). This study explores the possibility of reducing the required experiments further by utilizing computational Gibbs energy barriers. To thoroughly validate the impact of using computational Gibbs energy barriers in BO-assisted substrate optimization, this study employs a computational Gibbs energy barrier data set in the literature and performs an extensive numerical investigation virtually regarding the Gibbs energy barriers as virtual experimental results and those with systematic and random noises as virtual computational results. The present numerical investigation shows that even the computational reactivity affected by noises of as much as 20 kJ/mol helps reduce the number of required experiments.
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- Hiroaki Okada
- Graduate
School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Institute
for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- ERATO
Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery
Project, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Research
and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Rey J, Chizallet C, Rocca D, Bučko T, Badawi M. Reference-Quality Free Energy Barriers in Catalysis from Machine Learning Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202312392. [PMID: 38055209 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202312392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 11/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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For the first time, we report calculations of the free energies of activation of cracking and isomerization reactions of alkenes that combine several different electronic structure methods with molecular dynamics simulations. We demonstrate that the use of a high level of theory (here Random Phase Approximation-RPA) is necessary to bridge the gap between experimental and computed values. These transformations, catalyzed by zeolites and proceeding via cationic intermediates and transition states, are building blocks of many chemical transformations for valorization of long chain paraffins originating, e.g., from plastic waste, vegetable oils, Fischer-Tropsch waxes or crude oils. Compared with the free energy barriers computed at the PBE+D2 production level of theory via constrained ab initio molecular dynamics, the barriers computed at the RPA level by the application of Machine Learning thermodynamic Perturbation Theory (MLPT) show a significant decrease for isomerization reaction and an increase of a similar magnitude for cracking, yielding an unprecedented agreement with the results obtained by experiments and kinetic modeling.
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- Jérôme Rey
- Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques LPCT UMR 7019-CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lés-Nancy, France
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- IFP Energies nouvelles, Rond-Point de l'Ēchangeur de Solaize, BP3, 69360, Solaize, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques LPCT UMR 7019-CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lés-Nancy, France
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- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, SK-84215, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-84236, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques LPCT UMR 7019-CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lés-Nancy, France
- Laboratoire Lorrain de Chimie Moléculaire L2CM UMR 7053-CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Metz, France
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Sarfaraz S, Yar M, Sheikh NS, Bayach I, Ayub K. Transition Metal-Doped C 20 Fullerene-Based Single-Atom Catalysts with High Catalytic Activity for Hydrogen Dissociation Reaction. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:14077-14088. [PMID: 37091387 PMCID: PMC10116631 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c00721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
Hydrogen dissociation is a key step in almost all hydrogenation reactions; therefore, an efficient and cost-effective catalyst with a favorable band structure for this step is highly desirable. In the current work, transition metal-based C20 (M@C20) complexes are designed and evaluated as single-atom catalysts (SACs) for hydrogen dissociation reaction (HDR). Interaction energy (E int) analysis reveals that all the M@C20 complexes are thermodynamically stable, whereas the highest stability is observed for the Ni@C20 complex (E int = -6.14 eV). Moreover, the best catalytic performance for H2 dissociation reaction is computed for the Zn@C20 catalyst (E ads = 0.53 eV) followed by Ti@C20 (E ads = 0.65 eV) and Sc@C20 (E ads = 0.76 eV) among all considered catalysts. QTAIM analyses reveal covalent or shared shell interactions in H2* + M@C20 systems, which promote the process of H2 dissociation over M@C20 complexes. NBO and EDD analyses declare that transfer of charge from the metal atom to the antibonding orbital of H2 causes dissociation of the H-H bond. Overall outcomes of this study reveal that the Zn@C20 catalyst can act as a highly efficient, low-cost, abundant, and precious metal-free SAC to effectively catalyze HDR.
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- Sehrish Sarfaraz
- Department
of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, KPK, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Department
of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, KPK, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Chemical
Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti
Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE1410, Brunei Darussalam
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- Department
of Chemistry, College of Science, King Faisal
University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, KPK, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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Zhang H, Wang X, Song R, Ding W, Li F, Ji L. Emerging Metabolic Profiles of Sulfonamide Antibiotics by Cytochromes P450: A Computational-Experimental Synergy Study on Emerging Pollutants. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:5368-5379. [PMID: 36921339 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c00071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Metabolism, especially by CYP450 enzymes, is the main reason for mediating the toxification and detoxification of xenobiotics in humans, while some uncommon metabolic pathways, especially for emerging pollutants, probably causing idiosyncratic toxicity are easily overlooked. The pollution of sulfonamide antibiotics in aqueous system has attracted increasing public attention. Hydroxylation of the central amine group can trigger a series of metabolic processes of sulfonamide antibiotics in humans; however, this work parallelly reported the coupling and fragmenting initiated by amino H-abstraction of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) catalyzed by human CYP450 enzymes. Elucidation of the emerging metabolic profiles was mapped via a multistep synergy between computations and experiments, involving preliminary DFT computations and in vitro and in vivo assays, profiling adverse effects, and rationalizing the fundamental factors via targeted computations. Especially, the confirmed SMX dimer was shown to potentially act as a metabolism disruptor in humans, while spin aromatic delocalization resulting in the low electron donor ability of amino radicals was revealed as the fundamental factor to enable coupling of sulfonamide antibiotics by CYP450 through the nonconventional nonrebound pathway. This work may further strengthen the synergistic use of computations prior to experiments to avoid wasteful experimental screening efforts in environmental chemistry and toxicology.
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- Huanni Zhang
- School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
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- School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
- International Center for Research on Innovative Biobased Materials (ICRI-BioM)─International Research Agenda, Lodz University of Technology, Zeromskiego 116, Lodz 90-924, Poland
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Bayach I, Sarfaraz S, Sheikh NS, Alamer K, Almutlaq N, Ayub K. Hydrogen Dissociation Reaction on First-Row Transition Metal Doped Nanobelts. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 16:2792. [PMID: 37049085 PMCID: PMC10096363 DOI: 10.3390/ma16072792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Revised: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Zigzag molecular nanobelts have recently captured the interest of scientists because of their appealing aesthetic structures, intriguing chemical reactivities, and tantalizing features. In the current study, first-row transition metals supported on an H6-N3-belt[6]arene nanobelt are investigated for the electrocatalytic properties of these complexes for the hydrogen dissociation reaction (HDR). The interaction of the doped transition metal atom with the nanobelt is evaluated through interaction energy analysis, which reveals the significant thermodynamic stability of TM-doped nanobelt complexes. Electronic properties such as frontier molecular orbitals and natural bond orbitals analyses are also computed, to estimate the electronic perturbation upon doping. The highest reduction in the HOMO-LUMO energy gap compared to the bare nanobelt is seen in the case of the Zn@NB catalyst (4.76 eV). Furthermore, for the HDR reaction, the Sc@NB catalyst displays the best catalytic activity among the studied catalysts, with a hydrogen dissociation barrier of 0.13 eV, whereas the second-best catalytic activity is observed for the Zn@NB catalyst (0.36 eV). It is further found that multiple active sites, i.e., the presence of the metal atom and nitrogen atom moiety, help to facilitate the dissociation of the hydrogen molecule. These key findings of this study enhance the understanding of the relative stability, electronic features, and catalytic bindings of various TM@NB catalysts.
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- Imene Bayach
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE1410, Brunei
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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Harabuchi Y, Hayashi H, Takano H, Mita T, Maeda S. Oxidation and Reduction Pathways in the Knowles Hydroamination via a Photoredox-Catalyzed Radical Reaction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202211936. [PMID: 36336664 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202211936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Systematic reaction path exploration revealed the entire mechanism of Knowles's light-promoted catalytic intramolecular hydroamination. Bond formation/cleavage competes with single electron transfer (SET) between the catalyst and substrate. These processes are described by adiabatic processes through transition states in an electronic state and non-radiative transitions through the seam of crossings (SX) between different electronic states. This study determined the energetically favorable SET path by introducing a practical computational model representing SET as non-adiabatic transitions via SXs between substrate's potential energy surfaces for different charge states adjusted based on the catalyst's redox potential. Calculations showed that the reduction and proton shuttle process proceeded concertedly. Also, the relative importance of SET paths (giving the product and leading back to the reactant) varies depending on the catalyst's redox potential, affecting the yield.
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- Yu Harabuchi
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Kita 21, Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan.,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Kita 21, Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan.,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Kita 21, Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan.,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Kita 21, Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan.,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Kita 21, Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan.,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan.,Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Shah AB, Sarfaraz S, Yar M, Sheikh NS, Hammud HH, Ayub K. Remarkable Single Atom Catalyst of Transition Metal (Fe, Co & Ni) Doped on C 2N Surface for Hydrogen Dissociation Reaction. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 13:nano13010029. [PMID: 36615939 PMCID: PMC9823351 DOI: 10.3390/nano13010029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
Currently, hydrogen is recognized as the best alternative for fossil fuels because of its sustainable nature and environmentally friendly processing. In this study, hydrogen dissociation reaction is studied theoretically on the transition metal doped carbon nitride (C2N) surface through single atom catalysis. Each TMs@C2N complex is evaluated to obtain the most stable spin state for catalytic reaction. In addition, electronic properties (natural bond orbital NBO & frontier molecular orbital FMO) of the most stable spin state complex are further explored. During dissociation, hydrogen is primarily adsorbed on metal doped C2N surface and then dissociated heterolytically between metal and nitrogen atom of C2N surface. Results revealed that theFe@C2N surface is the most suitable catalyst for H2 dissociation reaction with activation barrier of 0.36 eV compared with Ni@C2N (0.40 eV) and Co@C2N (0.45 eV) complexes. The activation barrier for H2 dissociation reaction is quite low in case of Fe@C2N surface, which is comparatively better than already reported noble metal catalysts.
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- Ahmed Bilal Shah
- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE1410, Brunei
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
- Correspondence: (H.H.H.); (K.A.)
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
- Correspondence: (H.H.H.); (K.A.)
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Nandy A, Adamji H, Kastner DW, Vennelakanti V, Nazemi A, Liu M, Kulik HJ. Using Computational Chemistry To Reveal Nature’s Blueprints for Single-Site Catalysis of C–H Activation. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c02096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Aditya Nandy
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Suzuki K, Maeda S. Multistructural microiteration combined with QM/MM-ONIOM electrostatic embedding. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:16762-16773. [PMID: 35775395 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02270b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Multistructural microiteration (MSM) is a method to take account of contributions of multiple surrounding structures in a geometrical optimization or reaction path calculation using the quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) ONIOM method. In this study, we combined MSM with the electrostatic embedding (EE) scheme of the QM/MM-ONIOM method by extending its original formulation for mechanical embedding (ME). MSM-EE takes account of the polarization in the QM region induced by point charges assigned to atoms in the multiple surrounding structures, where the point charges are scaled by the weight factor of each surrounding structure determined through MSM. The performance of MSM-EE was compared with that of the other methods, i.e., ONIOM-ME, ONIOM-EE, and MSM-ME, by applying them to three chemical processes: (1) chorismate-to-prephenate transformation in aqueous solution, (2) the same transformation as (1) in an enzyme, and (3) hydroxylation in p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase. These numerical tests of MSM-EE yielded barriers and reaction energies close to experimental values with computational costs comparable to those of the other three methods.
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- Kimichi Suzuki
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan. .,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan. .,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.,Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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Laplaza R, Sobez JG, Wodrich MD, Reiher M, Corminboeuf C. The (not so) simple prediction of enantioselectivity - a pipeline for high-fidelity computations. Chem Sci 2022; 13:6858-6864. [PMID: 35774159 PMCID: PMC9200111 DOI: 10.1039/d2sc01714h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The computation of reaction selectivity represents an appealing complementary route to experimental studies and a powerful means to refine catalyst design strategies. Accurately establishing the selectivity of reactions facilitated by molecular catalysts, however, remains a challenging task for computational chemistry. The small free energy differences that lead to large variations in the enantiomeric ratio (er) represent particularly tricky quantities to predict with sufficient accuracy to be helpful for prioritizing experiments. Further complicating this problem is the fact that standard approaches typically consider only one or a handful of conformers identified through human intuition as pars pro toto of the conformational space. Obviously, this assumption can potentially lead to dramatic failures should key energetic low-lying structures be missed. Here, we introduce a multi-level computational pipeline leveraging the graph-based Molassembler library to construct an ensemble of molecular catalysts. The manipulation and interpretation of molecules as graphs provides a powerful and direct route to tailored functionalization and conformer generation that facilitates high-throughput mechanistic investigations of chemical reactions. The capabilities of this approach are validated by examining a Rh(iii) catalyzed asymmetric C-H activation reaction and assessing the limitations associated with the underlying ligand design model. Specifically, the presence of remarkably flexible chiral Cp ligands, which induce the experimentally observed high level of selectivity, present a rich configurational landscape where multiple unexpected conformations contribute to the reported enantiomeric ratios (er). Using Molassembler, we show that considering about 20 transition state conformations per catalysts, which are generated with little human intervention and are not tied to "back-of-the-envelope" models, accurately reproduces experimental er values with limited computational expense.
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- Rubén Laplaza
- Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Switzerland
- National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10 8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Switzerland
- National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10 8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Rajalakshmi C, Krishnan A, Saranya S, Anilkumar G, Thomas VI. A detailed theoretical investigation to unravel the molecular mechanism of the ligand-free copper-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling reaction. Org Biomol Chem 2022; 20:4539-4552. [PMID: 35388388 DOI: 10.1039/d2ob00371f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
The Suzuki-Miyaura coupling (SMC) represents a very efficacious method for constructing C-C bonds in organic synthesis. The ligand-free variants of SMC have been grabbing attention these days. Despite this momentousness, the mechanistic details of the ligand-free variants are scant in the literature. Herein, we have carried out a detailed mechanistic investigation into the ligand-free Cu-catalyzed SMC of unsaturated organic halides with aryl boronic acid with the aid of density functional theory (DFT) calculations employing the conductor-like polarizable continuum model (CPCM) method. The present study elucidates that in the absence of ancillary ligands on the metal, the substrates, base, and solvent molecules could act as pseudo-ancillary ligands to facilitate the cross-coupling reaction. The investigation further revealed that unsaturated halides like alkynyl halides/vinyl halides could act as good ancillary ligands for copper by forming a Cu-π intermediate and promoting a facile transmetalation process. However, regarding the oxidative addition and reductive elimination steps, a concerted pathway is observed contrary to Pd catalyzed Suzuki coupling, owing to the instability of Cu(III) species and the favourability of Csp2-Csp bond formation. In the whole set of mechanisms explored, oxidative addition/oxidative nucleophilic substitution was the rate-determining step in all the cases. A thermodynamically stable π-coordinated intermediate species where the substrate and base molecule are coordinated to the metal center is identified as the rate-determining species for the ligand-free Suzuki cross-coupling reaction. The presence of the aforesaid intermediate increases the energy span and consequently the activation barrier for the rate-determining step. This study unveiled a theoretical rationale for the high-temperature requirement in the ligand-free Cu-catalyzed SMC reaction.
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- C Rajalakshmi
- Department of Chemistry, CMS College Kottayam (Autonomous), Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, CMS College Kottayam (Autonomous), Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India.
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarsini Hills P.O, Kottayam, Kerala, 686560, India.
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarsini Hills P.O, Kottayam, Kerala, 686560, India. .,Institute for Integrated Programmes and Research in Basic Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarsini Hills P.O, Kottayam, Kerala, India 686560
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- Department of Chemistry, CMS College Kottayam (Autonomous), Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India. .,Institute for Integrated Programmes and Research in Basic Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarsini Hills P.O, Kottayam, Kerala, India 686560
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Sumiya Y, Harabuchi Y, Nagata Y, Maeda S. Quantum Chemical Calculations to Trace Back Reaction Paths for the Prediction of Reactants. JACS AU 2022; 2:1181-1188. [PMID: 35647604 PMCID: PMC9131471 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.2c00157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The long-due development of a computational method for the ab initio prediction of chemical reactants that provide a target compound has been hampered by the combinatorial explosion that occurs when reactions consist of multiple elementary reaction processes. To address this challenge, we have developed a quantum chemical calculation method that can enumerate the reactant candidates from a given target compound by combining an exhaustive automated reaction path search method with a kinetics method for narrowing down the possibilities. Two conventional name reactions were then assessed by tracing back the reaction paths using this new method to determine whether the known reactants could be identified. Our method is expected to be a powerful tool for the prediction of reactants and the discovery of new reactions.
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- Yosuke Sumiya
- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Institute
for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- ERATO
Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery
Project, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Institute
for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- ERATO
Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery
Project, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Institute
for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- ERATO
Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery
Project, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
- Research
and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Nandy A, Duan C, Goffinet C, Kulik HJ. New Strategies for Direct Methane-to-Methanol Conversion from Active Learning Exploration of 16 Million Catalysts. JACS AU 2022; 2:1200-1213. [PMID: 35647589 PMCID: PMC9135396 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.2c00176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Revised: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Despite decades of effort, no earth-abundant homogeneous catalysts have been discovered that can selectively oxidize methane to methanol. We exploit active learning to simultaneously optimize methane activation and methanol release calculated with machine learning-accelerated density functional theory in a space of 16 M candidate catalysts including novel macrocycles. By constructing macrocycles from fragments inspired by synthesized compounds, we ensure synthetic realism in our computational search. Our large-scale search reveals that low-spin Fe(II) compounds paired with strong-field (e.g., P or S-coordinating) ligands have among the best energetic tradeoffs between hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) and methanol release. This observation contrasts with prior efforts that have focused on high-spin Fe(II) with weak-field ligands. By decoupling equatorial and axial ligand effects, we determine that negatively charged axial ligands are critical for more rapid release of methanol and that higher-valency metals [i.e., M(III) vs M(II)] are likely to be rate-limited by slow methanol release. With full characterization of barrier heights, we confirm that optimizing for HAT does not lead to large oxo formation barriers. Energetic span analysis reveals designs for an intermediate-spin Mn(II) catalyst and a low-spin Fe(II) catalyst that are predicted to have good turnover frequencies. Our active learning approach to optimize two distinct reaction energies with efficient global optimization is expected to be beneficial for the search of large catalyst spaces where no prior designs have been identified and where linear scaling relationships between reaction energies or barriers may be limited or unknown.
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- Aditya Nandy
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Steiner M, Reiher M. Autonomous Reaction Network Exploration in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis. Top Catal 2022; 65:6-39. [PMID: 35185305 PMCID: PMC8816766 DOI: 10.1007/s11244-021-01543-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Autonomous computations that rely on automated reaction network elucidation algorithms may pave the way to make computational catalysis on a par with experimental research in the field. Several advantages of this approach are key to catalysis: (i) automation allows one to consider orders of magnitude more structures in a systematic and open-ended fashion than what would be accessible by manual inspection. Eventually, full resolution in terms of structural varieties and conformations as well as with respect to the type and number of potentially important elementary reaction steps (including decomposition reactions that determine turnover numbers) may be achieved. (ii) Fast electronic structure methods with uncertainty quantification warrant high efficiency and reliability in order to not only deliver results quickly, but also to allow for predictive work. (iii) A high degree of autonomy reduces the amount of manual human work, processing errors, and human bias. Although being inherently unbiased, it is still steerable with respect to specific regions of an emerging network and with respect to the addition of new reactant species. This allows for a high fidelity of the formalization of some catalytic process and for surprising in silico discoveries. In this work, we first review the state of the art in computational catalysis to embed autonomous explorations into the general field from which it draws its ingredients. We then elaborate on the specific conceptual issues that arise in the context of autonomous computational procedures, some of which we discuss at an example catalytic system.
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- Miguel Steiner
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Bím D, Navrátil M, Gutten O, Konvalinka J, Kutil Z, Culka M, Navrátil V, Alexandrova AN, Bařinka C, Rulíšek L. Predicting Effects of Site-Directed Mutagenesis on Enzyme Kinetics by QM/MM and QM Calculations: A Case of Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:132-143. [PMID: 34978450 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c09240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Quantum and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) and QM-only (cluster model) modeling techniques represent the two workhorses in mechanistic understanding of enzyme catalysis. One of the stringent tests for QM/MM and/or QM approaches is to provide quantitative answers to real-world biochemical questions, such as the effect of single-point mutations on enzyme kinetics. This translates into predicting the relative activation energies to 1-2 kcal·mol-1 accuracy; such predictions can be used for the rational design of novel enzyme variants with desired/improved characteristics. Herein, we employ glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII), a dizinc metallopeptidase, also known as the prostate specific membrane antigen, as a model system. The structure and activity of this major cancer antigen have been thoroughly studied, both experimentally and computationally, which makes it an ideal model system for method development. Its reaction mechanism is quite well understood: the reaction coordinate comprises a "tetrahedral intermediate" and two transition states and experimental activation Gibbs free energy of ∼17.5 kcal·mol-1 can be inferred for the known kcat ≈ 1 s-1. We correlate experimental kinetic data (including the E424H variant, newly characterized in this work) for various GCPII mutants (kcat = 8.6 × 10-5 s-1 to 2.7 s-1) with the energy profiles calculated by QM/MM and QM-only (cluster model) approaches. We show that the near-quantitative agreement between the experimental values and the calculated activation energies (ΔH⧧) can be obtained and recommend the combination of the two protocols: QM/MM optimized structures and cluster model (QM) energetics. The trend in relative activation energies is mostly independent of the QM method (DFT functional) used. Last but not least, a satisfactory correlation between experimental and theoretical data allows us to provide qualitative and fairly simple explanations of the observed kinetic effects which are thus based on a rigorous footing.
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- Daniel Bím
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic.,Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Hlavova 2030, 2120 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průmyslová 595, 252 50 Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průmyslová 595, 252 50 Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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Sameera W, Takeda Y, Ohki Y. Transition metal catalyzed cross-coupling and nitrogen reduction reactions: Lessons from computational studies. ADVANCES IN ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.adomc.2022.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Piccini G, Lee MS, Yuk SF, Zhang D, Collinge G, Kollias L, Nguyen MT, Glezakou VA, Rousseau R. Ab initio molecular dynamics with enhanced sampling in heterogeneous catalysis. Catal Sci Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d1cy01329g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Enhanced sampling ab initio simulations enable to study chemical phenomena in catalytic systems including thermal effects & anharmonicity, & collective dynamics describing enthalpic & entropic contributions, which can significantly impact on reaction free energy landscapes.
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- GiovanniMaria Piccini
- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
- Istituto Eulero, Università della Svizzera italiana, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
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Okada H, Maeda S. A Dataset of Computational Reaction Barriers for the Claisen Rearrangement: Chemical and Numerical Analysis. Mol Inform 2021; 41:e2100216. [PMID: 34661976 DOI: 10.1002/minf.202100216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Abstract
Theoretical reaction screening based on Gibbs energy barriers would be promising to accelerate chemical reactions mining. The number of quantum chemical calculations can be reduced by using an optimization algorithm such as genetic algorithm (GA) and Bayesian optimization (BO). The focus of this study is to generate a dataset of reaction barriers of size ∼100000. Such a dataset would be useful to quickly evaluate various implementations of an optimization algorithm such as GA and BO. The dataset includes Gibbs energy barriers of the Claisen rearrangement for ∼100000 molecules computed on the basis of a semiempirical theory PM7. After evaluating its chemical and numerical features, it is found that the dataset well reflects chemical trends of various substitutions and is useful in testing various implementations of an optimization algorithm. The dataset is available in the supplementary material of this paper.
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- Hiroaki Okada
- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan.,Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan.,ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan.,Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Turek AK, Sak MH, Miller SJ. Kinetic Analysis of a Cysteine-Derived Thiyl-Catalyzed Asymmetric Vinylcyclopropane Cycloaddition Reflects Numerous Attractive Noncovalent Interactions. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:16173-16183. [PMID: 34553915 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Kinetic studies of a vinylcyclopropane (VCP) cycloaddition, catalyzed by peptide-based thiyl radicals, are described. Reactions were analyzed by using reaction progress kinetic analysis, revealing that ring-opening of the VCP is both rate- and enantio-determining. These conclusions are further corroborated by studies involving racemic and enantiopure VCP starting material. Noncovalent interactions play key roles throughout: both the peptide catalyst and VCP exhibit unproductive self-aggregation, which appears to be disrupted by binding between the catalyst and VCP. This in turn explains the requirement for the key catalyst feature, a substituent at the 4-position of the proline residue, which is required for both turnover/rate and selectivity.
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- Amanda K Turek
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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Computational methods have emerged as a powerful tool to augment traditional experimental molecular catalyst design by providing useful predictions of catalyst performance and decreasing the time needed for catalyst screening. In this perspective, we discuss three approaches for computational molecular catalyst design: (i) the reaction mechanism-based approach that calculates all relevant elementary steps, finds the rate and selectivity determining steps, and ultimately makes predictions on catalyst performance based on kinetic analysis, (ii) the descriptor-based approach where physical/chemical considerations are used to find molecular properties as predictors of catalyst performance, and (iii) the data-driven approach where statistical analysis as well as machine learning (ML) methods are used to obtain relationships between available data/features and catalyst performance. Following an introduction to these approaches, we cover their strengths and weaknesses and highlight some recent key applications. Furthermore, we present an outlook on how the currently applied approaches may evolve in the near future by addressing how recent developments in building automated computational workflows and implementing advanced ML models hold promise for reducing human workload, eliminating human bias, and speeding up computational catalyst design at the same time. Finally, we provide our viewpoint on how some of the challenges associated with the up-and-coming approaches driven by automation and ML may be resolved.
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- Ademola Soyemi
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA.
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Maeda S, Harabuchi Y. Exploring paths of chemical transformations in molecular and periodic systems: An approach utilizing force. WIRES COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Satoshi Maeda
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI‐ICReDD), Hokkaido University Sapporo Hokkaido Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Hokkaido University Sapporo Hokkaido Japan
- JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project Sapporo Hokkaido Japan
- National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS) Tsukuba Ibaraki Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI‐ICReDD), Hokkaido University Sapporo Hokkaido Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Hokkaido University Sapporo Hokkaido Japan
- JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project Sapporo Hokkaido Japan
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Klein J, Fleurat-Lessard P, Pilmé J. New insights in chemical reactivity from quantum chemical topology. J Comput Chem 2021; 42:840-854. [PMID: 33660292 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2020] [Revised: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Based on the quantum chemical topology of the modified electron localization function ELFx , an efficient and robust mechanistic methodology designed to identify the favorable reaction pathway between two reactants is proposed. We first recall and reshape how the supermolecular interaction energy can be evaluated from only three distinct terms, namely the intermolecular coulomb energy, the intermolecular exchange-correlation energy and the intramolecular energies of reactants. Thereafter, we show that the reactivity between the reactants is driven by the first-order variation in the coulomb intermolecular energy defined in terms of the response to changes in the number of electrons. Illustrative examples with the formation of the dative bond B-N involved in the BH3 NH3 molecule and the typical formation of the hydrogen bond in the canonical water dimer are presented. For these selected systems, our approach unveils a noticeable mimicking of Edual onto the DFT intermolecular interaction energy surface calculated between the both reactants. An automated reaction-path algorithm aimed to determine the most favorable relative orientations when the two molecules approach each other is also outlined.
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- Johanna Klein
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Paris Cedex, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, UMR CNRS 6302, Université, Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC), Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne (ICMUB), 9 avenue Alain Savary, Dijon Cedex, 21078, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Paris Cedex, France
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Diamanti A, Ganase Z, Grant E, Armstrong A, Piccione PM, Rea AM, Richardson J, Galindo A, Adjiman CS. Mechanism, kinetics and selectivity of a Williamson ether synthesis: elucidation under different reaction conditions. REACT CHEM ENG 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0re00437e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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New mechanistic understanding and the quantification of reaction kinetics shed light on the large impact of the solvent on selectivity.
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- Aikaterini Diamanti
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Centre for Process Systems Engineering and Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
- Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus
- London SW7 2AZ
- UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Centre for Process Systems Engineering and Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
- Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus
- London SW7 2AZ
- UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Centre for Process Systems Engineering and Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
- Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus
- London SW7 2AZ
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
- Imperial College London
- London W12 0BZ
- UK
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- Process Studies Group
- Process Technology AI
- Syngenta
- Jealott's Hill International Research Center
- Bracknell
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- Process Studies Group
- Process Technology AI
- Syngenta
- Jealott's Hill International Research Center
- Bracknell
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Centre for Process Systems Engineering and Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
- Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus
- London SW7 2AZ
- UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Centre for Process Systems Engineering and Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
- Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus
- London SW7 2AZ
- UK
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Nandy A, Kulik HJ. Why Conventional Design Rules for C–H Activation Fail for Open-Shell Transition-Metal Catalysts. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Aditya Nandy
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Computational mechanistic study on molecular catalysis of water oxidation by cyclam ligand-based iron complex. Theor Chem Acc 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-020-02664-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Gütlein P, Blumberger J, Oberhofer H. An Iterative Fragment Scheme for the ACKS2 Electronic Polarization Model: Application to Molecular Dimers and Chains. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:5723-5735. [PMID: 32701273 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The treatment of electrostatic interactions is a key ingredient in the force field-based simulation of condensed phase systems. Most approaches used fixed, site-specific point charges. Yet, it is now clear that many applications of force fields (FFs) demand more sophisticated treatments, prompting the implementation of charge equilibration methods in polarizable FFs to allow the redistribution of charge within the system. One approach allowing both, charge redistribution and site-specific polarization, while at the same time solving methodological shortcomings of earlier methods, is the first-principles-derived atom-condensed Kohn-Sham density functional theory method approximated to the second order (ACKS2). In this work, we present two fragment approaches to ACKS2, termed f-ACKS2 and a self-consistent version, scf-ACKS2, that treat condensed phase systems as a collection of electronically polarizable molecular fragments. The fragmentation approach to ACKS2 not only leads to a more transferable and less system-specific collection of electronic response parameters but also opens up the method to large condensed phase systems. We validate the accuracies of f-ACKS2 and scf-ACKS2 by comparing polarization energies and induced dipole moments for a number of charged hydrocarbon dimers against DFT reference calculations. Finally, we also apply both fragmented ACKS2 variants to calculate the polarization energy for electron-hole pair separation along a chain of anthracene molecules and find excellent agreement with reference DFT calculations.
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- Patrick Gütlein
- Chair for Theoretical Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.,Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 2 a, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Chair for Theoretical Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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Funes-Ardoiz I, Schoenebeck F. Established and Emerging Computational Tools to Study Homogeneous Catalysis—From Quantum Mechanics to Machine Learning. Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Collinge G, Yuk SF, Nguyen MT, Lee MS, Glezakou VA, Rousseau R. Effect of Collective Dynamics and Anharmonicity on Entropy in Heterogenous Catalysis: Building the Case for Advanced Molecular Simulations. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Greg Collinge
- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Basic & Applied Molecular Foundations, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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DFT Study on Mechanisms of the N2O Direct Catalytic Decomposition over Cu-ZSM-5: The Detailed Investigation on NO Formation Mechanism. Catalysts 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/catal10060646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an industrial emission that causes the greenhouse effect and damages the ozone layer. Density functional theory study on the N2O direct catalytic decomposition over Cu–ZSM-5 has been performed in this paper. Two possible reaction mechanisms for N2O direct catalytic decomposition over Cu-ZSM-5 were proposed (O2 formation mechanism and Nitric oxide (NO) formation mechanism). The geometrical parameters, vibration frequency and thermodynamic data of the intermediate states in each step have been examined. The results indicate that N2O can be adsorbed on active site Cu in two ways (O-terminal or N-terminal), and N2O decomposition reactions can occur in both cases. The NO formation mechanism exhibits higher N2O dissociation reaction due to lower energy barrier.
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Mita T, Harabuchi Y, Maeda S. Discovery of a synthesis method for a difluoroglycine derivative based on a path generated by quantum chemical calculations. Chem Sci 2020; 11:7569-7577. [PMID: 34094133 PMCID: PMC8159455 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc02089c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The systematic exploration of synthetic pathways to afford a desired product through quantum chemical calculations remains a considerable challenge. In 2013, Maeda et al. introduced 'quantum chemistry aided retrosynthetic analysis' (QCaRA), which uses quantum chemical calculations to search systematically for the decomposition paths of a target product and proposes a synthesis method. However, until now, no new reactions suggested by QCaRA have been reported to lead to experimental discoveries. Using a difluoroglycine derivative as a target, this study investigated the ability of QCaRA to suggest various synthetic paths to the target without relying on previous data or the knowledge and experience of chemists. Furthermore, experimental verification of the most promising path chosen by an organic chemist among the predicted paths led to the discovery of a synthesis method for a difluoroglycine derivative. We emphasize that the purpose of this study is not to propose a fully automated workflow. Therefore, the extent of the hands-on expertise of chemists required during the verification process was also evaluated. These insights are expected to advance the applicability of QCaRA to the discovery of viable experimental synthetic routes.
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- Tsuyoshi Mita
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University Kita 21 Nishi 10, Kita-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 001-0021 Japan .,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 060-0810 Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University Kita 21 Nishi 10, Kita-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 001-0021 Japan .,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 060-0810 Japan.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 060-0810 Japan.,JST, PRESTO 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi Saitama 332-0012 Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University Kita 21 Nishi 10, Kita-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 001-0021 Japan .,JST, ERATO Maeda Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery Project Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 060-0810 Japan.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 060-0810 Japan.,Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan
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Hilton M, Brackett CM, Mercado BQ, Blagg BSJ, Miller SJ. Catalysis-Enabled Access to Cryptic Geldanamycin Oxides. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2020; 6:426-435. [PMID: 32232143 PMCID: PMC7099596 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Catalytic, selective modifications of natural products can be a fertile platform for not only unveiling new natural product analogues with altered biological activity, but also for revealing new reactivity and selectivity hierarchies for embedded functional groups in complex environments. Motivated by these intersecting aims, we report site- and stereoselective oxidation reactions of geldanamycin facilitated by aspartyl-peptide catalysts. Through the isolation and characterization of four new geldanamycin oxides, we discovered a synergistic effect between lead peptide-based catalysts and geldanamycin, resulting in an unexpected reaction pathway. Curiously, our discoveries would likely not have been possible absent the attractive noncovalent interactions intrinsic to both the catalysts and the natural product. The result is a set of new "meta" catalytic reactions that deliver both unknown and previously incompletely characterized geldanamycin analogues. Enabled by the catalytic, site-selective epoxidation of geldanamycin, biological assays were carried out to document the bioactivities of the new compounds.
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- Margaret
J. Hilton
- Department
of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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de Aguirre A, Fernandez-Alvarez VM, Maseras F. Computational Modeling of Selected Photoactivated Processes. TOP ORGANOMETAL CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/3418_2020_50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Artificial Force-Induced Reaction Method for Systematic Elucidation of Mechanism and Selectivity in Organometallic Reactions. TOP ORGANOMETAL CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/3418_2020_51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Gaggioli CA, Stoneburner SJ, Cramer CJ, Gagliardi L. Beyond Density Functional Theory: The Multiconfigurational Approach To Model Heterogeneous Catalysis. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b01775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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- Carlo Alberto Gaggioli
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Li A, Nicolae SA, Qiao M, Preuss K, Szilágyi PA, Moores A, Titirici M. Homogenous Meets Heterogenous and Electro‐Catalysis: Iron‐Nitrogen Molecular Complexes within Carbon Materials for Catalytic Applications. ChemCatChem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Alain Li
- Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysis Department of ChemistryMcGill University 801 Sherbrooke St West Montreal H3A 0B8 Canada
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- Queen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering and Materials Science Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
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- Queen Mary University of LondonMaterials Research Institute Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
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- Queen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering and Materials Science Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
- Queen Mary University of LondonMaterials Research Institute Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
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- Queen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering and Materials Science Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
- Queen Mary University of LondonMaterials Research Institute Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
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- Centre for Green Chemistry and Catalysis Department of ChemistryMcGill University 801 Sherbrooke St West Montreal H3A 0B8 Canada
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- Queen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering and Materials Science Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
- Queen Mary University of LondonMaterials Research Institute Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK
- Department of Chemical Engineering Imperial College LondonSouth Kensington Campus London SE7 2AZ UK
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Freeze JG, Kelly HR, Batista VS. Search for Catalysts by Inverse Design: Artificial Intelligence, Mountain Climbers, and Alchemists. Chem Rev 2019; 119:6595-6612. [PMID: 31059236 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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In silico catalyst design is a grand challenge of chemistry. Traditional computational approaches have been limited by the need to compute properties for an intractably large number of possible catalysts. Recently, inverse design methods have emerged, starting from a desired property and optimizing a corresponding chemical structure. Techniques used for exploring chemical space include gradient-based optimization, alchemical transformations, and machine learning. Though the application of these methods to catalysis is in its early stages, further development will allow for robust computational catalyst design. This review provides an overview of the evolution of inverse design approaches and their relevance to catalysis. The strengths and limitations of existing techniques are highlighted, and suggestions for future research are provided.
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- Jessica G Freeze
- Department of Chemistry , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States.,Energy Sciences Institute , Yale University , West Haven , Connecticut 06516 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States.,Energy Sciences Institute , Yale University , West Haven , Connecticut 06516 , United States
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- Energy Sciences Institute , Yale University , West Haven , Connecticut 06516 , United States.,Department of Chemistry , Yale University , P.O. Box 208107 , New Haven , Connecticut 06520 , United States
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Crawford JM, Sigman MS. Conformational Dynamics in Asymmetric Catalysis: Is Catalyst Flexibility a Design Element? SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART 2019; 51:1021-1036. [PMID: 31235980 PMCID: PMC6590688 DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1611636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Traditionally, highly selective low molecular weight catalysts have been designed to contain rigidifying structural elements. As a result, many proposed stereochemical models rely on steric repulsion for explaining the observed selectivity. Recently, as is the case for enzymatic systems, it has become apparent that some flexibility can be beneficial for imparting selectivity. Dynamic catalysts can reorganize to maximize attractive non-covalent interactions that stabilize the favored diastereomeric transition state, while minimizing repulsive non-covalent interactions for enhanced selectivity. This Short Review discusses catalyst conformational dynamics and how these effects have proven beneficial for a variety of catalyst classes, including tropos ligands, cinchona alkaloids, hydrogen-bond donating catalysts, and peptides.
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- Jennifer M. Crawford
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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Cheng GJ, Zhong XM, Wu YD, Zhang X. Mechanistic understanding of catalysis by combining mass spectrometry and computation. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:12749-12764. [PMID: 31560354 DOI: 10.1039/c9cc05458h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The combination of mass spectrometry and computational chemistry has been proven to be powerful for exploring reaction mechanisms. The former provides information of reaction intermediates, while the latter gives detailed reaction energy profiles.
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- Gui-Juan Cheng
- Lab of Computational Chemistry and Drug Design
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics
- Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
- Shenzhen
- China
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- Lab of Computational Chemistry and Drug Design
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics
- Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
- Shenzhen
- China
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- Lab of Computational Chemistry and Drug Design
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics
- Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
- Shenzhen
- China
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- Lab of Computational Chemistry and Drug Design
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics
- Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
- Shenzhen
- China
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Yan XC, Metrano AJ, Robertson MJ, Abascal NC, Tirado-Rives J, Miller SJ, Jorgensen WL. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Conformationally Mobile Peptide-Based Catalyst for Atroposelective Bromination. ACS Catal 2018; 8:9968-9979. [PMID: 30687577 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b03563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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It is widely accepted that structural rigidity is required to achieve high levels of asymmetric induction in catalytic, enantioselective reactions. This fundamental design principle often does not apply to highly selective catalytic peptides that often exhibit conformational heterogeneity. As a result, these complex systems are particularly challenging to study both experimentally and computationally. Herein, we utilize molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the role of conformational mobility on the reactivity and selectivity exhibited by a catalytic, β-turn-biased peptide in an atroposelective bromination reaction. By means of cluster analysis, multiple distinct conformers of the peptide and a catalyst-substrate complex were identified in the simulations, all of which were corroborated by experimental NMR measurements. The simulations also revealed that a shift in the conformational equilibrium of the peptidic catalyst occurs upon addition of substrate, and the degree of change varies among different substrates. On the basis of these data, we propose a correlation between the composition of the peptide conformational ensemble and its catalytic properties. Moreover, these findings highlight the importance of conformational dynamics in catalytic, asymmetric reactions mediated by oligopeptides, unveiled through high-level, state-of-the-art computational modeling.
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- Xin Cindy Yan
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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König G, Pickard FC, Huang J, Thiel W, MacKerell AD, Brooks BR, York DM. A Comparison of QM/MM Simulations with and without the Drude Oscillator Model Based on Hydration Free Energies of Simple Solutes. Molecules 2018; 23:E2695. [PMID: 30347691 PMCID: PMC6222909 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23102695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2018] [Revised: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Maintaining a proper balance between specific intermolecular interactions and non-specific solvent interactions is of critical importance in molecular simulations, especially when predicting binding affinities or reaction rates in the condensed phase. The most rigorous metric for characterizing solvent affinity are solvation free energies, which correspond to a transfer from the gas phase into solution. Due to the drastic change of the electrostatic environment during this process, it is also a stringent test of polarization response in the model. Here, we employ both the CHARMM fixed charge and polarizable force fields to predict hydration free energies of twelve simple solutes. The resulting classical ensembles are then reweighted to obtain QM/MM hydration free energies using a variety of QM methods, including MP2, Hartree⁻Fock, density functional methods (BLYP, B3LYP, M06-2X) and semi-empirical methods (OM2 and AM1 ). Our simulations test the compatibility of quantum-mechanical methods with molecular-mechanical water models and solute Lennard⁻Jones parameters. In all cases, the resulting QM/MM hydration free energies were inferior to purely classical results, with the QM/MM Drude force field predictions being only marginally better than the QM/MM fixed charge results. In addition, the QM/MM results for different quantum methods are highly divergent, with almost inverted trends for polarizable and fixed charge water models. While this does not necessarily imply deficiencies in the QM models themselves, it underscores the need to develop consistent and balanced QM/MM interactions. Both the QM and the MM component of a QM/MM simulation have to match, in order to avoid artifacts due to biased solute⁻solvent interactions. Finally, we discuss strategies to improve the convergence and efficiency of multi-scale free energy simulations by automatically adapting the molecular-mechanics force field to the target quantum method.
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- Gerhard König
- Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
- Laboratory for Biomolecular Simulation Research, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
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- Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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- Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
- School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Street, Hangzhou 310024, China.
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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- Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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- Laboratory for Biomolecular Simulation Research, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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Torrent-Sucarrat M, Arrastia I, Arrieta A, Cossío FP. Stereoselectivity, Different Oxidation States, and Multiple Spin States in the Cyclopropanation of Olefins Catalyzed by Fe–Porphyrin Complexes. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Miquel Torrent-Sucarrat
- Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO−CINQA), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 3, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 4, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Alameda Urquijo, 36-5 Plaza Bizkaia, 48011 Bilbao, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO−CINQA), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 3, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 4, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO−CINQA), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 3, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry I, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO−CINQA), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 3, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea 4, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain
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Powering catalysis with supercomputers. Nat Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1038/s41929-018-0135-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Rigling C, Kisunzu JK, Duschmalé J, Häussinger D, Wiesner M, Ebert MO, Wennemers H. Conformational Properties of a Peptidic Catalyst: Insights from NMR Spectroscopic Studies. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:10829-10838. [PMID: 30106584 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b05459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Peptides have become valuable as catalysts for a variety of different reactions, but little is known about the conformational properties of peptidic catalysts. We investigated the conformation of the peptide H-dPro-Pro-Glu-NH2, a highly reactive and stereoselective catalyst for conjugate addition reactions, and the corresponding enamine intermediate in solution by NMR spectroscopy and computational methods. The combination of nuclear Overhauser effects (NOEs), residual dipolar couplings (RDCs), J-couplings, and temperature coefficients revealed that the tripeptide adopts a single predominant conformation in its ground state. The structure is a type I β-turn, which gains stabilization from three hydrogen bonds that are cooperatively formed between all functional groups (secondary amine, carboxylic acid, amides) within the tripeptide. In contrast, the conformation of the enamine intermediate is significantly more flexible. The conformational ensemble of the enamine is still dominated by the β-turn, but the backbone and the side chain of the glutamic acid residue are more dynamic. The key to the switch between rigidity and flexibility of the peptidic catalyst is the CO2H group in the side chain of the glutamic acid residue, which acts as a lid that can open and close. As a result, the peptidic catalyst is able to adapt to the structural requirements of the intermediates and transition states of the catalytic cycle. These insights might explain the robustness and high reactivity of the peptidic catalyst, which exceeds that of other secondary amine-based organocatalysts. The data suggest that a balance between rigidity and flexibility, which is reminiscent of the dynamic nature of enzymes, is beneficial for peptidic catalysts and other synthetic catalysts.
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- Carla Rigling
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie , ETH Zürich , D-CHAB, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie , ETH Zürich , D-CHAB, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie , ETH Zürich , D-CHAB, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland.,Department of Chemistry , University of Basel , St. Johanns-Ring 19 , 4056 Basel , Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Basel , St. Johanns-Ring 19 , 4056 Basel , Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Basel , St. Johanns-Ring 19 , 4056 Basel , Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie , ETH Zürich , D-CHAB, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie , ETH Zürich , D-CHAB, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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Besora M, Maseras F. Microkinetic modeling in homogeneous catalysis. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Maria Besora
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)Barcelona Institute of Science and TechnologyBarcelonaSpain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)Barcelona Institute of Science and TechnologyBarcelonaSpain
- Departament de QuímicaUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)BarcelonaSpain
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Zhang J, Motta A, Gao Y, Stalzer MM, Delferro M, Liu B, Lohr TL, Marks TJ. Cationic Pyridylamido Adsorbate on Brønsted Acidic Sulfated Zirconia: A Molecular Supported Organohafnium Catalyst for Olefin Homo- and Co-Polymerization. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Jialong Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, People’s Republic of China
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and INSTM, UdR Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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