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Zhang J, He X, Wang B, Rong C, Zhao D, Liu S. Density-based quantification of steric effects: validation by Taft steric parameters from acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of esters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:23447-23456. [PMID: 39221570 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp02702g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
Abstract
The steric effect is one of the most widely used concepts for chemical understanding in publications and textbooks, yet a well-accepted formulation of this effect is still elusive. Experimentally, this concept was quantified by the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of esters, yielding the so-called Taft steric parameter. Theoretically, we recently proposed a density-based scheme to quantify the effect from density functional theory. In this work, we directly compare these two schemes, one from theory and the other from experiment. To this end, we first establish the ester hydrolysis mechanism with multiple water molecules explicitly considered and then apply the energetic span model to represent the hydrolysis barrier height between the two schemes. Our results show that the barrier height of the reaction series is strongly correlated with both Taft steric parameters from experiment and steric quantification from theory. We also obtained strong correlations with steric potential, steric force, and steric charge from our theoretical scheme. Strong correlations with a few information-theoretic quantities are additionally unveiled. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time in the literature that such a direct comparison between theoretical and experimental results is made. These results also suggest that our proposed two-water three-step mechanism for ester hydrolysis is effective, and our theoretical quantification of the steric effect is valid, robust, and experimentally comparable. In our view, this work should have satisfactorily addressed the issue of how the steric effect can be formulated and quantified, and thus it lays the groundwork for future applications.
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- Jingwen Zhang
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China.
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- Institute of Frontier Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- Research Group of General Chemistry (ALGC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China.
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- Institute of Biomedical Research, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3420, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3290, USA
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Liu S. Harvesting Chemical Understanding with Machine Learning and Quantum Computers. ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU 2024; 4:135-142. [PMID: 38560751 PMCID: PMC10979482 DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.3c00067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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It is tenable to argue that nobody can predict the future with certainty, yet one can learn from the past and make informed projections for the years ahead. In this Perspective, we overview the status of how theory and computation can be exploited to obtain chemical understanding from wave function theory and density functional theory, and then outlook the likely impact of machine learning (ML) and quantum computers (QC) to appreciate traditional chemical concepts in decades to come. It is maintained that the development and maturation of ML and QC methods in theoretical and computational chemistry represent two paradigm shifts about how the Schrödinger equation can be solved. New chemical understanding can be harnessed in these two new paradigms by making respective use of ML features and QC qubits. Before that happens, however, we still have hurdles to face and obstacles to overcome in both ML and QC arenas. Possible pathways to tackle these challenges are proposed. We anticipate that hierarchical modeling, in contrast to multiscale modeling, will emerge and thrive, becoming the workhorse of in silico simulations in the next few decades.
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He X, Lu T, Rong C, Liu S, Ayers PW, Liu W. Topological analysis of information-theoretic quantities in density functional theory. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:054112. [PMID: 37548307 DOI: 10.1063/5.0159941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023] Open
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We have witnessed considerable research interest in the recent literature about the development and applications of quantities from the information-theoretic approach (ITA) in density functional theory. These ITA quantities are explicit density functionals, whose local distributions in real space are continuous and well-behaved. In this work, we further develop ITA by systematically analyzing the topological behavior of its four representative quantities, Shannon entropy, two forms of Fisher information, and relative Shannon entropy (also called information gain or Kullback-Leibler divergence). Our results from their topological analyses for 103 molecular systems provide new insights into bonding interactions and physiochemical properties, such as electrophilicity, nucleophilicity, acidity, and aromaticity. We also compare our results with those from the electron density, electron localization function, localized orbital locator, and Laplacian functions. Our results offer a new methodological approach and practical tool for applications that are especially promising for elucidating chemical bonding and reactivity propensity.
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- Xin He
- Qingdao Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences, Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing 100022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1, Canada
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- Qingdao Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences, Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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Vázquez-Hernández H, Esquivel RO. Phenomenological description of the acidity of the citric acid and its deprotonated species: informational-theoretical study. J Mol Model 2023; 29:253. [PMID: 37464113 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-023-05589-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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CONTEXT In spite of the fact that molecular acidity is a fundamental physicochemical property of molecular systems, the vast majority of theoretical studies have focused attention on monoprotic acids and on the prediction of pKa's. Polyprotic acids, represent a challenge for electronic structure calculations since the multiple acidic sites result in a vast group of species with different conformations and reactivities. In this work, Information-theoretic (IT) concepts of localizability, order and uniformity are applied to the Citric Acid and its deprotonated species through the one-electron density functionals: Shannon entropy (S), Fisher information (I) and Disequilibrium (D), respectively. We pursue the goal of characterizing the acidity of the aforementioned species with the aim to associate the IT concepts to chemical features such as the polarizability of the protonated/deprotonated species, the liability of the acidic sites, atomic electrostatic potentials, covalent bonding. IT analyses looks very promising for future studies on the acidity of specific deprotonation-sites of polyprotic acids. METHODS Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed with Gaussian 09 program. A sensitivity analysis of the IT-measures was performed for the citric acid and the citrate using B3LYP, B3PW91, BPW91, M05-2X, M06-2X and PBEPBE functionals with the 6-311++g(3df,2p), 6-311++g(d,p), 6.311+g(d,p) and aug-cc-pVDZ basis sets. The rest of the analysis was performed with the M05-2X/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory. Additionally, aqueous media was considered by use of the SMD solvent model. The IT-measures were calculated using a suite of programs developed in our laboratory jointly with the DGRID software package.
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- Hazel Vázquez-Hernández
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Av. Ferrocarril San Rafael Atlixco 186, Colonia Leyes de Reforma, 09310, Mexico City, México
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Av. Ferrocarril San Rafael Atlixco 186, Colonia Leyes de Reforma, 09310, Mexico City, México.
- Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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An X, Zhang W, Rong C, Liu S. Understanding
Ramachandran
plot for dipeptide: A density functional theory and i
nformation‐theoretic
approach study. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202200444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Xiaoyan An
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, (Ministry of Education of China) Hunan Normal University Changsha Hunan People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, (Ministry of Education of China) Hunan Normal University Changsha Hunan People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, (Ministry of Education of China) Hunan Normal University Changsha Hunan People's Republic of China
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- Research Computing Center University of North Carolina Chapel Hill North Carolina USA
- Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina Chapel Hill North Carolina USA
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Teale AM, Helgaker T, Savin A, Adamo C, Aradi B, Arbuznikov AV, Ayers PW, Baerends EJ, Barone V, Calaminici P, Cancès E, Carter EA, Chattaraj PK, Chermette H, Ciofini I, Crawford TD, De Proft F, Dobson JF, Draxl C, Frauenheim T, Fromager E, Fuentealba P, Gagliardi L, Galli G, Gao J, Geerlings P, Gidopoulos N, Gill PMW, Gori-Giorgi P, Görling A, Gould T, Grimme S, Gritsenko O, Jensen HJA, Johnson ER, Jones RO, Kaupp M, Köster AM, Kronik L, Krylov AI, Kvaal S, Laestadius A, Levy M, Lewin M, Liu S, Loos PF, Maitra NT, Neese F, Perdew JP, Pernal K, Pernot P, Piecuch P, Rebolini E, Reining L, Romaniello P, Ruzsinszky A, Salahub DR, Scheffler M, Schwerdtfeger P, Staroverov VN, Sun J, Tellgren E, Tozer DJ, Trickey SB, Ullrich CA, Vela A, Vignale G, Wesolowski TA, Xu X, Yang W. DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:28700-28781. [PMID: 36269074 PMCID: PMC9728646 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02827a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In this paper, the history, present status, and future of density-functional theory (DFT) is informally reviewed and discussed by 70 workers in the field, including molecular scientists, materials scientists, method developers and practitioners. The format of the paper is that of a roundtable discussion, in which the participants express and exchange views on DFT in the form of 302 individual contributions, formulated as responses to a preset list of 26 questions. Supported by a bibliography of 777 entries, the paper represents a broad snapshot of DFT, anno 2022.
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- Andrew M. Teale
- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University ParkNottinghamNG7 2RDUK
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- Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway.
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, CNRS and Sorbonne University, 4 Place Jussieu, CEDEX 05, 75252 Paris, France.
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- PSL University, CNRS, ChimieParisTech-PSL, Institute of Chemistry for Health and Life Sciences, i-CLeHS, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, P.O. Box 330440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany.
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Theoretische Chemie/Quantenchemie, Sekr. C7Straße des 17. Juni 13510623Berlin
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56125 Pisa, Italy.
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav), CDMX, 07360, Mexico.
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- CERMICS, Ecole des Ponts and Inria Paris, 6 Avenue Blaise Pascal, 77455 Marne-la-Vallée, France.
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton UniversityPrincetonNJ 08544-5263USA
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- Institut Sciences Analytiques, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, CNRS UMR 5280, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
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- PSL University, CNRS, ChimieParisTech-PSL, Institute of Chemistry for Health and Life Sciences, i-CLeHS, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia TechBlacksburgVA 24061USA,Molecular Sciences Software InstituteBlacksburgVA 24060USA
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- Research Group of General Chemistry (ALGC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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- Institut für Physik and IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany. .,Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, P.O. Box 330440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany. .,Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CSRC), 100193 Beijing, China.,Shenzhen JL Computational Science and Applied Research Institute, 518110 Shenzhen, China
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique, Institut de Chimie, CNRS/Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile.
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- Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The James Franck Institute, and Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Institute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China. .,Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Research Group of General Chemistry (ALGC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
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- School of Chemistry, University of SydneyCamperdown NSW 2006Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
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- Qld Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld 4222, Australia.
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Beringstrasse 4, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
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- Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie UniversityHalifaxNova ScotiaB3H 4R2Canada
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- Peter Grünberg Institut PGI-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich52425 JülichGermany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Theoretische Chemie/Quantenchemie, Sekr. C7, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin.
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav)CDMX07360Mexico
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- Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, 76100, Israel.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern CaliforniaLos AngelesCalifornia 90089USA
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- Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway.
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- Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118, USA.
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- CNRS & CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University, Place de Lattre de Tassigny, 75016 Paris, France.
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3420, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques (UMR 5626), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, France.
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- Department of Physics, Rutgers University at Newark101 Warren StreetNewarkNJ 07102USA
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- Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser Wilhelm Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
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- Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Temple UniversityPhiladelphiaPA 19122USA
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- Institute of Physics, Lodz University of Technology, ul. Wolczanska 219, 90-924 Lodz, Poland.
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- Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR8000, CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay, Bât. 349, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay, France.
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. .,Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Institut Laue Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France.
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- Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés, CNRS, CEA/DRF/IRAMIS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, F-91120 Palaiseau, France. .,European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (UMR 5152), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, France.
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- Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics and Astronomy, CMS – Centre for Molecular Simulation, IQST – Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Quantum Alberta, University of Calgary2500 University Drive NWCalgaryAlbertaT2N 1N4Canada
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- The NOMAD Laboratory at the FHI of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and IRIS-Adlershof of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195, Germany.
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- Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, The New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University Auckland, 0632 Auckland, New Zealand.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Western OntarioLondonOntario N6A 5B7Canada
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- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.
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- Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham UniversitySouth RoadDurhamDH1 3LEUK
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- Quantum Theory Project, Deptartment of Physics, University of FloridaGainesvilleFL 32611USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of MissouriColumbiaMO 65211USA
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav), CDMX, 07360, Mexico.
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- Department of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203, USA.
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Université de Genève30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet1211 GenèveSwitzerland
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovation Materials, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, MOE Laboratory for Computational Physical Science, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27516, USA.
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Wang K, He X, Rong C, Zhong A, Liu S, Zhao D. On the origin and nature of internal methyl rotation barriers: an information-theoretic approach study. Theor Chem Acc 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-022-02910-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Pal R, Poddar A, Chattaraj PK. On the Periodicity of the Information Theory and Conceptual DFT-Based Reactivity Descriptors. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6801-6813. [PMID: 36154006 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The periodic trends in conceptual density functional and information theory-based reactivity descriptors are reported for the atoms H to Ba (Z = 1 to 56). Ionization potential, electron affinity, electronegativity, and hardness show periodic behavior following the Aufbau principle and popular electronic structure principles. They are in agreement with those reported in standard chemistry textbooks. The trend in the electrophilicity index, however, shows an interesting behavior, where it contradicts earlier reports. Our calculation reveals that the noble gas elements correspond to minimum ω values in each period which obey the minimum electrophilicity principle as well as reflect their low reactivity. Periodic trends in electroaccepting and electrodonating powers, along with that of net electrophilicity, are as expected. The behavior of information theory-based Shannon and GBP entropies, along with the Shannon entropy of shape function are also explored across the periodic table.
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- Ranita Pal
- Advanced Technology Development Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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Liu S. Quantifying energetic information in density functional theory. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:101103. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0104919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Energy and information are two fundamental concepts in physics and chemistry. In density functional theory (DFT), all information pertaining to stability, reactivity, and other properties is encompassed in the ground state electron density. The basic theorems of DFT govern that energy is a universal functional of the density and thus it can be regarded as a special kind of information. In this work, we quantify the energetic information in terms of Shannon entropy and Fisher information for energetic distributions of atoms and molecules. Two identities are unveiled for an energetic density, its gradient and Laplacian to rigorously satisfy. A new partition scheme to decompose atoms in molecules has been proposed using the energetic distribution. We also show that our approach can simultaneously quantify both two-body and many-body interactions. This new framework should provide new analytical tools for us to appreciate electronic properties of molecular systems including stability and reactivity. More importantly, this work establishes the missing link in DFT between energy and information, the two most fundamental quantities in quantum theory.
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- Shubin Liu
- Research Computing Ceter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America
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The Crystal Structure of 2-Amino-4-(2,3-Dichlorophenyl)-6-Methoxy-4H-Benzo[h]chromene-3-Carbonitrile: Antitumor and Tyrosine Kinase Receptor Inhibition Mechanism Studies. CRYSTALS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst12050737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The target compound, 2-amino-4-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-6-methoxy-4H-benzo[h]chromene -3-carbonitrile (4), was synthesized via the reaction of 4-methoxynaphthalen-1-ol (1), 2,3-dichlorobenzaldehyde (2), and malononitrile (3) in an ethanolic piperidine solution under microwave irradiation. The synthesized β-enaminonitrile derivative (4) was characterized by spectral data and X-ray diffraction. The in vitro anti-proliferative profile was conducted against five cancer cell lines and was assessed for compound 4, which revealed strong and selective cytotoxic potency. This derivative showed promising inhibition efficacy against the EGFR and VEGFR-2 kinases in comparison to Sorafenib as a reference inhibitor. Lastly, the docking analysis into the EGFR and VEGFR-2 active sites was performed to clarify our biological findings.
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The Synergetic and Multifaceted Nature of Carbon‐Carbon Rotation Reveals the Origin of Conformational Barrier Heights with Bulky Alkane Groups. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.4352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Ding Y, Sun C, Guo X, Mu J. Insight into generalized local softness based on
ABEEM
‐σπ method: Electrophilic additions to alkenes. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202100392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Yan‐Li Ding
- College of Science Shenyang University of Chemical Technology Shenyang People's Republic of China
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- Center of Physical Chemistry Test Shenyang University of Chemical Technology Shenyang People's Republic of China
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- College of Science Shenyang University of Chemical Technology Shenyang People's Republic of China
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- College of Science Shenyang University of Chemical Technology Shenyang People's Republic of China
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Zhao D, He X, Li M, Wang B, Guo C, Rong C, Chattaraj PK, Liu S. Density functional theory studies of boron clusters with exotic properties in bonding, aromaticity and reactivity. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:24118-24124. [PMID: 34730137 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02516c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Atomic clusters are unique in many perspectives because of their size and structure features and are continuously being applied for different purposes. To unveil their unconventional properties, in this work, using neutral tetraboron clusters as illustrative examples, we study their exotic behaviors in bonding, aromaticity, and reactivity. We show that both double and triple bonds can be formed, ring current patterns can be totally different, and both electrophilic and nucleophilic reactivities can coexist simultaneously. These features are often in contrast with our conventional chemical wisdom and could enrich the possibility for their potential applications. The methodologies employed in this work can be readily applied to other systems. Our studies should help us better appreciate atomic clusters with many atypical properties and henceforth yield novel applications.
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- Dongbo Zhao
- Institute of Biomedical Research, Yunnan University, Chenggong District, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India.
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599-3290, USA
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He X, Li M, Yu D, Wang B, Zhao D, Rong C, Liu S. Conformational changes for porphyrinoid derivatives: an information-theoretic approach study. Theor Chem Acc 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-021-02824-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Wang B, Zhao D, Lu T, Liu S, Rong C. Quantifications and Applications of Relative Fisher Information in Density Functional Theory. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:3802-3811. [PMID: 33891419 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c02099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Though density functional theory is widely accepted as one of the most successful developments in theoretical chemistry in the past few decades, the knowledge of how to apply this new electronic structure theory, to help us better understand chemical processes and transformations, is still an unaccomplished task. The information-theoretic approach is emerging as a viable option for that purpose in the recent literature, providing new insights about steric effect, cooperativity, electrophilicity, nucleophilicity, stereoselectivity, homochirality, etc. In this work, based on the result from a recent paper by one of us [ J. Chem. Phys, 2019, 151, 141103], we present two quantifications of the relative Fisher information and discuss their physiochemical properties and possible applications. To that end, their analytical properties have been elucidated. They have also been applied to six categories of systems to illustrate their applicability. A better descriptor to quantify the single bond rotation barrier has been obtained. The relative Fisher information can also simultaneously determine electrophilicity and nucleophilicity, and effectively describe helical structures with different homochiral and heterochiral propensities. As integral parts of the information-theoretic approach, these newly introduced quantities will provide us with more analytical tools toward the long-term goal of crafting a chemical reactivity theory in the density-based language.
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- Bin Wang
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P.R. China
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- Institute of Biomedical Research, Yunnan University, Chenggong District, Kunming 650500, Yunnan P.R. China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing 100022, P.R. China
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P.R. China
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Chakraborty D, Chattaraj PK. Conceptual density functional theory based electronic structure principles. Chem Sci 2021; 12:6264-6279. [PMID: 34084424 PMCID: PMC8115084 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc07017c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In this review article, we intend to highlight the basic electronic structure principles and various reactivity descriptors as defined within the premise of conceptual density functional theory (CDFT). Over the past several decades, CDFT has proven its worth in providing valuable insights into various static as well as time-dependent physicochemical problems. Herein, having briefly outlined the basics of CDFT, we describe various situations where CDFT based reactivity theory could be employed in order to gain insights into the underlying mechanism of several chemical processes.
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- Debdutta Chakraborty
- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200F-2404 3001 Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 721302 West Bengal India +91 3222 255303 +91 3222 283304
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai Mumbai 400076 India
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Pooventhiran T, Al-Zaqri N, Alsalme A, Bhattacharyya U, Thomas R. Structural aspects, conformational preference and other physico-chemical properties of Artesunate and the formation of self-assembly with graphene quantum dots: A first principle analysis and surface enhancement of Raman activity investigation. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Li M, He X, Chen J, Wang B, Liu S, Rong C. Density Functional Theory and Information-Theoretic Approach Study on the Origin of Homochirality in Helical Structures. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:1269-1278. [PMID: 33527833 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c10310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Homochirality of macromolecules such as proteins and DNA is one of the most striking features in nature; yet, there is still no convincing theory to explain its origin. In a recent work by one of the present authors (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 8690-8696), a general proposal from the viewpoint of thermodynamics has been put forward. It proposes that it is the handedness of helices ubiquitous in biological macromolecules that plays the decisive role. It also unveiled that there exist strong cooperativity effects dominated by favorable electrostatic interactions in the homochiral conformer. In this work, making use of analytical tools, we recently developed a density functional theory and an information-theoretic approach and through four sets of helical structures we designed for the present study, we examine these systems to provide new insights about these properties. We found that the 310-helix and the α-helix are markedly different in cooperativity from the viewpoint of both the total energy and its three components. The electrostatic dominance of homochiral species is manifested by both the electron charge distribution and information gain. At the atomic level, different elements behave significantly differently because they play different roles in the systems. Our results from this work validate that these analytical tools can be applied to homochiral systems, which can be further extended to others with potential interest in asymmetric synthesis and macromolecular assembly where the Principle of Homochirality Hierarchy comes into play.
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- Meng Li
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P.R. China
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P.R. China
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Structural, physico-chemical landscapes, ground state and excited state properties in different solvent atmosphere of Avapritinib and its ultrasensitive detection using SERS/GERS on self-assembly formation with graphene quantum dots. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Al-Zaqri N, Pooventhiran T, Alsalme A, Rao DJ, Rao SS, Sankar A, Thomas R. First-Principle Studies of Istradefylline with Emphasis on the Stability, Reactivity, Interactions and Wavefunction-Dependent Properties. Polycycl Aromat Compd 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/10406638.2020.1857273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Nabil Al-Zaqri
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Ibb University, Ibb, Yemen
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- Department of Chemistry, St. Berchmans College (Autonomous), Changanassery, Kerala, India
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, Dr Lankapalli Bullayya College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Kandaswami Kandar's College, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Chemistry, St. Berchmans College (Autonomous), Changanassery, Kerala, India
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He X, Yu D, Wu J, Wang B, Rong C, Chattaraj PK, Liu S. Towards understanding metal aromaticity in different spin states: A density functional theory and information-theoretic approach analysis. Chem Phys Lett 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2020.138065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Al-Zaqri N, Pooventhiran T, Alharthi FA, Bhattacharyya U, Thomas R. Structural investigations, quantum mechanical studies on proton and metal affinity and biological activity predictions of selpercatinib. J Mol Liq 2020; 325:114765. [PMID: 33746318 PMCID: PMC7957184 DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Cancer of the lungs and thyroid is particularly difficult to manage and treat. Notably, selpercatinib has recently been suggested as an effective drug to combat these diseases. The entire world is currently tackling the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-19 virus. Numerous pharmaceuticals have been evaluated for the management of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-19 (i.e., COVID-19). In this study, selpercatinib was proposed as a potential inhibitor of different SARS-CoV-19 proteins. Several intriguing effects of the molecule were found during the conducted computational investigations. Selpercatinib could effectively act as a proton sponge and exhibited high proton affinity in solution. Moreover, it was able to form complexes with metal ions in aqueous solutions. Specifically, the compound displayed high affinity towards zinc ions, which are important for the prevention of virus multiplication inside human cells. However, due to their charge, zinc ions are not able to pass the lipid bilayer and enter the cell. Thus, it was determined that selpercatinib could act as an ionophore, effectively transporting active zinc ions into cells. Furthermore, various quantum mechanical analyses, including energy studies, evaluation of the reactivity parameters, examination of the electron localisation and delocalisation properties, as well as assessment of the nonlinear optical (NLO) properties and information entropy, were conducted herein. The performed docking studies (docking scores -9.3169, -9.1002, -8.1853 and -8.1222 kcal mol-1) demonstrated that selpercatinib strongly bound with four isolated SARS-CoV-2 proteins.
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- Nabil Al-Zaqri
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Ibb University, P. O. Box 70270, Ibb, Yemen
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- Department of Chemistry, St. Berchmans College (Autonomous), Changanassery, Kerala, India
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, St. Berchmans College (Autonomous), Changanassery, Kerala, India
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- Department of Chemistry, St. Berchmans College (Autonomous), Changanassery, Kerala, India
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Alipour M, Khorrami M. Pauli energy and information-theoretic approach for evaluating dynamic and nondynamic electron correlation. Theor Chem Acc 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-020-02689-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Chang SJ, Bai HL, Ren FD, Luo XC, Xu JJ. Theoretical prediction of the impact sensitivities of energetic C-nitro compounds. J Mol Model 2020; 26:219. [PMID: 32728987 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-020-04481-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In order to design high-energetic and insensitive explosives, the frontier orbital energy gaps, surface electrostatic potentials, nitro group charges, bond dissociation energies (BDEs) of the C-NO2 trigger bonds, and intermolecular interactions obtained by the M06-2X/6-311++G(2d,p) method were quantitatively correlated with the experimental drop hammer potential energies of 10 typical C-nitro explosives. The changes of several information-theoretic quantities (ITQs) in the density functional reactivity theory were discussed upon the formation of complexes. The BDEs in the explosives with six-membered ring are larger than those with five-membered ring. The frontier orbital energy gaps of the compounds with benzene ring are larger than those with N-heterocycle. The models involving the intermolecular interaction energies and the energy gaps could be used to predict the impact sensitivity of the C-nitro explosives, while those involving ΔSS, ΔIF, and ΔSGBP are invalid. With the more and more ITQs, the further studies are needed to seek for a good correlation between impact sensitivity measurements and ITQs for the energetic C-nitro compounds. The origin of sensitivity was revealed by the reduced density gradient method.
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- Shuang-Jun Chang
- School of Environment and safety Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China.
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- School of Environment and safety Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China
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- School of Environment and safety Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China
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- School of Environment and safety Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China
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Gong HR, Ren FD, Zhao LX, Cao DL, Wang JL. Hydration and swelling: a theoretical investigation on the cooperativity effect of H-bonding interactions between p-hydroxy hydroxymethyl calix[4]/[5]arene and H 2O by many-body interaction and density functional reactivity theory. J Mol Model 2020; 26:190. [PMID: 32613574 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-020-04442-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In order to explore the nature of the hydration and swelling of superabsorbent resin, a theoretical investigation into the cooperativity effect of the H-bonding interactions in the hydrates of four model compounds that can be regarded as the units of hydroquinone formaldehyde resin (HFR) (i.e., O-hydroxymethyl-1,4-dihydroxybenzene, methylene di-O-hydroxymethyl-1,4-dihydroxybenzene, p-hydroxy hydroxymethyl calix[4]arene and p-hydroxy hydroxymethyl calix[5]arene) was carried out by many-body interaction and density functional reactivity theory. The HFR···H2O···H2O complexes, in which the H2O···H2O moieties are bound with both the hydroxyl groups of HFR, are the most stable. For the HFR(H2O)n clusters, the interaction energy per building block is increased as the number of the size n increases, indicating the cooperativity effect. Therefore, a deduction is given that the cooperativity effects of the H-bonding interactions play an important role in the process of the hydration and swelling of HFR, and the swelling behavior is mainly attributed to the cooperativity effects which arised from the interactions between the H2O molecules. The origin of the cooperativity effect was examined employing several information-theoretic quantities in the density functional reactivity theory. The degree of swelling of HFR was quantitated using a measure of volume. Graphical abstract.
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- Hui-Ru Gong
- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China
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Yu D, Rong C, Lu T, Geerlings P, De Proft F, Alonso M, Liu S. Switching between Hückel and Möbius aromaticity: a density functional theory and information-theoretic approach study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:4715-4730. [PMID: 32057037 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp06120g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Benziporphyrins are versatile macrocycles exhibiting aromaticity switching behaviors. The existence of both Hückel and Möbius (anti)aromaticity has been reported in these systems, whose validity is respectively governed by the [4n + 2] and [4n] π-electron rule on the macrocyclic pathway. Despite the experimental evidence on the floppiness of benziporphyrins, the switching mechanism between Hückel and Möbius structures is still not clear, as well as the factors influencing the stability of the different π-conjugation topologies. For these reasons, we performed a systematic study on A,D-di-p-benzihexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) with two redox states corresponding to [28] and [30] π-electron conjugation pathways. Whereas benzi[28]hexaphyrin obeys Möbius aromaticity, benzi[30]hexaphyrin follows Hückel aromaticity. The dynamic interconversion between Möbius and Hückel aromaticity is investigated through the rotation of a phenylene ring, which acts as the topology selector. Further analyses of the energy profiles using energy decomposition and information-theoretic approaches provide new insights into conformational stability, aromaticity and antiaromaticity for these species. Strong and opposite cross correlations between aromaticity indexes and information-theoretic quantities were found for the two macrocyclic systems with opposite global aromaticity and antiaromaticity behaviors. These results indicate that Hückel and Möbius aromaticity and antiaromaticity, though qualitatively different, are closely related and can be interchanged, and information-theoretic quantities provide a novel understanding about their relevance. Our present results should provide in-depth insights to appreciate the nature and origin about Möbius (anti)aromaticity and its close relationship with Hückel (anti)aromaticity.
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- Donghai Yu
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China.
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Geerlings P, Chamorro E, Chattaraj PK, De Proft F, Gázquez JL, Liu S, Morell C, Toro-Labbé A, Vela A, Ayers P. Conceptual density functional theory: status, prospects, issues. Theor Chem Acc 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-020-2546-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Cortez CM, Silva D. Biological Stress as a Principle of Nature: A Review of Literature. OPEN JOURNAL OF BIOPHYSICS 2020; 10:150-173. [DOI: 10.4236/ojbiphy.2020.103012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/30/2023]
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Matrodi A, Noorizadeh S. N-Derivatives of Shannon entropy density as response functions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:21535-21542. [PMID: 32959037 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03808c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The exact first and second order partial derivatives of Shannon entropy density with respect to the number of electrons at constant external potential are introduced as new descriptors for prediction of the active sites of a molecule. The derivatives, which are a measure of the inhomogeneity of electron density, are calculated both exactly (from analytical forms) and approximately (using the finite difference method) for some molecular systems. According to the maximum entropy principle, the extreme value of the first order derivative on the surface of a given molecule should determine the active sites of the molecule in electrophilic and nucleophilic attack. The second order derivative indicates where the Shannon entropy is more concentrated or depleted during the electron exchange. Although these derivatives on the surfaces of helium and neon atoms are uniform, the corresponding values for argon, krypton and xenon atoms are not. This could explain the greater tendency of heavy noble gas atoms to form stable compounds. A dual descriptor is also defined as the difference between the left and right first order derivatives of Shannon entropy density, which allows one to simultaneously predict the preferable sites for electrophilic and nucleophilic attack over the system at point r. Therefore, the reactivity of an atom in a molecule requires the non-uniformity of the first and second order derivatives of Shannon entropy density on the surface of that atom.
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- Abdolkarim Matrodi
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
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Rong C, Wang B, Zhao D, Liu S. Information‐theoretic approach in density functional theory and its recent applications to chemical problems. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Chunying Rong
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China) Hunan Normal University Changsha P.R. China
- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan Normal University Changsha P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan Normal University Changsha P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Nanjing P.R. China
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- Research Computing Centre University of North Carolina Chapel Hill North Carolina
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Liu S. Identity for Kullback-Leibler divergence in density functional reactivity theory. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:141103. [PMID: 31615242 DOI: 10.1063/1.5124244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Density functional reactivity theory (DFRT) makes use of simple electron density functionals to appreciate chemical reactivity. The Kullback-Leibler divergence, also called information gain or relative Shannon entropy, as a key component of the DFRT framework has entertained a few fascinating applications in the recent literature. For instance, it was employed to rationalize the Hirshfeld stockholder partition of atoms in molecules. It has also been applied to both determine regioselectivity and simultaneously quantify molecular electrophilicity and nucleophilicity, the capability of atoms in molecules to accept and donate electrons. In this work, we examine the local behavior of the Kullback-Leibler divergence and present a novel identity for it. The validity of the identity is subsequently verified by the numerical results of neutral atoms from He to Kr with different choices of the reference density. Analytical properties and local behaviors of the three new functions introduced in the identity are discussed. These new local functions, together with the identity unveiled in this work, should provide new perspectives for us to further develop the DFRT framework with added insights about the local behavior of molecular physiochemical properties.
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- Shubin Liu
- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420, USA
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Wang B, Yu D, Zhao D, Rong C, Liu S. Nature and origin of γ-gauche effect in sulfoxides: A density functional theory and information-theoretic approach study. Chem Phys Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2019.06.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Wu J, Yu D, Liu S, Rong C, Zhong A, Chattaraj PK, Liu S. Is It Possible To Determine Oxidation States for Atoms in Molecules Using Density-Based Quantities? An Information-Theoretic Approach and Conceptual Density Functional Theory Study. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:6751-6760. [PMID: 31305075 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b05054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The oxidation state, also called oxidation number, of atoms in molecules is a fundamental chemical concept. It is defined as the charge of an atom in a molecule after the ionic approximation of its heteronuclear bonds is applied. Even though for simple molecules the assignment of oxidation states is straightforward, redundancy and ambiguity do exist for others. In this work, we present a density-based framework to determine the oxidation state using the quantities from the information-theoretic approach. As a proof of concept, we examined six elements for a total of 49 molecules. Strong linear correlations were obtained with Shannon entropy, Ghosh-Berkowitz-Parr entropy, information gain, relative Rényi entropy of orders 2 and 3, and Hirshfeld charge. We also discovered that the crystal radius of elements plays the key role in rationalizing the system dependent nature of these strong linear correlations. The validity and effectiveness of our results were demonstrated by the examples of molecules containing elements with two or more oxidation states. Our results should be applicable to more complicated systems in assigning different oxidation states.
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- Jingyi Wu
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Hunan Normal University , Changsha , Hunan 410081 , P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Hunan Normal University , Changsha , Hunan 410081 , P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Hunan Normal University , Changsha , Hunan 410081 , P.R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Hunan Normal University , Changsha , Hunan 410081 , P.R. China
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- School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering , Taizhou University , 1139 Shifu Road , Linhai , Zhejiang 318000 , P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical Studies , Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur 721302 , India
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- Research Computing Center , University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599-3420 , United States
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Shannon, Rényi, Tsallis Entropies and Onicescu Information Energy for Low-Lying Singly Excited States of Helium. ATOMS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/atoms7030070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Knowledge of the electronic structures of atomic and molecular systems deepens our understanding of the desired system. In particular, several information-theoretic quantities, such as Shannon entropy, have been applied to quantify the extent of electron delocalization for the ground state of various systems. To explore excited states, we calculated Shannon entropy and two of its one-parameter generalizations, Rényi entropy of order α and Tsallis entropy of order α , and Onicescu Information Energy of order α for four low-lying singly excited states (1s2s 1 S e , 1s2s 3 S e , 1s3s 1 S e , and 1s3s 3 S e states) of helium. This paper compares the behavior of these three quantities of order 0.5 to 9 for the ground and four excited states. We found that, generally, a higher excited state had a larger Rényi entropy, larger Tsallis entropy, and smaller Onicescu information energy. However, this trend was not definite and the singlet–triplet reversal occurred for Rényi entropy, Tsallis entropy and Onicescu information energy at a certain range of order α .
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Rincon L, Javier Torres F, Becerra M, Liu S, Fritsch A, Almeida R. On the separation of the information content of the Fermi and Coulomb holes and their influence on the electronic properties of molecular systems. Mol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1530462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Luis Rincon
- Grupo de Química Computacional y Teórica (QCT-USFQ) and Instituto de Simulación Computacional (ISC-USFQ), Dept. de Ingeniería Química, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), Mérida, Venezuela
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- Grupo de Química Computacional y Teórica (QCT-USFQ) and Instituto de Simulación Computacional (ISC-USFQ), Dept. de Ingeniería Química, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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- Grupo de Química Computacional y Teórica (QCT-USFQ) and Instituto de Simulación Computacional (ISC-USFQ), Dept. de Ingeniería Química, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Institut des Sciences Molèculaires, Theoretical Chemistry & Modeling Group, Universitè Bordeaux, Talance, France
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), Mérida, Venezuela
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Alipour M, Badooei Z. Toward Electron Correlation and Electronic Properties from the Perspective of Information Functional Theory. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:6424-6437. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b05703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Mojtaba Alipour
- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71946-84795, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71946-84795, Iran
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SCI: a robust and reliable density-based descriptor to determine multiple covalent bond orders. J Mol Model 2018; 24:213. [PMID: 30032451 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-018-3721-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Very recently [J. Phys. Chem. A 2018, 122 (11), 3087-3095], we proposed to employ the Pauli energy to identify and determine strong covalent interactions (SCI), whose bond order are equal to or larger than two. This is done through the signature isosurface shape between the two bonding atoms. We discovered that the signature shape for a double, triple, and quadruple covalent bond is like a dumbbell, donut (torus), and four-beats, respectively. Systems with even higher bond orders were examined and confirmed. This work is a follow-up study of our previous work. The dependence of the signature isosurface shape on the choice of methodologies and basis sets is systematically investigated. Its effectiveness and robustness in determining bond orders are highlighted again with more examples. In addition, using the molybdenum dimer in different environments, e.g., in vacuum, sandwiched between molecules, and encapsulated in the C80 cage, as illustrative examples, we show that, generally speaking, bond strength and bond order are two different chemical concepts. For systems containing transition metals, it is not always true that a short metal-metal bond length corresponds to a larger bond order. Put together, these results should provide additional pieces of convincing evidence showing that the SCI index is a robust and reliable density-based descriptor to accurately determine multiple covalent bond orders.
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Information equilibria, subsystem entanglement, and dynamics of the overall entropic descriptors of molecular electronic structure. J Mol Model 2018; 24:212. [PMID: 30027486 PMCID: PMC6061096 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-018-3699-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2018] [Accepted: 05/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Overall descriptors of the information (determinicity) and entropy (uncertainty) content of complex molecular states are reexamined. These resultant concepts combine the classical (probability) contributions of Fisher and Shannon, and the relevant nonclassical supplements due to the state phase/current. The information-theoretic principles determining equilibria in molecules and their fragments are explored and the nonadditive part of the global entropy is advocated as a descriptor of the classical index of the quantum entanglement of molecular subsystems. Affinities associated with the probability and phase fluxes are identified and the criterion of vanishing overall information-source is shown to identify the system stationary electronic states. The production of resultant density of the gradient-information is expressed in terms of the conjugate affinities (forces, perturbations) and fluxes (currents, responses). The Schrödinger dynamics of probability and phase components of molecular electronic states is used to determine the temporal evolution of the overall gradient information and complex entropy. The global sources of the resultant information/entropy descriptors are shown to be of purely nonclassical origin, thus identically vanishing in real electronic states, e.g., the nondegenerate ground state of a molecule.
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Rong C, Zhao D, Yu D, Liu S. Quantification and origin of cooperativity: insights from density functional reactivity theory. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:17990-17998. [PMID: 29927447 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03092h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Cooperativity is a widely used chemical concept whose existence is ubiquitous in chemical and biological systems but whose quantification is still controversial and origin much less appreciated. In this work, using the interaction energy of a molecular system, which is composed of multiple copies of a building block, we propose a quantitative measurement to evaluate the cooperativity effect. This quantification approach is then applied to six molecular systems, i.e., water cluster, argon cluster, protonated water cluster, zinc atom cluster, water cluster on top of a graphene sheet, and alpha helix of glycine amino acids, each with up to 20 copies of the building block. Cooperativity is seen in all these systems. Both positive and negative cooperativity effects are observed. Employing the two energy partition schemes in density functional theory and the information-theoretic quantities such as Shannon entropy, Fisher information, information gain, etc., we then examine the origin of the cooperativity effect for these systems. Strong linear correlations between the cooperativity measure and some of these theoretical quantities have been unveiled. With these correlations, we are able to quantitatively account for their origin of cooperativity. Our results show that the interactions governing the existence and validity of the cooperativity effect are complicated. An opposite mechanism in enthalpy-entropy compensation for positive and negative cooperativity has been unveiled. These results should provide new insights and understandings from a different viewpoint about the nature and origin of cooperativity to appreciate this vastly important chemical concept.
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- Chunying Rong
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha Hunan 410081, P. R. China
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Liu S, Rong C, Lu T. Electronic forces as descriptors of nucleophilic and electrophilic regioselectivity and stereoselectivity. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:1496-1503. [PMID: 27982154 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp06376d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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One of the main tasks of theoretical chemistry is to rationalize computational results with chemical insights. Key concepts of such nature include nucleophilicity, electrophilicity, regioselectivity, and stereoselectivity. While computational tools are available to predict barrier heights and other reactivity properties with acceptable accuracy, a conceptual framework to appreciate above quantities is still lacking. In this work, we introduce the electronic force as the fundamental driving force of chemical processes to understand and predict molecular reactivity. It has three components but only two are independent. These forces, electrostatic and steric, can be employed as reliable descriptors for nucleophilic and electrophilic regioselectivity and stereoselectivity. The advantages of using these forces to evaluate molecular reactivity are that electrophilic and nucleophilic attacks are featured by distinct characteristics in the electrostatic force and no knowledge of quantum effects included in the kinetic and exchange-correlation energies is required. Examples are provided to highlight the validity and general applicability of these reactivity descriptors. Possible applications in ambident reactivity, σ and π holes, frustrated Lewis pairs, and stereoselective reactions are also included in this work.
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- Shubin Liu
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China and Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3420, USA.
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing 100022, P. R. China and Beijing Quanton Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing 100024, P. R. China
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Steric charge is an informative descriptor providing novel insights to appreciate the steric effect and stereoselectivity for chemical processes and transformations.
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- Shubin Liu
- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina
- Chapel Hill
- USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Hunan University of Medicine
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University
- P. R. China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences
- Beijing 100022
- P. R. China
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Cao X, Rong C, Zhong A, Lu T, Liu S. Molecular acidity: An accurate description with information-theoretic approach in density functional reactivity theory. J Comput Chem 2017; 39:117-129. [PMID: 29076175 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Revised: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Molecular acidity is one of the important physiochemical properties of a molecular system, yet its accurate calculation and prediction are still an unresolved problem in the literature. In this work, we propose to make use of the quantities from the information-theoretic (IT) approach in density functional reactivity theory and provide an accurate description of molecular acidity from a completely new perspective. To illustrate our point, five different categories of acidic series, singly and doubly substituted benzoic acids, singly substituted benzenesulfinic acids, benzeneseleninic acids, phenols, and alkyl carboxylic acids, have been thoroughly examined. We show that using IT quantities such as Shannon entropy, Fisher information, Ghosh-Berkowitz-Parr entropy, information gain, Onicescu information energy, and relative Rényi entropy, one is able to simultaneously predict experimental pKa values of these different categories of compounds. Because of the universality of the quantities employed in this work, which are all density dependent, our approach should be general and be applicable to other systems as well. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Xiaofang Cao
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, (Ministry of Education of China), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, 410081, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, (Ministry of Education of China), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, 410081, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Road, Linhai, Zhejiang, 318000, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences, Beijing, 100022, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, (Ministry of Education of China), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, 410081, People's Republic of China.,Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599-3420
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Yu D, Rong C, Lu T, Chattaraj PK, De Proft F, Liu S. Aromaticity and antiaromaticity of substituted fulvene derivatives: perspectives from the information-theoretic approach in density functional reactivity theory. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:18635-18645. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp03544f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Strong correlations among aromaticity descriptors and information-theoretic quantities are unveiled, providing novel insights about aromaticity and antiaromaticity from different perspectives.
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- Donghai Yu
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China)
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Hunan Normal University
- Changsha
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China)
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Hunan Normal University
- Changsha
- P. R. China
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- Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences
- Beijing 100022
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical Studies
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Kharagpur 721302
- India
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- Research Group of General Chemistry (ALGC)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- 1050 Brussels
- Belgium
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research (Ministry of Education of China)
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Hunan Normal University
- Changsha
- P. R. China
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Huang Y, Rong C, Zhang R, Liu S. Evaluating frontier orbital energy and HOMO/LUMO gap with descriptors from density functional reactivity theory. J Mol Model 2016; 23:3. [DOI: 10.1007/s00894-016-3175-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 11/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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