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Suzuki W, Mizuhata Y, Tokitoh N, Teranishi T. Dioxygen Activation by Gold(I)-Distorted Porphyrin Dinuclear Complexes. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202401242. [PMID: 38888030 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401242] [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: 05/26/2024] [Revised: 06/15/2024] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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Interactions between gold-based materials and dioxygen (O2) have motivated researchers to understand reaction mechanisms for O2 activation by homo- and heterogeneous gold catalysts. In this work, gold(I) porphyrin dinuclear complexes were synthesized with a saddle-distorted porphyrin ligand. The gold(I) porphyrin complexes showed unprecedented O2 activation in the presence of protic solvents to form gold(III) tetradentate porphyrin complexes. Mechanistic insights into the O2 activation by the gold(I) center were elucidated by spectroscopic measurements and theoretical calculations, revealing that dissociation of halides on the gold(I) center by alcohol solvents and hydrogen bonding of an N-H proton in the distorted porphyrin with dioxygen played important roles in establishing the unique reactivities of gold(I) complexes.
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- Wataru Suzuki
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
- Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha Himeji, Hyogo, 671-2280, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
- Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Sciences, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
- Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Sciences, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Gokasho Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
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Campagnolo F, Aneggi E, Baratta W, Munir T, Zuccaccia D. Diffusion Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements on Cationic Gold (I) Complexes in Catalytic Conditions: Counterion and Solvent Effects. Molecules 2024; 29:3018. [PMID: 38998970 PMCID: PMC11243661 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29133018] [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: 05/10/2024] [Revised: 06/18/2024] [Accepted: 06/20/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024] Open
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The amount of free ions, ion pairs, and higher aggregate of the possible species present in a solution during the gold(I)-catalyzed alkoxylation of unsaturated hydrocarbon, i.e., ISIP (inner sphere ion pair) [(NHC)AuX] and OSIP (outer sphere ion pairs) [(NHC)Au(TME)X] [NHC 1,3-bis(2,6-di-isopropylphenyl)-imidazol-2-ylidene; TME = tetramethylethylene (2,3-bis methyl-butene); X- = Cl-, BF4-, OTf-; and OTs- BArF4- (ArF = 3,5-(CF3)2C6H3)], has been determined. The 1H and 19F DOSY NMR measurements conducted in catalytic conditions indicate that the dissociation degree (α) of the equilibrium ion pair/free ions {[(NHC)Au(TME)X] [(NHC)Au(TME)]+ + X-} depends on the nature of the counterion (X-) when chloroform is the catalytic solvent: while the compounds containing OTs- and OTf- as the counterion gave a low α (which means a high number of ion pairs) of 0.13 and 0.24, respectively, the compounds containing BF4- and BArF4- showed higher α values of 0.36 and 0.32, respectively. These results experimentally confirm previous deductions based on catalytic and theoretical data: the lower the α value, the greater the catalytic activity because the anion that can activate methanol during a nucleophilic attack, although the lower propensity to activate methanol of BF4- and BArF4-, as suggested by the DFT calculations, cannot be completely overlooked. As for the effect of the solvent, α increases as the dielectric constant increases, as expected, and in particular, green solvents with high dielectric constants show a very high α (0.90, 0.84, 0.80, and 0.70 for propylene carbonate, γ-valerolactone, acetone, and methanol, respectively), thus confirming that the moderately high activity of NHC-Au-OTf in these solvents is due to the specific effect of polar functionalities (O-H, C=O, O-R) in activating methanol. Finally, the DOSY measurements conducted in p-Cymene show the formation of quadrupole species: under these conditions, the anion can better exercise its 'template' and 'activating' roles, giving the highest TOF.
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- Filippo Campagnolo
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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Rossi E, Sorbelli D, Belanzoni P, Belpassi L, Ciancaleoni G. Monomeric gold hydrides for carbon dioxide reduction: ligand effect on the reactivity. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202303512. [PMID: 38189856 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202303512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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We analyzed the ligand electronic effect in the reaction between a [LAu(I)H]0/- hydride species and CO2, leading to a coordinated formate [LAu(HCOO)]0/-. We explored 20 different ligands, such as carbenes, phosphines and others, carefully selected to cover a wide range of electron-donor and -acceptor properties. We included in the study the only ligand, an NHC-coordinated diphosphene, that, thus far, experimentally demonstrated facile and reversible reaction between the monomeric gold(I) hydride and carbon dioxide. We elucidated the previously unknown reaction mechanism, which resulted to be concerted and common to all the ligands: the gold-hydrogen bond attacks the carbon atom of CO2 with one oxygen atom coordinating to the gold center. A correlation between the ligand σ donor ability, which affects the electron density at the reactive site, and the kinetic activation barriers of the reaction has been found. This systematic study offers useful guidelines for the rational design of new ligands for this reaction, while suggesting a few promising and experimentally accessible potential candidates for the stoichiometric or catalytic CO2 activation.
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- Elisa Rossi
- Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, I-56124, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia, I-06123, Italy
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637, US
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia, I-06123, Italy
- CNR Institute of Chemical Science and Technologies "Giulio Natta" (CNR-SCITEC), c/o Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia, I-06123, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Chemical Science and Technologies "Giulio Natta" (CNR-SCITEC), c/o Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia, I-06123, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, I-56124, Italy
- CIRCC, Bari, Italy
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Khamaru K, Pal U, Shee S, Lo R, Seal K, Ghosh P, Maiti NC, Banerji B. Metal-Free Activation of Molecular Oxygen by Quaternary Ammonium-Based Ionic Liquid: A Detail Mechanistic Study. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:6912-6925. [PMID: 38421821 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Most oxidation processes in common organic synthesis and chemical biology require transition metal catalysts or metalloenzymes. Herein, we report a detailed mechanistic study of a metal-free oxygen (O2) activation protocol on benzylamine/alcohols using simple quaternary alkylammonium-based ionic liquids to produce products such as amide, aldehyde, imine, and in some cases, even aromatized products. NMR and various control experiments established the product formation and reaction mechanism, which involved the conversion of molecular oxygen into a hydroperoxyl radical via a proton-coupled electron transfer process. Detection of hydrogen peroxide in the reaction medium using colorimetric analysis supported the proposed mechanism of oxygen activation. Furthermore, first-principles calculations using density functional theory (DFT) revealed that reaction coordinates and transition state spin densities have a unique spin conversion of triplet oxygen leading to formation of singlet products via a minimum energy crossing point. In addition to DFT, domain-based local pair natural orbital coupled cluster, (DLPNO-CCSD(T)), and complete active space self-consistent field, CASSCF(20,14) methods complemented the above findings. Partial density of states analysis showed stabilization of π* orbital of oxygen in the presence of ionic liquid, making it susceptible to hydrogen abstraction in a mild, metal-free condition. Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopic (ICP-AES) analysis of reactant and ionic liquids clearly showed the absence of any significant transition metal contamination. The current results described the origin of O2 activation within the context of molecular orbital (MO) theory and opened up a new avenue for the use of ionic liquids as inexpensive, multifunctional and high-performance alternative to metal-based catalysts for O2 activation.
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Flemingovo nám. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur, Kolkata 700103, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Kolkata 700032, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Kolkata 700032, India
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Phearman AS, Ardon Y, Goldberg KI. Insertion of Molecular Oxygen into a Gold(III)-Hydride Bond. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:4045-4059. [PMID: 38290523 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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The use of molecular oxygen as an oxidant in chemical synthesis has significant environmental and economic benefits, and it is widely used as such in large-scale industrial processes. However, its adoption in highly selective homogeneous catalytic transformations, particularly to produce oxygenated organics, has been hindered by our limited understanding of the mechanisms by which O2 reacts with transition metals. Of particular relevance are the mechanisms of the reactions of oxygen with late transition metal hydrides as these metal centers are better poised to release oxygenated products. Homogeneous catalysis with gold complexes has markedly increased, and herein we report the synthesis and full characterization of a rare AuIII-H, supported by a diphosphine pincer ligand (tBuPCP = 2,6-bis(di-tert-butylphosphinomethyl)benzene). [(tBuPCP)AuIII-H]+ was found to cleanly react with molecular oxygen to yield a stable AuIII-OOH complex that was also fully characterized. Extensive kinetic studies on the reaction via variable temperature NMR spectroscopy have been completed, and the results are consistent with an autoaccelerating radical chain mechanism. The observed kinetic behavior exhibits similarities to that of previously reported PdII-H and PtIV-H reactions with O2 but is not fully consistent with any known O2 insertion mechanism. As such, this study contributes to the nascent fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of aerobic oxidation of late metal hydrides.
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- Alexander S Phearman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Segato J, Aneggi E, Baratta W, Campagnolo F, Belpassi L, Belanzoni P, Zuccaccia D. Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Ion Pairing in Gold(III) Catalysts. Organometallics 2023; 42:2973-2982. [PMID: 37886625 PMCID: PMC10599130 DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.3c00293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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The ion pairing structure of the possible species present in solution during the gold(III)-catalyzed hydration of alkynes: [(ppy)Au(NHC)Y]X2 and [(ppy)Au(NHC)X]X [ppy = 2-phenylpyridine, NHC = NHCiPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-di-isopropylphenyl)-imidazol-2-ylidene; NHC = NHCmes = 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-imidazol-2-ylidene X = Cl-, BF4-, OTf-; Y = H2O and 3-hexyne] are determined. The nuclear overhauser effect nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experimental measurements integrated with a theoretical description of the system (full optimization of different ion pairs and calculation of the Coulomb potential surface) indicate that the preferential position of the counterion is tunable through the choice of the ancillary ligands (NHCiPr, NHCmes, ppy, and Y) in [(ppy)Au(NHC)(3-hexyne)]X2 activated complexes that undergo nucleophilic attack. The counterion can approach near NHC, pyridine ring of ppy, and gold atom. From these positions, the anion can act as a template, holding water in the right position for the outer-sphere attack, as observed in gold(I) catalysts.
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- Jacopo Segato
- Dipartimento
di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Istituto
di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche (SCITEC), Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Istituto
di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche (SCITEC), Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università
degli Studi di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Agroalimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Sezione di Chimica, Università di Udine, Via Cotonificio 108, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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Zhao L, Zou W. A general method for locating stationary points on the mixed-spin surface of spin-forbidden reaction with multiple spin states. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:2895244. [PMID: 37290081 DOI: 10.1063/5.0151630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/25/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Some chemical reactions proceed on multiple potential energy surfaces and are often accompanied by a change in spin multiplicity, being called spin-forbidden reactions, where the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects play a crucial role. In order to efficiently investigate spin-forbidden reactions with two spin states, Yang et al. [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 4129-4136 (2018)] proposed a two-state spin-mixing (TSSM) model, where the SOC effects between the two spin states are simulated by a geometry-independent constant. Inspired by the TSSM model, we suggest a multiple-state spin-mixing (MSSM) model in this paper for the general case with any number of spin states, and its analytic first and second derivatives have been developed for locating stationary points on the mixed-spin potential energy surface and estimating thermochemical energies. To demonstrate the performance of the MSSM model, some spin-forbidden reactions involving 5d transition elements are calculated using the density functional theory (DFT), and the results are compared with the two-component relativistic ones. It is found that MSSM DFT and two-component DFT calculations may provide very similar stationary-point information on the lowest mixed-spin/spinor energy surface, including structures, vibrational frequencies, and zero-point energies. For the reactions containing saturated 5d elements, the reaction energies by MSSM DFT and two-component DFT agree very well within 3 kcal/mol. As for the two reactions OsO+ + CH4 → OOs(CH2)+ + H2 and W + CH4 → WCH2 + H2 involving unsaturated 5d elements, MSSM DFT may also yield good reaction energies of similar accuracy but with some counterexamples. Nevertheless, the energies may be remarkably improved by a posteriori single point energy calculations using two-component DFT at the MSSM DFT optimized geometries, and the maximum error of about 1 kcal/mol is almost independent of the SOC constant used. The MSSM method as well as the developed computer program provides an effective utility for studying spin-forbidden reactions.
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- Long Zhao
- Institute of Modern Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710127, People's Republic of China
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710127, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710127, People's Republic of China
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710127, People's Republic of China
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Cuyacot BJR, Novotný J, Berger RJF, Komorovsky S, Marek R. Relativistic Spin–Orbit Electronegativity and the Chemical Bond Between a Heavy Atom and a Light Atom. Chemistry 2022; 28:e202200277. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Ben Joseph R. Cuyacot
- CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University Kamenice 5 62500 Brno Czechia
- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Masaryk University Kamenice 5 62500 Brno Czechia
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- CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University Kamenice 5 62500 Brno Czechia
- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Masaryk University Kamenice 5 62500 Brno Czechia
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics of Materials Paris Lodron University of Salzburg Jakob-Haringerstr. 2 A 5020 Salzburg Austria
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Slovak Academy of Sciences Dúbravská cesta 9 84536 Bratislava Slovakia
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- CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University Kamenice 5 62500 Brno Czechia
- Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Masaryk University Kamenice 5 62500 Brno Czechia
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Dhara D, Scheschkewitz D, Chandrasekhar V, Yildiz CB, Jana A. Reactivity of NHC/diphosphene-coordinated Au(I)-hydride. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:809-812. [PMID: 33367425 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc05461e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
We report the reactivity of isolable Au(i)-hydride stabilized by an NHC-coordinated diphosphene towards substrates containing C-C and N-N multiple bonds (NHC = N-heterocyclcic carbene). Reactions with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate and azobenzene lead to a trans-addition of the Au(i)-H across the C-C triple bond and the N-N double bond, respectively. In contrast, the reaction with ethyl diazoacetate affords a gold(i)-hydrazonide as the 1,1-addition product to the terminal nitrogen atom. With phenyl acetylene, the corresponding Au(i)-alkynyl complex is obtained under the elimination of dihydrogen. Strikingly, diphosphene-containing Au(i)-hydride is more reactive - affording different products in some cases - than a related NHC-stabilized Au(i)-hydride without the mediating diphosphene moiety.
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- Debabrata Dhara
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500046, Telangana, India.
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- Krupp-Chair of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500046, Telangana, India. and Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India.
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- Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, University of Aksaray, Aksaray, Turkey.
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Gopanpally, Hyderabad-500046, Telangana, India.
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Belpassi L, De Santis M, Quiney HM, Tarantelli F, Storchi L. BERTHA: Implementation of a four-component Dirac–Kohn–Sham relativistic framework. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:164118. [PMID: 32357778 DOI: 10.1063/5.0002831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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- Leonardo Belpassi
- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche (SCITEC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Molecular Imaging, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università degli Studi ‘G. D’Annunzio’, Via dei Vestini 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy
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- Sason Shaik
- Institute of Chemistry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram Jerusalem 9090401 Israel
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Tao Y, Pei Z, Bellonzi N, Mao Y, Zou Z, Liang W, Yang Z, Shao Y. Constructing Spin-Adiabatic States for the Modeling of Spin-Crossing Reactions. I. A Shared-Orbital Implementation. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY 2020; 120:e26123. [PMID: 32773885 PMCID: PMC7409987 DOI: 10.1002/qua.26123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
In the modeling of spin-crossing reactions, it has become popular to directly explore the spin-adiabatic surfaces. Specifically, through constructing spin-adiabatic states from a two-state Hamiltonian (with spin-orbit coupling matrix elements) at each geometry, one can readily employ advanced geometry optimization algorithms to acquire a "transition state" structure, where the spin crossing occurs. In this work, we report the implementation of a fully-variational spin-adiabatic approach based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory spin states (sharing the same set of molecular orbitals) and the Breit-Pauli one-electron spin-orbit operator. For three model spin-crossing reactions [predissociation of N2O, singlet-triplet conversion in CH2, and CO addition to Fe(CO)4], the spin-crossing points were obtained. Our results also indicated the Breit-Pauli one-electron spin-orbit coupling can vary significantly along the reaction pathway on the spin-adiabatic energy surface. On the other hand, due to the restriction that low-spin and high-spin states share the same set of molecular orbitals, the acquired spin-adiabatic energy surface shows a cusp (i.e. a first-order discontinuity) at the crossing point, which prevents the use of standard geometry optimization algorithms to pinpoint the crossing point. An extension with this restriction removed is being developed to achieve the smoothness of spin-adiabatic surfaces.
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- Yunwen Tao
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpha, PA 19104
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
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Ricciarelli D, Belpassi L, Harvey JN, Belanzoni P. Spin-Forbidden Reactivity of Transition Metal Oxo Species: Exploring the Potential Energy Surfaces. Chemistry 2020; 26:3080-3089. [PMID: 31846105 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Spin-forbidden reactions are frequently encountered when transition metal oxo species are involved, particularly in oxygen transfer reactivity. The computational study of such reactions is challenging, because reactants and products are located on different spin potential energy surfaces (PESs). One possible approach to describe these reactions is the so-called minimum energy crossing point (MECP) between the diabatic reactants and products PESs. Alternatively, inclusion of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects allows to locate a saddle point on a single adiabatic PES (TS SOC). The TS SOC approach is rarely applied because of its high computational cost. Recently evidence for a TS SOC impact on significantly lowering the activation barrier in dioxygen addition to a carbene-gold(I)-hydride complex reaction (Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 7034-7039) or even on predicting a qualitatively different reaction mechanism in mercury methylation by cobalt corrinoid (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 11503-11506) has been put forward. Using MECP and TS SOC approaches a systematic analysis is provided here of three prototypical transition metal oxo spin-forbidden processes to investigate their implications on reactivity. Cycloaddition of ethylene to chromyl chloride (CrO2 Cl2 +C2 H4 ), iron oxide cation insertion into the hydrogen molecule (FeO+ +H2 ) and H-abstraction from toluene by a MnV -oxo-porphyrin cation (MnOP(H2 O)+ +C6 H5 CH3 ) are case studies. For all these processes the MECP and TS SOC results are compared, which show that the spin-forbidden reactivity of transition metal oxo species can be safely described by a MECP approach, at least for the first-row transition metals investigated here, where the spin-orbit coupling is relatively weak. However, for the Mn-oxo reactivity, the MECP and TS SOC have been found to be crucial for a correct description of the reaction mechanism. In particular, the TS SOC approach allows to straightforwardly explore detailed features of the adiabatic potential energy surface which in principle could affect the overall reaction rate in cases where the involved diabatic PESs are tricky.
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- Damiano Ricciarelli
- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Chemical Science and Technologies "Giulio Natta" (CNR-SCITEC), via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy.,Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2, via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy.,CNR Institute of Chemical Science and Technologies "Giulio Natta" (CNR-SCITEC), via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy.,Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2, via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy
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Takayanagi T, Saito K, Suzuki H, Watabe Y, Fujihara T. Computational Analysis of Two-State Reactivity in β-Hydride Elimination Mechanisms of Fe(II)– and Co(II)–Alkyl Complexes Supported by β-Diketiminate Ligand. Organometallics 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Toshiyuki Takayanagi
- Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama City, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama City, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama City, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama City, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama City, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
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Borghesi C, Radicchi E, Belpassi L, Meggiolaro D, De Angelis F, Nunzi F. The nature of the lead-iodine bond in PbI2: A case study for the modelling of lead halide perovskites. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2019.112558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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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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Wright AM, Pahls DR, Gary JB, Warner T, Williams JZ, M Knapp SM, Allen KE, Landis CR, Cundari TR, Goldberg KI. Experimental and Computational Investigation of the Aerobic Oxidation of a Late Transition Metal-Hydride. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:10830-10843. [PMID: 31259542 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b04706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The rational development of homogeneous catalytic systems for selective aerobic oxidations of organics has been hampered by the limited available knowledge of how oxygen reacts with important organometallic intermediates. Recently, several mechanisms for oxygen insertion into late transition metal-hydride bonds have been described. Contributing to this nascent understanding of how oxygen reacts with metal-hydrides, a detailed mechanistic study of the reaction of oxygen with the IrIII hydride complex (dmPhebox)Ir(OAc)(H) (1) in the presence of acetic acid, which proceeds to form the IrIII complex (dmPhebox)Ir(OAc)2(OH2) (2), is described. The evidence supports a multifaceted mechanism wherein a small amount of an initially formed metal hydroperoxide proceeds to generate a metal-oxyl species that then initiates a radical chain reaction to rapidly convert the remaining IrIII-H. Insight into the initiation step was gained through kinetic and mechanistic studies of the radical chain inhibition by BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene). Computational studies were employed to contribute to a further understanding of initiation and propagation in this system.
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- Ashley M Wright
- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Box 351700, Seattle , Washington 98195-1700 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM) , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070 , Denton , Texas 76203-5017 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM) , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070 , Denton , Texas 76203-5017 , United States.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Stephen F. Austin State University , P.O. Box 13006, SFA Station , Nacogdoches , Texas 75962-3006 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM) , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070 , Denton , Texas 76203-5017 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM) , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070 , Denton , Texas 76203-5017 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison , Wisconsin 53719 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Box 351700, Seattle , Washington 98195-1700 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison , Wisconsin 53719 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM) , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070 , Denton , Texas 76203-5017 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Box 351700, Seattle , Washington 98195-1700 , United States.,Department of Chemistry , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19104 , United States
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Gregori L, Sorbelli D, Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Belanzoni P. Alkyne Activation with Gold(III) Complexes: A Quantitative Assessment of the Ligand Effect by Charge-Displacement Analysis. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:3115-3129. [PMID: 30775914 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A quantitative assessment of the Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson components of the Au(III)-alkyne bond in a series of cationic and dicationic bis- and monocyclometalated gold(III) complexes with 2-butyne via charge-displacement (CD) analysis is reported. Bonding between Au(III) and 2-butyne invariably shows a dominant σ donation component, a smaller, but significant, π back-donation, and a remarkable polarization of the alkyne CC triple bond toward the metal fragment. A very large net electron charge transfer from CC triple bond to the metal fragment results, which turns out to be unexpectedly insensitive to the charge of the complex and more strictly related to the nature of the ancillary ligand. The combination of σ donation, π back-donation, and polarization effects is in fact modulated by the different ligand frameworks, with ligands bearing atoms different from carbon in trans position with respect to the alkyne emerging as especially interesting for both imparting Au(III)-alkyne bond stability and inducing a more effective alkyne activation. A first attempt to figure out a rationale on the bonding/reactivity relationship for Au(III)-alkyne is made by performing a comparative study in a model nucleophilic attack of water to the alkyne triple bond. Smaller π back-donation facilitates alkyne slippage in the transition states, which is energetically less demanding for Au(III) than for Au(I), and suggests a greater propensity of Au(III) to facilitate the nucleophilic attack.
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- Luca Gregori
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie , Università degli Studi di Perugia , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie , Università degli Studi di Perugia , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari del CNR (CNR-ISTM) , c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy.,Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2 , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie , Università degli Studi di Perugia , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy.,Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari del CNR (CNR-ISTM) , c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy.,Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2 , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie , Università degli Studi di Perugia , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy.,Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari del CNR (CNR-ISTM) , c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy.,Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2 , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy
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Nasaruddin RR, Yao Q, Chen T, Hülsey MJ, Yan N, Xie J. Hydride-induced ligand dynamic and structural transformation of gold nanoclusters during a catalytic reaction. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:23113-23121. [PMID: 30512030 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr07197g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Quasi-homogeneous ligand-protected gold nanoclusters (Au NCs) with atomic precision and well-defined structure offer great opportunity for exploring the catalytic nature of nanogold catalysts at a molecular level. Herein, using real-time electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), we have successfully identified the desorption and re-adsorption of p-mercaptobenzoic acid (p-MBA) ligands from Au25(p-MBA)18 NC catalysts during the hydrogenation of 4-nitrophenol in solution. This ligand dynamic (desorption and re-adsorption) would initiate structural transformation of Au25(p-MBA)18 NC catalysts during the reaction, forming a mixture of smaller Au NCs (Au23(p-MBA)16 as the major species) at the beginning of catalytic reaction, which could further be transformed into larger Au NCs (Au26(p-MBA)19 as the major species). The adsorption of hydrides (from NaBH4) is identified as the determining factor that could induce the ligand dynamic and structural transformation of NC catalysts. This study provides fundamental insights into the catalytic nature of Au NCs, including catalytic mechanism, active species and stability of Au NC catalysts during a catalytic reaction.
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- Ricca Rahman Nasaruddin
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore 117585, Singapore.
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Chen J, Nielsen RJ, Goddard WA, McKeown BA, Dickie DA, Gunnoe TB. Catalytic Synthesis of Superlinear Alkenyl Arenes Using a Rh(I) Catalyst Supported by a “Capping Arene” Ligand: Access to Aerobic Catalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:17007-17018. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b07728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Junqi Chen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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Knecht S, Jensen HJA, Saue T. Relativistic quantum chemical calculations show that the uranium molecule U2 has a quadruple bond. Nat Chem 2018; 11:40-44. [DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0158-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Sorbelli D, Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Belanzoni P. Ligand Effect on Bonding in Gold(III) Carbonyl Complexes. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:6161-6175. [PMID: 29741374 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We quantitatively assess the Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson (DCD) components of the Au(III)-CO bond and the charge density polarization at the CO, in a series of neutral, cationic, and dicationic bis- and monocyclometalated gold(III) complexes via charge-displacement (CD) analysis. A striking feature concerns the very small net electron charge flux from CO to the metal fragment which is unexpectedly stable toward both the charge of the complex and the oxidation state of gold (I, III). All systems exhibit a similar trend for the σ charge rearrangement in the region of the carbonyl bond, where, by contrast, the π back-donation trend variation is large, which is strictly correlated to the change in CO bond distance and the shift in CO stretching frequencies, in close analogy with the gold(I) carbonyl complexes. In the whole series of gold(III) compounds, a large Au(III) ← CO σ donation is measured (from 0.19 to 0.31 electrons), as well as a significant Au(III) → CO π back-donation (from -0.09 to -0.22 electrons), which however is not generally able to completely balance the polarization of the CO π electrons in the direction from oxygen to carbon (C ← O) induced by the presence of the metal fragment [LAu(III)]0/+1/+2. Surprisingly, all the gold(III) complexes in the series are characterized by a very small anisotropy in the Au(III) → CO in-plane and out-of-plane π back-donation components, in sharp contrast with the marked anisotropy found before for the experimentally characterized [(C^N^C)Au(III)CO]+ complex. A first attempt to figure out a rationale on the bonding/reactivity relationship for Au(III)-CO is made by performing a comparative study with an isostructural [(N^N^C)Pt(II)CO]+ complex in a model water-gas shift (WGS) reaction.
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- Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2 , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy
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- Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2 , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy
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- Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2 , via Elce di Sotto 8 , I-06123 Perugia , Italy
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Battaglia S, Keller S, Knecht S. Efficient Relativistic Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Implementation in a Matrix-Product Formulation. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:2353-2369. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Stefano Battaglia
- ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Takayanagi T, Nakatomi T. Automated reaction path searches for spin-forbidden reactions. J Comput Chem 2018; 39:1319-1326. [PMID: 29504140 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Revised: 02/02/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
Abstract
Many catalytic and biomolecular reactions containing transition metals involve changes in the electronic spin state. These processes are referred to as "spin-forbidden" reactions within nonrelativistic quantum mechanics framework. To understand detailed reaction mechanisms of spin-forbidden reactions, one must characterize reaction pathways on potential energy surfaces with different spin states and then identify crossing points. Here we propose a practical computational scheme, where only the lowest mixed-spin eigenstate obtained from the diagonalization of the spin-coupled Hamiltonian matrix is used in reaction path search calculations. We applied this method to the 6,4 FeO+ + H2 → 6,4 Fe+ + H2 O, 6,4 FeO+ + CH4 → 6,4 Fe+ + CH3 OH, and 7 Mn+ + OCS → 5 MnS+ + CO reactions, for which crossings between the different spin states are known to play essential roles in the overall reaction kinetics. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Toshiyuki Takayanagi
- Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-Ku, Saitama City, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-Ku, Saitama City, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan
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De Santis M, Rampino S, Quiney HM, Belpassi L, Storchi L. Charge-Displacement Analysis via Natural Orbitals for Chemical Valence in the Four-Component Relativistic Framework. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:1286-1296. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Matteo De Santis
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Molecular Imaging, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS)2, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università degli Studi ‘G. D’Annunzio’, Via dei Vestini 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy
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Yang B, Gagliardi L, Truhlar DG. Transition states of spin-forbidden reactions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:4129-4136. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07227a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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New approximation method for locating stationary points on lowest spin-coupled potential energy surface (PES) using density functional calculations.
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- Bo Yang
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Chemical Theory Center and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Chemical Theory Center and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Chemical Theory Center and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
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Gaggioli CA, Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Harvey JN, Belanzoni P. Spin-Forbidden Reactions: Adiabatic Transition States Using Spin-Orbit Coupled Density Functional Theory. Chemistry 2017; 24:5006-5015. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Carlo Alberto Gaggioli
- Department of Chemistry; Chemical Theory Center and Supercomputing Institute; University of Minnesota; 207 Pleasant Street SE 55455-0431 Minneapolis Minnesota USA
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- Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM)-; CNR; via Elce di Sotto 8 06123 Perugia Italy
- Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS); via Elce di Sotto 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM)-; CNR; via Elce di Sotto 8 06123 Perugia Italy
- Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS); via Elce di Sotto 8 06123 Perugia Italy
- Department of Chemistry; Biology and Biotechnology; University of Perugia; via Elce di Sotto 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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- Department of Chemistry; KU Leuven; Celestijnenlaan 200F B-3001 Heverlee Belgium
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- Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM)-; CNR; via Elce di Sotto 8 06123 Perugia Italy
- Consortium for Computational Molecular and Materials Sciences (CMS); via Elce di Sotto 8 06123 Perugia Italy
- Department of Chemistry; Biology and Biotechnology; University of Perugia; via Elce di Sotto 8 06123 Perugia Italy
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Xiao P, Wu D, Fang WH, Cui G. Mechanistic insights into the light-driven hydrogen evolution reaction from formic acid mediated by an iridium photocatalyst. Catal Sci Technol 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cy00785j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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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Electronic structure calculations shed important mechanistic light on light-driven hydrogen evolution from formic acid mediated by an iridium photocatalyst.
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- Pin Xiao
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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Gaggioli CA, Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Belanzoni P. The gold(iii)–CO bond: a missing piece in the gold carbonyl complex landscape. Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:1603-1606. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cc09879g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Surprisingly, charge-displacement (CD) analysis reveals a significant π back-donation in the gold(iii)–CO bond.
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- Carlo Alberto Gaggioli
- Dipartimento di Chimica
- Biologia e Biotecnologie
- Universita' degli Studi di Perugia
- Perugia
- Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari del CNR (CNR-ISTM)
- c/o Dipartimento di Chimica
- Biologia e Biotecnologie
- Universita' degli Studi di Perugia
- Perugia
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- Dipartimento di Chimica
- Biologia e Biotecnologie
- Universita' degli Studi di Perugia
- Perugia
- Italy
| | - Paola Belanzoni
- Dipartimento di Chimica
- Biologia e Biotecnologie
- Universita' degli Studi di Perugia
- Perugia
- Italy
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Gaggioli CA, Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Harvey JN, Belanzoni P. The ligand effect on the oxidative addition of dioxygen to gold(i)–hydride complexes. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:11679-11690. [DOI: 10.1039/c7dt02170d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The activation energy barriers of the O2 to [LAuH] oxidative addition, calculated by including spin–orbit coupling (SOC) effects, quantitatively correlate with the σ donation component of the L–AuH bond.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carlo Alberto Gaggioli
- Department of Chemistry
- Chemical Theory Center and Supercomputing Institute
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
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- Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM) – CNR
- 06123 Perugia
- Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM) – CNR
- 06123 Perugia
- Italy
- Department of Chemistry
- Biology and Biotechnology
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- Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM) – CNR
- 06123 Perugia
- Italy
- Department of Chemistry
- Biology and Biotechnology
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