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Shaheen Shah S, Oladepo S, Ali Ehsan M, Iali W, Alenaizan A, Nahid Siddiqui M, Oyama M, Al-Betar AR, Aziz MA. Recent Progress in Polyaniline and its Composites for Supercapacitors. CHEM REC 2024; 24:e202300105. [PMID: 37222655 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202300105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
Polyaniline (PANI) has piqued the interest of nanotechnology researchers due to its potential as an electrode material for supercapacitors. Despite its ease of synthesis and ability to be doped with a wide range of materials, PANI's poor mechanical properties have limited its use in practical applications. To address this issue, researchers investigated using PANI composites with materials with highly specific surface areas, active sites, porous architectures, and high conductivity. The resulting composite materials have improved energy storage performance, making them promising electrode materials for supercapacitors. Here, we provide an overview of recent developments in PANI-based supercapacitors, focusing on using electrochemically active carbon and redox-active materials as composites. We discuss challenges and opportunities of synthesizing PANI-based composites for supercapacitor applications. Furthermore, we provide theoretical insights into the electrical properties of PANI composites and their potential as active electrode materials. The need for this review stems from the growing interest in PANI-based composites to improve supercapacitor performance. By examining recent progress in this field, we provide a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art and potential of PANI-based composites for supercapacitor applications. This review adds value by highlighting challenges and opportunities associated with synthesizing and utilizing PANI-based composites, thereby guiding future research directions.
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- Syed Shaheen Shah
- Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, 615-8520, Japan
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- Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen and Energy Storage (IRC-HES), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, KFUPM Box 5040, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, 615-8520, Japan
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- Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
- Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen and Energy Storage (IRC-HES), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, KFUPM Box 5040, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center for Hydrogen and Energy Storage (IRC-HES), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, KFUPM Box 5040, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
- K.A. CARE Energy Research & Innovation Center, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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Schuster GB, Hud NV, Alenaizan A. Structural and Thermodynamic Control of Supramolecular Polymers and DNA Assemblies with Cyanuric Acid: Influence of Substituents and Intermolecular Interactions. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:10758-10767. [PMID: 36502412 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c05934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Understanding the interactions and thermodynamic parameters that govern the structure and stability of supramolecular polymers is challenging because of their flexible nature and high sensitivity to weak intermolecular interactions. The application of both experimental and computational analyses reveals the role that substituents on cyanuric acid (Cy), and other nitrogen-containing heterocycles, play in the formation of novel helical supramolecular structures. In this report, we focus on how noncovalent interactions, including steric and stacking interactions, modulate the structural and physical properties of these assemblies. In-depth analyses and several examples of critical steric and electrostatic effects provide insight into the relationship between intermolecular interactions of Cy with nucleic acids and the structure and thermodynamic stability of the supramolecular polymers they form.
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- Gary B Schuster
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
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The self-assembly between DNA and small organic molecules can expand the structural space of and introduce novel functionalities to DNA nanomaterials. In particular, it was demonstrated that poly(adenosine) DNA self-assembles with cyanuric acid (CA) to form a triplex helical structure. Previous molecular dynamics simulations showed that the DNA-CA assemblies adopt a novel noncovalent helicene structure that has a continuous helical hydrogen bond network. This article explores why the assemblies adopt the helicene geometry instead of an alternative planar hexameric rosette geometry. Analysis of the hydrogen bonding and stacking interaction energies indicates that constraining the system to the hexameric rosette geometry strains the hydrogen bonds without significantly improving the interaction energy. Molecular dynamics simulations for the assemblies between adenosine nucleosides and CA confirm that the formation of helicene structure is primarily driven by base-pair interactions and not because of the DNA backbone.
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- Asem Alenaizan
- Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran31261, Saudi Arabia
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Alenaizan A. Structural Analysis of the Poly(thymidine)-Melamine Assembly. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:6948-6954. [PMID: 36027577 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c04665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hydrogen bonding between the DNA nucleobases and small organic molecules, such as melamine, is a new strategy for the design of novel DNA materials. Poly(thymidine) DNA and melamine self-assemble into a duplex structure containing two antiparallel DNA strands hydrogen bonded to central melamine units. In this Article, molecular dynamics simulations rationalize the observed antiparallel duplex structure. Alternative duplex and triplex structures with parallel and antiparallel strand orientations are shown to be unstable because of the increase in unfavorable interactions between the DNA backbones.
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- Asem Alenaizan
- Chemistry Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia 31261
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Lachance-Brais C, Hennecker CD, Alenaizan A, Luo X, Toader V, Taing M, Sherrill CD, Mittermaier AK, Sleiman HF. Tuning DNA Supramolecular Polymers by the Addition of Small, Functionalized Nucleobase Mimics. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:19824-19833. [PMID: 34783562 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c08972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Nucleobase mimicking small molecules able to reconfigure DNA are a recently discovered strategy that promises to extend the structural and functional diversity of nucleic acids. However, only simple, unfunctionalized molecules such as cyanuric acid and melamine have so far been used in this approach. In this work, we show that the addition of substituted cyanuric acid molecules can successfully program polyadenine strands to assemble into supramolecular fibers. Unlike conventional DNA nanostructure functionalization, which typically end-labels DNA strands, our approach incorporates functional groups into DNA with high density using small molecules and results in new DNA triple helices coated with alkylamine or alcohol units that grow into micrometer-long fibers. We find that small changes in the small molecule functional group can result in large structural and energetic variation in the overall assembly. A combination of circular dichroism, atomic force microscopy, molecular dynamics simulations, and a new thermodynamic method, transient equilibrium mapping, elucidated the molecular factors behind these large changes. In particular, we identify substantial DNA sugar and phosphate group deformations to accommodate a hydrogen bond between the phosphate and the small-molecule functional groups, as well as a critical chain length of the functional group which switches this interaction from intra- to interfiber. These parameters allow the controlled formation of hierarchical, hybrid DNA assemblies simply through the addition and variation of small, functionalized molecules.
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, QC H3A0B8, Canada
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, QC H3A0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, QC H3A0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, QC H3A0B8, Canada
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, QC H3A0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, QC H3A0B8, Canada
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Smith DGA, Lolinco AT, Glick ZL, Lee J, Alenaizan A, Barnes TA, Borca CH, Di Remigio R, Dotson DL, Ehlert S, Heide AG, Herbst MF, Hermann J, Hicks CB, Horton JT, Hurtado AG, Kraus P, Kruse H, Lee SJR, Misiewicz JP, Naden LN, Ramezanghorbani F, Scheurer M, Schriber JB, Simmonett AC, Steinmetzer J, Wagner JR, Ward L, Welborn M, Altarawy D, Anwar J, Chodera JD, Dreuw A, Kulik HJ, Liu F, Martínez TJ, Matthews DA, Schaefer HF, Šponer J, Turney JM, Wang LP, De Silva N, King RA, Stanton JF, Gordon MS, Windus TL, Sherrill CD, Burns LA. Quantum Chemistry Common Driver and Databases (QCDB) and Quantum Chemistry Engine (QCEngine): Automation and interoperability among computational chemistry programs. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:204801. [PMID: 34852489 DOI: 10.1063/5.0059356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Community efforts in the computational molecular sciences (CMS) are evolving toward modular, open, and interoperable interfaces that work with existing community codes to provide more functionality and composability than could be achieved with a single program. The Quantum Chemistry Common Driver and Databases (QCDB) project provides such capability through an application programming interface (API) that facilitates interoperability across multiple quantum chemistry software packages. In tandem with the Molecular Sciences Software Institute and their Quantum Chemistry Archive ecosystem, the unique functionalities of several CMS programs are integrated, including CFOUR, GAMESS, NWChem, OpenMM, Psi4, Qcore, TeraChem, and Turbomole, to provide common computational functions, i.e., energy, gradient, and Hessian computations as well as molecular properties such as atomic charges and vibrational frequency analysis. Both standard users and power users benefit from adopting these APIs as they lower the language barrier of input styles and enable a standard layout of variables and data. These designs allow end-to-end interoperable programming of complex computations and provide best practices options by default.
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- Daniel G A Smith
- Molecular Sciences Software Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Molecular Sciences Software Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Open Force Field Initiative, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Bonn, Beringstraße 4, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Applied and Computational Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University, Schinkelstr. 2, 52062 Aachen, Germany
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- FU Berlin, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5250, USA
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- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth 6845, WA, Australia
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Molecular Sciences Software Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Open Force Field Initiative, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Molecular Sciences Software Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
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- Molecular Sciences Software Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- The Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112, USA
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- Quantum Theory Project, The University of Florida, 2328 New Physics Building, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8435, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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Alenaizan A, Borca CH, Karunakaran SC, Kendall AK, Stubbs G, Schuster GB, Sherrill CD, Hud NV. X-ray Fiber Diffraction and Computational Analyses of Stacked Hexads in Supramolecular Polymers: Insight into Self-Assembly in Water by Prospective Prebiotic Nucleobases. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:6079-6094. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c12010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Asem Alenaizan
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
- NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
- NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
- NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
- School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0765, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
- NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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Alenaizan A, Fauché K, Krishnamurthy R, Sherrill CD. Noncovalent Helicene Structure between Nucleic Acids and Cyanuric Acid. Chemistry 2021; 27:4043-4052. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202004390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Asem Alenaizan
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0400 USA
- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0400 USA
- NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution Atlanta GA 30332 USA
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- NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution Atlanta GA 30332 USA
- Department of Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla CA 92037 USA
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- NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution Atlanta GA 30332 USA
- Department of Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla CA 92037 USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0400 USA
- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0400 USA
- NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution Atlanta GA 30332 USA
- School of Computational Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0765 USA
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Alenaizan A, Barnett JL, Hud NV, Sherrill CD, Petrov AS. The proto-Nucleic Acid Builder: a software tool for constructing nucleic acid analogs. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:79-89. [PMID: 33300028 PMCID: PMC7797056 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The helical structures of DNA and RNA were originally revealed by experimental data. Likewise, the development of programs for modeling these natural polymers was guided by known structures. These nucleic acid polymers represent only two members of a potentially vast class of polymers with similar structural features, but that differ from DNA and RNA in the backbone or nucleobases. Xeno nucleic acids (XNAs) incorporate alternative backbones that affect the conformational, chemical, and thermodynamic properties of XNAs. Given the vast chemical space of possible XNAs, computational modeling of alternative nucleic acids can accelerate the search for plausible nucleic acid analogs and guide their rational design. Additionally, a tool for the modeling of nucleic acids could help reveal what nucleic acid polymers may have existed before RNA in the early evolution of life. To aid the development of novel XNA polymers and the search for possible pre-RNA candidates, this article presents the proto-Nucleic Acid Builder (https://github.com/GT-NucleicAcids/pnab), an open-source program for modeling nucleic acid analogs with alternative backbones and nucleobases. The torsion-driven conformation search procedure implemented here predicts structures with good accuracy compared to experimental structures, and correctly demonstrates the correlation between the helical structure and the backbone conformation in DNA and RNA.
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- Asem Alenaizan
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA.,Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0430, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA.,Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA.,School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0765, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA
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Smith DGA, Burns LA, Simmonett AC, Parrish RM, Schieber MC, Galvelis R, Kraus P, Kruse H, Di Remigio R, Alenaizan A, James AM, Lehtola S, Misiewicz JP, Scheurer M, Shaw RA, Schriber JB, Xie Y, Glick ZL, Sirianni DA, O’Brien JS, Waldrop JM, Kumar A, Hohenstein EG, Pritchard BP, Brooks BR, Schaefer HF, Sokolov AY, Patkowski K, DePrince AE, Bozkaya U, King RA, Evangelista FA, Turney JM, Crawford TD, Sherrill CD. Psi4 1.4: Open-source software for high-throughput quantum chemistry. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:184108. [PMID: 32414239 PMCID: PMC7228781 DOI: 10.1063/5.0006002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 75.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
PSI4 is a free and open-source ab initio electronic structure program providing implementations of Hartree-Fock, density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory, configuration interaction, density cumulant theory, symmetry-adapted perturbation theory, and coupled-cluster theory. Most of the methods are quite efficient, thanks to density fitting and multi-core parallelism. The program is a hybrid of C++ and Python, and calculations may be run with very simple text files or using the Python API, facilitating post-processing and complex workflows; method developers also have access to most of PSI4's core functionalities via Python. Job specification may be passed using The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) QCSCHEMA data format, facilitating interoperability. A rewrite of our top-level computation driver, and concomitant adoption of the MolSSI QCARCHIVE INFRASTRUCTURE project, makes the latest version of PSI4 well suited to distributed computation of large numbers of independent tasks. The project has fostered the development of independent software components that may be reused in other quantum chemistry programs.
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- National Institutes of Health – National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute, Laboratory of Computational Biology, Bethesda,
Maryland 20892, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin
University, Kent St., Bentley, Perth, Western Australia 6102,
Australia
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of
Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65 Brno, Czech
Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, Centre for Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037
Tromsø, Norway
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of
Helsinki, P.O. Box 55 (A. I. Virtasen aukio 1), FI-00014 Helsinki,
Finland
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry,
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific
Computing, Heidelberg University, D-69120 Heidelberg,
Germany
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science,
School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000,
Australia
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn
University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford
PULSE Institute, Menlo Park, California 94025,
USA
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- National Institutes of Health – National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute, Laboratory of Computational Biology, Bethesda,
Maryland 20892, USA
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry,
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn
University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4390,
USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe
University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Bethel
University, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112, USA
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry,
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and
Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400,
USA
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Sirianni DA, Alenaizan A, Cheney DL, Sherrill CD. Assessment of Density Functional Methods for Geometry Optimization of Bimolecular van der Waals Complexes. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:3004-3013. [PMID: 29763302 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
We explore the suitability of three popular density functionals (B97-D3, B3LYP-D3, M05-2X) for producing accurate equilibrium geometries of van der Waals (vdW) complexes with diverse binding motifs. For these functionals, optimizations using Dunning's aug-cc-pVDZ basis set best combine accuracy and a reasonable computational expense. Each DFT/aug-cc-pVDZ combination produces optimized equilibrium geometries for 21 small vdW complexes of organic molecules (up to four non-hydrogen atoms total) that agree with high-level CCSD(T)/CBS reference geometries to within ±0.1 Å for the averages of the center-of-mass displacement and the mean least root-mean-squared displacement. The DFT/aug-cc-pVDZ combinations are also able to reproduce the optimal center-of-mass displacements interpolated from CCSD(T)/CBS radial potential energy surfaces in both NBC7x and HBC6 test sets to within ±0.1 Å. We therefore conclude that each of these denisty functional methods, together with the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set, is suitable for producing equilibrium geometries of generic nonbonded complexes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dominic A Sirianni
- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , Georgia 30332-0400 , United States
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , Georgia 30332-0400 , United States
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- Molecular Structure and Design , Bristol-Myers Squibb Company , P.O. Box 5400, Princeton , New Jersey 08543 , United States
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Computational Science and Engineering , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , Georgia 30332-0400 , United States
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Smith DGA, Burns LA, Sirianni DA, Nascimento DR, Kumar A, James AM, Schriber JB, Zhang T, Zhang B, Abbott AS, Berquist EJ, Lechner MH, Cunha LA, Heide AG, Waldrop JM, Takeshita TY, Alenaizan A, Neuhauser D, King RA, Simmonett AC, Turney JM, Schaefer HF, Evangelista FA, DePrince AE, Crawford TD, Patkowski K, Sherrill CD. Psi4NumPy: An Interactive Quantum Chemistry Programming Environment for Reference Implementations and Rapid Development. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:3504-3511. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Daniel G. A. Smith
- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4390, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany
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- The Technical Institute of Aeronautics, São José dos Campos, 12228-900, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112, United States
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- National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Laboratory of Computational Biology, 5635 Fishers Lane, T-900 Suite, Rockville, Maryland 20852, United States
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4390, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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Alenaizan A, Al-Basheer W, Musa MM. Solvent, temperature and concentration effects on the optical rotatory dispersion of (R)-3-methylcyclohexanone. J Mol Struct 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2016.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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