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In this article, 20 ns molecular dynamic (MD) simulations and density functional theory (DFT) were used to investigate the absorption of CO2 molecules by some functionalized 1,8-diazabicyclo[5,4,0]-udec-7-ene (DBU)-based ILs. According to the MD results, the highest coordination number for NC is observed in the case of [DBUH+][Im-], which indicates that the functionalization of the imidazole anion by different alkyl groups decreases the interaction ability of the anion with CO2 molecules. The addition of water molecules to the ILs decreases the ability of the anion to interact with CO2 because of the hydrogen bond formation between the imidazole anions and water. Two different paths were proposed for CO2 absorption by the ILs, and the effect of alkyl groups on the kinetics and thermodynamics of the reaction was analyzed by using the M06-2X functional at the 6-311++G(d,p) level of theory in the gas phase and water. On the basis of the results, CO2 absorption is more favorable in [DBUH+][Im-], thermodynamically. Kinetic parameters show that the alkylation of the imidazole anion by ethyl, propyl, iso-propyl, and phenyl groups decreases the rate of CO2 absorption, because of the steric and electron-withdrawing effect of different alkyl groups. In the presence of water molecules, the lowest activation Gibbs energy is related to [DBUH+][Im-], which confirms the greater ability of this IL in CO2 absorption.This study focuses on the physico-geometrical constraints of the kinetics of the thermal decomposition of solids as exemplified by the thermal dehydration of α-oxalic acid dihydrate and the subsequent thermally induced sublimation/decomposition of the as-produced anhydride using the samples of crystalline particles (CPs) and a single crystal (SC) form. The CP and SC samples possess approximately similar geometrical figures with different sizes. The shapes of the original dihydrate and the as-produced anhydride from thermal dehydration are practically congruent. Therefore, proper evaluations of the current kinetic understanding of contracting geometry-type reactions were expected by the comparisons of the kinetic behaviors among different sample forms and thermally induced processes. selleck chemicals The kinetic analysis of the thermal dehydration process revealed that the consecutive physico-geometrical processes comprised of an induction period, a surface reaction, and a phase boundary-controlled reaction, where distinguishable differences in the rate behavior were observed between the CP and SC samples for the surface reaction. On the other hand, the thermally induced sublimation/decomposition of the anhydride was described as an ideal single-step geometry contraction process, for which the CP and SC samples exhibited the same rate variation behavior under isothermal conditions. However, the sublimation/decomposition processes of the CP and SC samples were characterized by the different Arrhenius parameters, in which the compensative changes in the apparent activation energy and preexponential factor were apparent. Implications for the kinetic modeling of the solid-state reactions and the interpretation of kinetic results were obtained from the results of the comparative kinetic study for different sample forms and thermally induced processes.We use polarization-resolved femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy to investigate the vibrations of hydrated protons in anionic (AOT) and cationic (CTAB/hexanol) reverse micelles in the frequency range 2000-3500 cm-1. For small AOT micelles the dominant proton hydration structure consists of H3O+ with two OH groups donating hydrogen bonds to water molecules, and one OH group donating a weaker hydrogen bond to sulfonate. For cationic reverse micelles, we find that the absorption at frequencies >2500 cm-1 is dominated by asymmetric proton-hydration structures in which one of the OH groups of H3O+ is more weakly hydrogen-bonded to water than the other two OH groups.Computational evidence is reported on a boron-based ternary Rb6Be2B6 cluster as the "Big Mac" sandwich on a subnanoscale with thickness of 0.58 nm. The core hexagonal B6 ring, occurring in the naked form due to double 6π/6σ aromaticity, is capped by two tetrahedral BeRb3 ligands. Such a B6 motif is scarce in boron clusters. The sandwich cluster has four-fold 2σ/6π/6σ/2σ aromaticity and its tetrahedral BeRb3 ligand is the simplest case of three-dimensional aromaticity (or spherical aromaticity). The sandwich can be formulated as a charge-transfer complex, [Rb3Be]3+[B6]6-[BeRb3]3+, whose components are held together by robust electrostatics, facilitating dual-mode dynamic fluxionality.A ruthenium(ii)-catalyzed selective hydrogenation of challenging primary amides and cyclic di-peptides to their corresponding primary alcohols and amino alcohols, respectively, is reported. The hydrogenation reaction operates under mild and eco-benign conditions and can be scaled-up.NMR shielding and spin-spin coupling constants of cis and trans isomers of FNNF have been determined to near-quantitative accuracy from ab initio calculations. The FNNF system, containing multiple N-F bonds and fluorine atoms, provides a severe test of computational methods. Coupled-cluster methods were used with large basis sets and complete basis set (CBS) extrapolations of the equilibrium geometry results, with vibrational and relativistic corrections. Shielding constants were calculated with basis sets as large as aug-cc-pCV7Z, together with coupled-cluster expansions up to CCSDT, at the all-electron CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pCVQZ optimized geometries. Spin-spin coupling constants have been determined with specialized versions of the correlation consistent basis sets ccJ-pVXZ, further augmented with diffuse functions. All-electron coupled-cluster methods up to CC3 were applied in these calculations. The results of this work highlight the application of state-of-the-art theoretical techniques, and provide the most accurate NMR properties of FNNF to date, which can serve to guide and supplement NMR experimentation.To understand the mechanisms and kinetics of catalytic reactions in heterogeneous catalysis, ab initio molecular dynamics is one of the powerful methods used to explore the free energy surface (FES) of surface elementary steps. The most significant aspect of performing such calculations is to choose the specific collective variable (CV) of the reaction. Here, we take CO oxidation on Pt(111) at 300 K as an example to demonstrate the protocol of selecting CVs guided by the free energy decomposition which quantifies individual bond free energy contributions. The basic concept is to conduct the brute-force molecular dynamics initiated from the transition state on the FES, which is refined from the one on the potential energy surface, to generate the reaction path at a finite temperature. The validity of this reaction path is further demonstrated by a 2-D free energy landscape spanned by the path-CV. By choosing CVs including other bond distances, we find that CO oxidation cannot be well understood by umbrella sampling or constrained molecular dynamics (CMD) solely along the OC-O bond distance.
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