Descriptors for Cyclooctasulfur: Estimation of Water−Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities in Solvents, and Physicochemical Properties (open access)

Descriptors for Cyclooctasulfur: Estimation of Water−Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities in Solvents, and Physicochemical Properties

This article uses literature data on the solubility of cyclooctasulfur in a number of solvents to drive Abraham descriptors for cyclooctasulfur.
Date: May 21, 2018
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Descriptors for Pentane-2,4-dione and Its Derivatives (open access)

Descriptors for Pentane-2,4-dione and Its Derivatives

This article uses equations for partition coefficients of compounds from water and the gas phase to various solvents to obtain descriptors for pentane-2,4-dione and 21 of its derivatives.
Date: August 19, 2017
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Limiting Diffusion Coefficients for Ions and Nonelectrolytes in Solvents Water, Methanol, Ethanol, Propan-1-ol, Butan-1-ol, Octan-1-ol, Propanone and Acetonitrile at 298 K, Analyzed Using Abraham Descriptors (open access)

Limiting Diffusion Coefficients for Ions and Nonelectrolytes in Solvents Water, Methanol, Ethanol, Propan-1-ol, Butan-1-ol, Octan-1-ol, Propanone and Acetonitrile at 298 K, Analyzed Using Abraham Descriptors

Article describes study demonstrating that solute hydrogen bond acidity, solute hydrogen bond basicity and solute volume all lower the diffusion constants of ions and nonelectrolytes in the various solvents studied.
Date: May 21, 2019
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solvation Descriptors for Zwitterionic α-Aminoacids; Estimation of Water–Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities, and Hydrogen-Bond Acidity and Hydrogen-Bond Basicity (open access)

Solvation Descriptors for Zwitterionic α-Aminoacids; Estimation of Water–Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities, and Hydrogen-Bond Acidity and Hydrogen-Bond Basicity

This article uses the literature data on solubilities and water–solvent partition coefficients to obtain properties or “Absolv descriptors” for zwitterionic α-aminoacids: glycine, α-alanine (α-aminopropanoic acid), α-aminobutanoic acid, norvaline (α-aminopentanoic acid), norleucine (α-aminohexanoic acid), valine (α-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid), leucine (α-amino-4-methylpentanoic acid), and α-phenylalanine.
Date: February 8, 2019
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Partition of Neutral Molecules and Ions from Water to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether and of Neutral Molecules from the Gas Phase to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether (open access)

Partition of Neutral Molecules and Ions from Water to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether and of Neutral Molecules from the Gas Phase to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether

This article sets out an equation for partition of 87 neutral molecules from water to o-nitrophenyl octyl ether, NPOE, an equation for partition of the 87 neutral molecules and 21 ionic species from water to NPOE, and an equation for partition of 87 neutral molecules from the gas phase to NPOE.
Date: February 16, 2018
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.); Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Liu, Xiangli
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of molar refractions and Abraham descriptors for tris(acetylacetonato)chromium(iii), tris(acetylacetonato)iron(iii) and tris(acetylacetonato)cobalt(iii) (open access)

Determination of molar refractions and Abraham descriptors for tris(acetylacetonato)chromium(iii), tris(acetylacetonato)iron(iii) and tris(acetylacetonato)cobalt(iii)

Article describes study in which researchers determined molar refractions of tris(acetylacetonato)chromium(III), tris(acetylacetonato)iron(III) and tris(acetylacetonato)cobalt(III).
Date: October 23, 2017
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.); Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Fucaloro, Anthony F. & Zanella, Andrew W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commentary on “Experimental Measurements and Equilibrium Study of Functional D-Sorbitol in Good and Anti-Solvent Binary Mixtures” (open access)

Commentary on “Experimental Measurements and Equilibrium Study of Functional D-Sorbitol in Good and Anti-Solvent Binary Mixtures”

This article provides a commentary on the published equation coefficients for mathematically describing the solubility behavior of D-sorbitol in binary acetonitrile + ethanol solvent mixtures using the modified Apelblat, Combined Nearly Ideal Binary Solvent/Redlich-Kister (CNIBS/R-K) and Jouyban-Acree models.
Date: June 17, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commentary on “Extended Hildebrand Approach: An Empirical Model for Solubility Prediction of Etodolac in 1,4-Dioxane and Water Mixtures” (open access)

Commentary on “Extended Hildebrand Approach: An Empirical Model for Solubility Prediction of Etodolac in 1,4-Dioxane and Water Mixtures”

This article provides a commentary on mathematical errors concerning the incorrect conversion of mass fraction to volume fraction concentrations of 1,4-dioxane, the incorrect conversion of mole fraction solubilities to molar solubilities of Etodolac, and the incorrect calculation of the ideal mole fraction solubility of Etodolac.
Date: November 6, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commentary on “Studies on Molar Volume, Dielectric Properties and Refractive Indices of Cyanex 923 + Benzene/Xylene at 300 K” (open access)

Commentary on “Studies on Molar Volume, Dielectric Properties and Refractive Indices of Cyanex 923 + Benzene/Xylene at 300 K”

This article provides a commentary on Redlich-Kister equation coefficients for binary benzene + cyanex 923 and xylene + cyanex 923.
Date: June 21, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commentary on “Uncover the Effect of Solvent and Temperature on Solid-Liquid Equilibrium Behavior of L-Norvaline” (open access)

Commentary on “Uncover the Effect of Solvent and Temperature on Solid-Liquid Equilibrium Behavior of L-Norvaline”

This article provides a commentary on several sets of reported curve-fit parameters for the Modified Apelblat model that do not correctly back-calculate the observed solubility behavior of L-norvaline in the binary aqueous-alcohol solvent mixtures.
Date: September 18, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments Concerning “Measurement of the Solubility of the Salt of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole With Cyclohexylamine and Tert-Butylamine in Various Solvents at Low Temperatures: Models and Thermodynamic Parameters” (open access)

Comments Concerning “Measurement of the Solubility of the Salt of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole With Cyclohexylamine and Tert-Butylamine in Various Solvents at Low Temperatures: Models and Thermodynamic Parameters”

This article identifies several errors in the published paper by Wongkaew and coworkers [Fluid Phase Equilibria 434 (2017) 141-151].
Date: February 15, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments Concerning “Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Properties of 1,6-Bis[3-(3,5-Di-Tert-Butyl-4-Hydroxyphenyl) Propionamido]Hexane in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvent Mixtures” (open access)

Comments Concerning “Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Properties of 1,6-Bis[3-(3,5-Di-Tert-Butyl-4-Hydroxyphenyl) Propionamido]Hexane in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvent Mixtures”

This article comments on mathematical errors pertaining to published equation coefficients for the modified Apelblat and for the polynomial equation based on the Combined Jouyban-Acree and modified Apelblat models.
Date: February 16, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents" (open access)

Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents"

Abstract: Errors are found in the mathematical correlation based on the combined Jouyban-Acree and Modified Apelblat model for describing the variation in the mole fraction solubility of cefpiramide with temperature and solvent composition for the binary aqueous-ethanol solvent system. The equation coefficents given by Tang and coworkers, when substituted into the model equation, do not yield the authors' calculated mole fraction solubilities of cefpiramide.
Date: January 24, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on “Thermodynamic modeling studies of aqueous solubility of caffeine, gallic acid and their cocrystal in the temperature range of 303 Ke363 K” (open access)

Comments on “Thermodynamic modeling studies of aqueous solubility of caffeine, gallic acid and their cocrystal in the temperature range of 303 Ke363 K”

This article comments on activity coefficients based on a thermodynamic relationship that failed to properly take into account the solid phase transition that both caffeine and gallic acid exhibited prior to melting.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on “What if Cocrystallization Fails for Neutral Molecules? Screening Offered Eutectics as Alternate Pharmaceutical Materials: Leflunomide-A Case Study” (open access)

Comments on “What if Cocrystallization Fails for Neutral Molecules? Screening Offered Eutectics as Alternate Pharmaceutical Materials: Leflunomide-A Case Study”

Features commentary on the previously published article "What if Cocrystallization Fails for Neutral Molecules? Screening Offered Eutectics as Alternate Pharmaceutical Materials: Leflunomide-A Case Study”
Date: December 2019
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Jouyban, Abolghasem
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Commentary on "Correlation of solubility of hexamethylene-1,6-bisthiosulphate disodium salt dihydrate versus dielectric constants of water + ethanol mixtures"

This article discusses the finding that Apelblat model equation coefficients are found to give calculated mole fractions that exceed unity for the solubility of hexamethylene-1,6-bisthiosulphate disodium salt dihydrate dissolved in binary aqueous-ethanol solvent mixtures.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Yang, Chunhui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized molecular solvation in non-aqueous solutions by a single parameter implicit solvation scheme (open access)

Generalized molecular solvation in non-aqueous solutions by a single parameter implicit solvation scheme

Article presenting a systematic parametrization protocol for the Self-Consistent Continuum Solvation (SCCS) model resulting in optimized parameters for 67 non-aqueous solvents. The parametrization is based on a collection of ≈6000 experimentally measured partition coefficients, which were collected in the Solv@TUM database presented here. The accuracy of the optimized SCCS model is comparable to the well-known universal continuum solvation model (SMx) family of methods, while relying on only a single fit parameter and thereby largely reducing statistical noise.
Date: August 3, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Hille, Christoph; Ringe, Stefan; Deimel, Martin; Kunkel, Christian; Reuter, Karsten et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward a More Rational Design of the Direct Synthesis of Aniline: A Density Functional Theory Study (open access)

Toward a More Rational Design of the Direct Synthesis of Aniline: A Density Functional Theory Study

This article uses plane-wave density functional theory calculations to investigate the direct amination of benzene catalyzed by a Ni(111) surface to explore the reaction intermediates and to understand the role of nickel in this reaction.
Date: March 24, 2017
Creator: Alsunaidi, Zainab H. A.; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964- & Wilson, Angela K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Reliability and Failure Prevention in Automobile Microelectronics captions transcript

Improving Reliability and Failure Prevention in Automobile Microelectronics

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Muthappan Asokan presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Asokan, Muthappan
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rate Coefficient Measurements and Theoretical Analysis of the OH + (E)‑CF₃CH==CHCF₃ Reaction (open access)

Rate Coefficient Measurements and Theoretical Analysis of the OH + (E)‑CF₃CH==CHCF₃ Reaction

Rate coefficients, k, for the gas-phase reaction of the OH radical with (E)CF3CHCHCF3 ((E)-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene, HFO-1336mzz(E)) were measured over a range of temperatures (211−374 K) and bath gas pressures (20−300 Torr; He, N2) using a pulsed laser photolysis−laser-induced fluorescence (PLP−LIF) technique. k1(T) was independent of pressure over this range of conditions with k1(296 K) = (1.31 ± 0.15) × 10−13 cm3 molecule−1 s−1 and k1(T) = (6.94 ± 0.80) × 10−13exp[−(496 ± 10)/T] cm 3 molecule−1 s−1, where the uncertainties are 2σ, and the pre-exponential term includes estimated systematic error. Rate coefficients for the OD reaction were also determined over a range of temperatures (262−374 K) at 100 Torr (He). The OD rate coefficients were ∼15% greater than the OH values and showed similar temperature dependent behavior with k2(T) = (7.52 ± 0.44) × 10−13exp[−(476 ± 20)/T] and k2(296 K) = (1.53 ± 0.15) × 10−13 cm3 molecule−1 s−1. The rate coefficients for reaction 1 were also measured using a relative rate technique between 296 and 375 K with k1(296 K) measured to be (1.22 ± 0.1) × 10−13 cm3 molecule−1 s−1, in agreement with the PLP−LIF results. In addition, the 296 K rate coefficient for the O3 +( E)CF3CHCHCF3 reaction …
Date: March 22, 2018
Creator: Baasandorj, Munkhbayar; Marshall, Paul; Waterland, Robert L.; Ravishankara, A. R. & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revisiting surface core-level shifts for ionic compounds (open access)

Revisiting surface core-level shifts for ionic compounds

Article establishing a theoretical method which is able to relate the binding energy shifts to the electronic structure of a material. In order to establish such a methodology, the CaO(100) surface to bulk core-level binding energy shifts are studied with Hartree-Fock and density-functional theory methods using both cluster and periodic slab models.
Date: September 12, 2019
Creator: Bagus, Paul S.; Nelin, Connie J.; Zhao, Xunhua; Levchenko, Sergey V.; Davis, Earl; Weng, Xuefei et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
N-Doped graphene/C₆₀ covalent hybrid as a new material for energy harvesting applications (open access)

N-Doped graphene/C₆₀ covalent hybrid as a new material for energy harvesting applications

This article systematically investigates the degree of functionalization and the key structural features of the N-G/C₆₀ hybrid by a number of techniques including thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray photoelectron and Raman spectroscopies and transmission electron and atomic force microscopies.
Date: August 26, 2018
Creator: Barrejón, Myriam; Arellano, Luis M.; Gobeze, Habtom B.; Gómez-Escalonilla, María J.; Fierro, Jose Luis G.; D'Souza, Francis et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Promoting bioanalytical concepts in genetics: A TATA box molecularly imprinted polymer as a small isolated fragment of the DNA damage repairing system (open access)

Promoting bioanalytical concepts in genetics: A TATA box molecularly imprinted polymer as a small isolated fragment of the DNA damage repairing system

Article describes study which demonstrates that a new, stable, artificial TATA (T — thymine, A — adenine) box is recognized by amino acids recognizing the natural TATA box.
Date: February 13, 2019
Creator: Bartold, Katarzyna; Pietrzyk-Le, Agnieszka; Lisowski, Wojciech; Golebiewska, Karolina; Siklitskaya, Alexandra; Borowicz, Pawel et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental and Computational Preference for Phosphine Regioselectivity and Stereoselective Tripodal Rotation in Hos₃(Co)₈(PPh₃)₂(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS) (open access)

Experimental and Computational Preference for Phosphine Regioselectivity and Stereoselective Tripodal Rotation in Hos₃(Co)₈(PPh₃)₂(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS)

This article investigates the site preference for ligand substitution in the benzothiazolate-bridged cluster HOs₃(CO)₁₀(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS) using PPh₃.
Date: September 12, 2018
Creator: Begum, Shahin A.; Chowdhury, Md. Arshad H.; Ghosh, Shishir; Tocher, Derek A.; Richmond, Michael G.; Yang, Li et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library