Computational study of the gas-phase reactions of sulfuric acid with OH(ΠJ), O(3PJ), Cl(2P) and O(1D2) radicals (open access)

Computational study of the gas-phase reactions of sulfuric acid with OH(ΠJ), O(3PJ), Cl(2P) and O(1D2) radicals

This article is about how rate coefficients for reactions of H2SO4 with OH, O(3P) and Cl radicals over 160–298 K were estimated computationally. The authors propose kOH = 8.5 × 10-14 exp(-50 K/T), kO = 1.1 × 10-12 exp(-5012 K/T) and kCl = 3.1 × 10-9 exp(-3314 K/T) cm3 molecule-1 s−1.
Date: December 27, 2021
Creator: Marshall, Paul & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Henry’s law constants (IUPAC Recommendations 2021) (open access)

Henry’s law constants (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)

Article presenting a consistent set of recommendations to express the proportionality coefficient, “Henry’s law constant” of Henry's law.
Date: December 13, 2021
Creator: Sander, Rolf; Acree, William E. (William Eugene); De Visscher, Alex; Schwartz, Stephen E. & Wallington, Timothy J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision and Extension of a Generally Applicable Group-Additivity Method for the Calculation of the Standard Heat of Combustion and Formation of Organic Molecules (open access)

Revision and Extension of a Generally Applicable Group-Additivity Method for the Calculation of the Standard Heat of Combustion and Formation of Organic Molecules

Article presenting the calculation of the heats of combustion ΔH°c and formation ΔH°f of organic molecules at standard conditions using a commonly applicable computer algorithm based on the group-additivity method. This work is a continuation and extension of an earlier publication.
Date: October 10, 2021
Creator: Naef, Rudolf & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cysne et al. Reply (open access)

Cysne et al. Reply

This article is a response to a comment on the authors' original article "Disentangling Orbital and Valley Hall Effects in Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides." The authors' response concludes that they do not believe the main points of the original Letter are affected by the Comment.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Cysne, Tarik P.; Costa, Marcio; Canonico, Luis M.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Muniz, R. B. & Rappoport, Tatiana G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
New reactions of diazene and related species for modelling combustion of amine fuels (open access)

New reactions of diazene and related species for modelling combustion of amine fuels

Article discusses how potential energy surfaces for reactions involving N2H2 isomers of diazene (diimide) have been explored using density functional theory, with energies based on coupled-cluster theory. A focus is on processes that create or consume these species, and isomerization between the E (trans) and Z (cis) forms of HNNH. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: September 24, 2021
Creator: Marshall, Paul; Rawling, George R. & Glarborg, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Excited State Charge Separation in an Azobenzene-Bridged Perylenediimide Dimer – Effect of Photochemical Trans-Cis Isomerization (open access)

Excited State Charge Separation in an Azobenzene-Bridged Perylenediimide Dimer – Effect of Photochemical Trans-Cis Isomerization

Article demonstrating photoinduced charge transfer and separation events in a newly synthesized azobenzene-bridged perylenediimide-dimer (PDI-dimer). Results offer key insights on the role of the azobenzene bridge and the dimer geometry in governing the excited state charge transfer and separation in symmetrically linked PDI dimer.
Date: September 20, 2021
Creator: Zink-Lorre, Nathalie; Seetharaman, Sairaman; Gutiérrez-Moreno, David; Fernández-Lázaro, Fernando; Karr, Paul A. & D'Souza, Francis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced modeling of materials with PAOFLOW 2.0: New features and software design (open access)

Advanced modeling of materials with PAOFLOW 2.0: New features and software design

This article describes the recent re-design of the code and the new features and improvements in performance of PAOFLOW, a software tool that constructs tight-binding Hamiltonians from self-consistent electronic wavefunctions by projecting onto a set of atomic orbitals.
Date: September 2, 2021
Creator: Cesaroli, Frank T.; Supka, Andrew; Jayaraj, Anooja; Costa, Marcio; Siloi, Ilaria; Sławińska, Jagoda et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Neutral Red as a pH/pCO2 Luminescent Sensor for Biological Systems (open access)

Development of Neutral Red as a pH/pCO2 Luminescent Sensor for Biological Systems

This article demonstrates for the first time that Neutral Red (NR) can also serve as a CO2 sensor, because of NR’s unique optical properties, which change with dissolved carbon dioxide (dCO2) concentrations. In this article optical sensitivity of NR was quantified as a function of changes in absorption and emission spectra to dCO2 in a pH 7.3 buffer medium at eight dCO2 concentrations.
Date: August 5, 2021
Creator: Ericson, Megan N.; Shankar, Sindhu K.; Chahine, Laya M.; Omary, Mohammad A.; Hunt von Herbing, Ione & Marpu, Sreekar
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rational design of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers (open access)

Rational design of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers

This article is a review discussing the rational design and synthesis of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs), summarizes their advanced applications, and concludes with the authors' perspectives on the research prospects of these materials.
Date: July 22, 2021
Creator: Song, Yanpei; Lan, Pui Ching; Martin, Kyle & Ma, Shengqian
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selective Noncatalytic Reduction of NOx Using Ammonium Sulfate (open access)

Selective Noncatalytic Reduction of NOx Using Ammonium Sulfate

Article discusses how ammonium sulfate (AS) is of interest as an additive in stationary combustion plants for the simultaneous control of NOx (through selective noncatalytic reduction, SNCR) and deposition and corrosion (through sulfation of alkali chlorides). The results indicated that sulfur from ammonium sulfate is mainly released as SO3, even though SO2 is detected in increasing concentrations at temperatures above 1000 °C. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: July 15, 2021
Creator: Krum, Kristian R. K.; Jensen, Martin; Li, Songgeng; Norman, Thomas; Marshall, Paul; Wu, Hao et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-Assembly-Directed Organization of a Fullerene–Bisporphyrin into Supramolecular Giant Donut Structures for Excited-State Charge Stabilization (open access)

Self-Assembly-Directed Organization of a Fullerene–Bisporphyrin into Supramolecular Giant Donut Structures for Excited-State Charge Stabilization

This article creates a well-defined architecture for functional materials composed of spontaneously self-assembled electron donor and acceptor entities capable of generating long-lived charge-separated states upon photoillumination and reports the synthesis of a new fullerene–bis-Zn-porphyrin e-bisadduct by tether-directed functionalization of C60 via a multistep synthetic protocol.
Date: July 14, 2021
Creator: Caballero, Rubén; Barrejón, Myriam; Cerdá, Jesús; Aragó, Juan; Seetharaman, Sairaman; de la Cruz, Pilar et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solubility, Correlation, Dissolution Thermodynamics and Preferential Solvation of Meloxicam in Aqueous Mixtures of 2-Propanol (open access)

Solubility, Correlation, Dissolution Thermodynamics and Preferential Solvation of Meloxicam in Aqueous Mixtures of 2-Propanol

Article studying solid-liquid equilibrium of meloxicam in {2-propanol + water} mixtures at several temperatures as a contribution to preformulation studies of homogeneous liquid pharmaceutical dosage forms based on this drug.
Date: May 18, 2021
Creator: Tinjacá, Darío; Martínez, Fleming; Almanza, Ovidio A.; Jouyban, Abolghasem & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reference materials for phase equilibrium studies. 1. Liquid–liquid equilibria (IUPAC Technical Report) (open access)

Reference materials for phase equilibrium studies. 1. Liquid–liquid equilibria (IUPAC Technical Report)

This article is the first of three projected IUPAC Technical Reports resulting from IUPAC Project 2011-037-2-100 (Reference Materials for Phase Equilibrium Studies). This report proposes seven systems for liquid–liquid equilibrium studies, covering the four most common categories of binary mixtures: aqueous systems of moderate solubility, non-aqueous systems, systems with low solubility, and systems with ionic liquids.
Date: July 8, 2021
Creator: Bazyleva, Ala; Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Chirico, Robert D.; Diky, Vladimir; Hefter, Glenn T.; Jacquemin, Johan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Early Oxidative Transformations During the Biosynthesis of Terrein and Related Natural Products (open access)

Early Oxidative Transformations During the Biosynthesis of Terrein and Related Natural Products

This article combines heterologous expression and in vitro studies to show that the flavin-dependent monooxygenase (FMO) TerC catalyzes the initial oxidative decarboxylation of 6-HM. The results demonstrate that the biosynthetic pathways of terrein and related(polychlorinated) congeners diverge after oxidative decarboxylation of the lactone precursor that is catalyzed by a conserved FMO and further indicate that early dehydration of the side chain is an essential step.
Date: June 11, 2021
Creator: Kahlert, Lukas; Bernardi, Darlon; Hauser, Maurice; Lóca, Laura P.; Berlinck, Roberto G. S.; Skellam, Elizabeth et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-reporting molecularly imprinted polymer with the covalently immobilized ferrocene redox probe for selective electrochemical sensing of p-synephrine (open access)

Self-reporting molecularly imprinted polymer with the covalently immobilized ferrocene redox probe for selective electrochemical sensing of p-synephrine

Article simultaneously imprinting the p-synephrine 1 template and covalently immobilizing a a ferrocene redox probe in a (bis-bithiophene)-based polymer. The resulting molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) was deposited on the Pt electrode as a thin film to form a redox self-reporting MIP film-based chemosensor.
Date: June 10, 2021
Creator: Lach, Patrycja; Cieplak, Maciej; Noworyta, Krzysztof R.; Pieta, Piotr; Lisowski, Wojciech; Kalecki, Jakub et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-reporting molecularly imprinted polymer with the covalently immobilized ferrocene redox probe for selective electrochemical sensing of p-synephrine (open access)

Self-reporting molecularly imprinted polymer with the covalently immobilized ferrocene redox probe for selective electrochemical sensing of p-synephrine

This article uses a molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) to form a redox self-reporting MIP film-based chemosensor applied for p-synephrine determination.
Date: June 10, 2021
Creator: Lach, Patrycja; Cieplak, Maciej; Noworyta, K.; Pieta, Piotr; Lisowski, Wojciech; Kalecki, Jakub et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biosynthesis of 6-Hydroxymellein Requires a Collaborating Polyketide Synthase-like Enzyme (open access)

Biosynthesis of 6-Hydroxymellein Requires a Collaborating Polyketide Synthase-like Enzyme

This article investigates a new architecture for iterative Type I polyketide synthases (PKS) from fungi.
Date: May 10, 2021
Creator: Kahlert, Lukas; Villanueva, Miranda; Cox, Russell J. & Skellam, Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of nine condensed-phase force fields of the GROMOS, CHARMM, OPLS, AMBER, and OpenFF families against experimental cross-solvation free energies (open access)

Evaluation of nine condensed-phase force fields of the GROMOS, CHARMM, OPLS, AMBER, and OpenFF families against experimental cross-solvation free energies

This article builds on a previous study [Kashefolgheta et al., J. Chem. Theory. Comput., 2020, 16, 7556–7580] by extending the comparison to five additional force fields, GROMOS-54A7, GROMOS-ATB, OPLS-LBCC, AMBER-GAFF2, and OpenFF.
Date: April 30, 2021
Creator: Kashefolgheta, Sadra; Wang, Shuzhe; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Hünenberger, Philippe H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oxygen atom transfer catalysis by dioxidomolybdenum(VI) complexes of pyridyl aminophenolate ligands (open access)

Oxygen atom transfer catalysis by dioxidomolybdenum(VI) complexes of pyridyl aminophenolate ligands

This article synthesizes and characterizes a series of new cationic dioxidomolybdenum(VI) complexes [MoO₂(Lⁿ)]PF₆ (2–5) with the tripodal tetradentate pyridyl aminophenolate ligands HL²-HL⁵.
Date: April 21, 2021
Creator: Hossain, Kamal; Schachner, Jörg A.; Haukka, Matti; Richmond, Michael G.; Mösch-Zanetti, Nadia C.; Lehtonen, Ari et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proton reduction by phosphinidene-capped triiron clusters (open access)

Proton reduction by phosphinidene-capped triiron clusters

This article prepares and examines Bis(phosphinidene)-capped triiron carbonyl clusters, including electron rich derivatives formed by substitution with chelating diphosphines as proton reduction catalysts.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Rahaman, Ahibur; Lisensky, George C.; Haukka, Matti; Tocher, Derek A.; Richmond, Michael G.; Colbran, Stephen B. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discovery of higher-order topological insulators using the spin Hall conductivity as a topology signature (open access)

Discovery of higher-order topological insulators using the spin Hall conductivity as a topology signature

This article shows a connection between spin Hall effect and HOTIs using a combination of ab initio calculations and tight-binding modeling. The model demonstrates how a non-zero bulk midgap spin Hall conductivity (SHC) emerges within the HOTI phase. This work guides novel experimental and theoretical advances towards higher-order topological insulator realization and applications.
Date: April 12, 2021
Creator: Costa, Marcio; Mera Acosta, Carlos; Padilha, Antonio C.M.; Cerasoli, Frank T.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Fazzio, Adalberto
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acetaldehyde oxidation at elevated pressure (open access)

Acetaldehyde oxidation at elevated pressure

A detailed chemical kinetic model for oxidation of CH3CHO at intermediate to high temperature and elevated pressure has been developed and evaluated by comparing predictions to novel high-pressure flow reactor experiments as well as shock tube ignition delay measurements and jet-stirred reactor data from literature. The flow reactor experiments were conducted with a slightly lean CH3CHO/O2 mixture highly diluted in N2 at 600–900 K and pressures of 25 and 100 bar. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: April 10, 2021
Creator: Hashemi, Hamid; Christensen, Jakob M.; Marshall, Paul & Glarborg, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental and kinetic modeling study of oxidation of acetonitrile (open access)

Experimental and kinetic modeling study of oxidation of acetonitrile

Article asserts that oxidation of acetonitrile has been studied in a flow reactor in the absence and presence of nitric oxide. A detailed chemical kinetic model for oxidation of acetonitrile was developed, based on a critical evaluation of data from literature. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: April 10, 2021
Creator: Alzueta, María U.; Guerrero, Marta; Millera, Angela; Marshall, Paul & Glarborg, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Green synthesis of olefin-linked covalent organic frameworks for hydrogen fuel cell applications (open access)

Green synthesis of olefin-linked covalent organic frameworks for hydrogen fuel cell applications

This article creates a green strategy to fabricate a highly crystalline olefin-linked pyrazine-based covalent organic framework (COF) with high robustness and porosity under solvent-free conditions. This study opens up new possibilities for the green synthesis of advanced materials and provides important guidance for the rational design and synthesis of polymeric materials for proton-exchange membrane fuel cell applications.
Date: March 31, 2021
Creator: Wang, Zhifang; Yang, Yi; Zhao, Zhengfeng; Zhang, Penghui; Zhang, Yushu; Liu, Jinjin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library