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
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
Asymmetric hydrogenation of an α-unsaturated carboxylic acid catalyzed by intact chiral transition metal carbonyl clusters – diastereomeric control of enantioselectivity (open access)

Asymmetric hydrogenation of an α-unsaturated carboxylic acid catalyzed by intact chiral transition metal carbonyl clusters – diastereomeric control of enantioselectivity

Article presenting research where twenty clusters of the general formula [(μ-H)₂Ru₃(μ₃-S)(CO)₇(μ-P–P*)] (P–P* = chiral diphosphine of the ferrocene-based Walphos or Josiphos families) have been synthesised and characterised.
Date: February 27, 2020
Creator: Richmond, Michael G.; Abdel-Magied, Ahmed F.; Theibich, Yusuf; Singh, Amrendra K.; Rahaman, Ahibur; Doverbratt, Isa et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bifunctional activation of methane by bioinspired transition metal complexes. A simple methane protease model (open access)

Bifunctional activation of methane by bioinspired transition metal complexes. A simple methane protease model

Article modeling Metal-based bifunctional methane activators using density functional theory. The research yields insight into possible avenues for bio-inspired methane activators.
Date: February 15, 2021
Creator: Anderson, Mary E.; Marks, Michael B. & Cundari, Thomas R., 1964-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two-Layer High-Throughput: Effective Mass Calculations Including Warping (open access)

Two-Layer High-Throughput: Effective Mass Calculations Including Warping

Article performing and analyzing two-layer high-throughput calculations.
Date: February 26, 2022
Creator: Supka, Andrew; Mecholsky, Nicholas A.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Curtarolo, Stefano & Fornari, Marco
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 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
Soft Metal Cations Trigger Sandwich-Cluster Luminescence of a New Au(I)-Vinylimidazolate Cyclic Trinuclear Complex (open access)

Soft Metal Cations Trigger Sandwich-Cluster Luminescence of a New Au(I)-Vinylimidazolate Cyclic Trinuclear Complex

Article presenting results from a study where a new gold(I)-vinylimidazolate CTC, 1, was prepared and the formation of highly emissive sandwich adducts with the soft metal cations Cu+, Ag+, and Tl+, 2–4, respectively, was investigated.
Date: February 14, 2022
Creator: Lu, Zhou; Burini, Alfredo; McDougald, Roy N., Jr.; Ricci, Simone; Luciani, Lorenzo; Nesterov, Vladimir N. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soft Metal Cations Trigger Sandwich-Cluster Luminescence of a New Au(I)-Vinylimidazolate Cyclic Trinuclear Complex (open access)

Soft Metal Cations Trigger Sandwich-Cluster Luminescence of a New Au(I)-Vinylimidazolate Cyclic Trinuclear Complex

Article presenting research that obtained a new Au(I) CTC bearing the 1-vinylimidazolate ligand and furthered the controllable synthetic pathway to afford heterometallic sandwich-like clusters.
Date: February 14, 2022
Creator: Lu, Zhou; Burini, Alfredo; McDougald, Roy N., Jr.; Ricci, Simone; Luciani, Lorenzo; Nesterov, Vladimir N. 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
Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance (open access)

Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance

Article describes how covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of organic photocatalysts. The authors use reticular chemistry to construct a family of isoreticular crystalline hydrazide-based COF photocatalysts, with the optoelectronic properties and local pore characteristics of the COFs modulated using different linkers.
Date: February 27, 2023
Creator: Chen, Zhongshan; Wang, Jingyi; Hao, Mengjie; Xie, Yinghui; Liu, Xiaolu; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A theoretical study of M–M′ polar-covalent bonding in heterobimetallic multinuclear organometallic complexes of monovalent group 11 metal centres (open access)

A theoretical study of M–M′ polar-covalent bonding in heterobimetallic multinuclear organometallic complexes of monovalent group 11 metal centres

Article describes how complexes with closed-shell (d10–d10) interactions have been studied for their interesting luminescence properties in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices. The present computational study aims at understanding the chemical bonding/interactions in a series of molecules with unusually short metal–metal bond distances between monovalent coinage-metal (d10–d10) centres.
Date: February 8, 2023
Creator: Rabaâ, Hassan; Sundholm, Dage & Omary, Mohammad A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disentangling Orbital and Valley Hall Effects in Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (open access)

Disentangling Orbital and Valley Hall Effects in Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

This article shows that a bilayer of 2H-MoS₂ is an orbital Hall insulator that exhibits a sizeable orbital Hall effect in the absence of both spin and valley Hall effects. The results are based on density functional theory and low-energy effective model calculations and strongly suggest that bilayers of TMDs are highly suitable platforms for direct observation of the orbital Hall insulating phase in two-dimensional materials.
Date: February 5, 2021
Creator: Cysne, Tarik P.; Costa, Marcio; Canonico, Luis M.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Muniz, R. B. & Rappoport, Tatiana G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculation of the Vapour Pressure of Organic Molecules by Means of a Group-Additivity Method and Their Resultant Gibbs Free Energy and Entropy of Vaporization at 298.15 K (open access)

Calculation of the Vapour Pressure of Organic Molecules by Means of a Group-Additivity Method and Their Resultant Gibbs Free Energy and Entropy of Vaporization at 298.15 K

Article presenting the calculation of the vapour pressure of organic molecules at 298.15 K using a commonly applicable computer algorithm based on the group-additivity method. The standard entropy of vaporization ΔS°vap has been determined and compared with experimental data of 1129 molecules, exhibiting excellent conformance with a correlation coefficient R2 of 0.9598, a standard error σ of 8.14 J/mol/K and a medium absolute deviation of 4.68%.
Date: February 17, 2021
Creator: Naef, Rudolf & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework (open access)

Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework

Article discusses how the immobilization of biomolecules into porous materials could lead to significantly enhanced performance in terms of stability towards harsh reaction conditions and easier separation for their reuse. To gain insights into the spatial arrangement of biomolecules within the nanopores, the authors used in situ small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) to probe deuterated green fluorescent protein (d-GFP) entrapped in a mesoporous MOF.
Date: February 21, 2023
Creator: Wang, Xiaoliang; He, Lilin; Sumner, Jacob; Qian, Shuo; Zhang, Qiu; O'Neill, Hugh et al.
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
Nanomolecular singlet oxygen photosensitizers based on hemiquinonoid-resorcinarenes, the fuchsonarenes (open access)

Nanomolecular singlet oxygen photosensitizers based on hemiquinonoid-resorcinarenes, the fuchsonarenes

Article reports on singlet oxygen sensitization involving a class of hemiquinonoid-substituted resorcinarenes prepared from the corresponding 3,5-di-t-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl-substituted resorcinarenes.
Date: February 18, 2020
Creator: Payne, Daniel T.; Webre, W. A.; Gobeze, Habtom B.; Seetharaman, Sairaman; Matsushita, Yoshitaka; Karr, Paul A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anion-enhanced excited state charge separation in a spiro-locked N-heterocycle-fused push-pull zinc porphyrin (open access)

Anion-enhanced excited state charge separation in a spiro-locked N-heterocycle-fused push-pull zinc porphyrin

This article presents a new type of push–pull charge transfer complex, viz., a spiro-locked N-heterocycle-fused zinc porphyrin, ZnP-SQ, that is shown to undergo excited state charge separation, which is enhanced by axial F⁻ binding to the Zn center. Spectroelectrochemical studies are used to identify the spectra of charge separated states and charge separation upon photoexcitation of ZnP is established.
Date: February 24, 2021
Creator: Chahal, Mandeep K.; Liyanage, Anudradha; Alsaleh, Ajyal Z.; Karr, P. A.; Hill, Jonathan P. & D'Souza, Francis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efficient oral insulin delivery enabled by transferrin-coated acid-resistant metal-organic framework nanoparticles (open access)

Efficient oral insulin delivery enabled by transferrin-coated acid-resistant metal-organic framework nanoparticles

Article uses acid-resistant metal-organic framework nanoparticles (UiO-68-NH2) to encapsulate sufficient insulin and decorated the exterior with targeting proteins (transferrin) to realize highly efficient oral insulin delivery.
Date: September 20, 2021
Creator: Zou, Jun-Jie; Wei, Gaohui; Xiong, Chuxiao; Yu, Yunhao; Li, Sihui; Hu, Liefeng et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unusual Properties of Hydrogen-Bonded Ferroelectrics: The Case of Cobalt Formate (open access)

Unusual Properties of Hydrogen-Bonded Ferroelectrics: The Case of Cobalt Formate

Article using first-principles simulations to predict room temperature ferroelectricity in a representative of the formate family, [NH₂NH₃][Co(HCOO)₃].
Date: February 18, 2022
Creator: Ghosh, P. S.; DeTellem, D.; Ren, J.; Witanachchi, S.; Ma, Shengqian; Lisenkov, S. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Functional Porous Organic Polymers as Advanced Decontamination Materials for Water Purification (open access)

Functional Porous Organic Polymers as Advanced Decontamination Materials for Water Purification

Data management plan for the grant "Functional Porous Organic Polymers as Advanced Decontamination Materials for Water Purification." This project seeks to develop and deploy a new class of porous organic polymers which have high capacity and selectivity to rapidly remove heavy metal contaminants well below parts per million level standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. The project will engineer porosity and surface chemistry of porous organic polymers to clean inorganic heavy metal contaminants from both surface water and wastewater. Porous organic polymers are robust, chemically and thermally stable, scalable, and modular, with very high surface area. The modularity of these polymers allows for a molecular-level tuning of the pore structure and surface chemistry that allows for engineered site-specificity of binding sites that target the heavy metal contaminants. Recent data shows these new materials offer a significant increase in capacity relative to benchmark materials, with a rapid removal of mercury and other heavy metal ions. This project will advance the concept by exploring rational design of these porous polymers with different topologies by customizing the monomer with various binding groups. The objectives of the project include design, synthesis, and characterization, followed by assessment of these materials to remove inorganic contaminants …
Date: 2021-02-01/2021-07-31
Creator: Ma, Shengqian
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kinetic fall-off behavior for the Cl + Furan-2,5-dione (C4H2O3, maleic anhydride) reaction (open access)

Kinetic fall-off behavior for the Cl + Furan-2,5-dione (C4H2O3, maleic anhydride) reaction

Article discusses how rate coefficients, k, for the gas-phase Cl + Furan-2,5-dione (C4H2O3, maleic anhydride) reaction were measured over the 15–500 torr (He and N2 bath gas) pressure range at temperatures between 283 and 323 K. An atmospheric degradation mechanism for C4H2O3 is proposed based on the observed product yields and theoretical calculations of ring-opening pathways and activation barrier energies at the CBS-QB3 level of theory. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: February 15, 2021
Creator: Chattopadhyay, Aparajeo; Gierczak, Tomasz; Marshall, Paul; Papadimitriou, Vassileios C. & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library