Archive of Computational Chemistry News Items

October 5, 2012 Awards enable collaborations with undergraduate institutions
October 1, 2012 Research article on proton transfer energies draws interest
September 13, 2012 Don Truhlar presented/will present a plenary lecture on "Variational Transition State Theory" at the International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry.
September 11, 2012 HAT or CPET? Third Dimension of More O'Ferrall-Jencks Diagram
September 10, 2012 Energy research article one of the 20 most read
August 22, 2012 Two new nationwide centers funded by DOE (total $13.1 million over the next five years)
August 20, 2012 Ab Initio Carbon Capture in Open-Site Metal-Organic Frameworks
August 16, 2012 New Efficient Methods for Predicting Kinetics of Combustion
January 19, 2012 Reliable Kinetic Predictions for Key Butanol Combustion Reaction
July 28, 2011 Graduate students receive poster awards at WATOC Congress
March 02, 2011 Kinetic Isotope Effects Predicted for an Enzymatic Reaction
January 28, 2011 Kinetic Isotope Effects Predicted Correctly for a Mass Ratio of 36
November 30, 2010 Potential Energy Surfaces for Simulating Complex Chemical Processes
August 6, 2010 Computations Clarify Oxidation Pathways
June 20, 2010 Transition states for reactions of alcohols with the hydroperoxyl and methyl radicals
June 16, 2010 Kinetics of Hydrogen-Transfer Isomerizations of Butoxyl Radicals
June 11, 2010 Accuracy of density functionals for Pd(PH3)2L complexes where L is ethene or a conjugated CnHn+2 system (n = 4, 6, 8 and 10)
June 5, 2010 Orbital-Dependent Density Functionals for Chemical Catalysis
January 12, 2010 Least-action tunneling paths
December 18, 2009 Mechanism of Water Oxidation for the Ru-Hbpp Catalyst
November 5, 2009 A New Paradigm for Biomolecular Simulations
August 27, 2009 Prof. York edits a new book
May 29, 2009 Crystal structure of octabromoditechnetate(III) and a multi-configurational quantum chemical study of the quadruply bonded [M2X8]2- dimers (M = Tc, Re; X = Cl, Br)
May 11, 2009 Consistent van der Waals Radii
Feburary 17, 2009 Reduction of Nitrous Oxide to Dinitrogen by a Mixed Valent Tricopper-Disulfido Cluster
April 21, 2008 Solvent Structure and Ribozyme Catalysis
March 3, 2008 Force Fields For Complex Reactions
February 25, 2008 Glimpses into the mechanisms of RNA catalysis revealed by molecular simulations
February 12, 2008 Understanding Retention in Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography
February 7, 2008 The SM8 Universal Solvation Model (PDF format)
February 7, 2008 Truhlar Group Research Highlights (PowerPoint format, PDF format)
February 6, 2008 Toward Accurate Potentials for Condensed-Phase Chemical Reactions: Electrostatically Embedded Multi-Configuration Molecular Mechanics (PowerPoint format, PDF format)
November 7, 2007 A Copper-Oxo Intermediate from O2?
June 25, 2007 Computer Simulations Show that the Hydrogen Radical Transfer Reaction Catalyzed by Methylmalonyl-CoA Mutase and Coenzyme B12 is Dominated by Extreme Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
April 7, 2007 Truhlar Group Progress Report: NSF Research
February 28, 2007 Quantum Chemical Characterization of the Bonding of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes to Cp2MI Compounds [M = Ce(III), U(III)]
February 2, 2007 Current highlights in medicinal chemistry and enzyme kinetics
February 1, 2007 Solvation research
January 31, 2007 Computational nanoscale science
January 30, 2007 Photochemical dynamics
January 29, 2007 Thermochemical kinetics, environmental dynamics, planetary and earth sciences, catalysis, and combustion modeling: Next-generation density functionals and new methods for calculating potential energy functions
January 19, 2007 Insight into the role of Mg(II) in hammerhead ribozyme catalysis from X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulation
July 10, 2006 Assessment of the Pairwise Additive Approximation and Evaluation of Many-Body Terms for Water Clusters
February 15, 2006 Critical Properties of Aluminum
February 1, 2006 Simulating Fluid Phase Equilibria of Water from First Principles
January 18st, 2006 Improved Density Functionals for Water
January 4, 2006 Enzyme Catalysis: Quantum Effects and Non-perfect Synchronization
December 7, 2005 Improvement of charge-dependent response properties in semiempirical QM/MM models for RNA catalysis
September 14, 2005 PM3BP : A new semiempirical quantum model for hydrogen bonded nucleic acid base pairs
August 31, 2005 Photodissociation of NH3
August 9, 2005 Photodissociation of Ammonia
August 5, 2005 Improved Density Functionals for Water
August 4, 2005 Enzyme Catalysis: Quantum Effects and Non-perfect Synchronization
May 11, 2005 Tuning the Diradical Character of meta-Arynes
April 13, 2005 The contribution of phosphate-phosphate repulsions to the free energy of DNA bending
April 1, 2005 ECCC10 feauture paper: QM/MM: What have we learned, where are we, and where do we go from here?
March 31, 2005 NSF annual report: Quantum mechanical effects in complex systems
March 2, 2005 Quantum mechanical reaction rate constants by vibrational configuration interaction
March 1, 2005 Computation-team to advance efficiency of Naval energy
February 16, 2005 Molecular Rods of GaN Emit Blue Light
January 5, 2005 Simulating Green Solvents
November 24, 2004 New methods for treatment of long-range electrostatic interactions in quantum simulations of biochemical reactions
November 10, 2004 Dioxygen Activation at a Single Copper Site
November 8, 2004 Quantum mechanical reaction rate constants by vibrational configuration interaction
September 29, 2004 Multi-scale quantum models for RNA catalysis
July 21, 2004 Hybrid QM/MM study of thio effects in transphosphorylation reactions: the role of solvation
June 23, 2004 Liquid Water from First Principles: Validation of Different Sampling Approaches
May 26, 2004 Combining Self-Consistent-Charge Density-Functional Tight-Binding (SCC-DFTB) with Molecular Mechanics by the Generalized Hybrid Orbital (GHO) Method
April 14, 2004 Design and application of a multi-coefficient correlation method for dispersion interactions
January 21, 2004 Dynamics of an Enzymatic Substitution Reaction in Haloalkane Dehalogenase
December 24, 2003 Insights into the regioselectivity and RNA binding affinity of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein from linear-scaling quantum methods
December 11, 2003 DHFR kinetic isotope effects
December 10, 2003 Electronic Structure of Group-13/Group-15 Materials
October 17, 2003 Quantum mechanical rare event sampling
October 3, 2003 Laser-controlled chemistry: Modeling the photodissociation dynamics of LiFH with semiclassical trajectories
October 2, 2003 Research Overview (PowerPoint format, PDF format)
September 17, 2003 The Mechanism of Carbocation Cyclization by Squalene Cyclase
July 23, 2003 Hybrid QM/MM study of thio effects in transphosphorylation reactions in solution
July 9, 2003 Temperature Dependence of Transfer Properties: Importance of Heat Capacity Effects
May 28th, 2003 What is the Mechanism of Methane C-H Bond Activation by Metallocenes?
April 30, 2003 Probing dipole lattices at molecule-metal interfaces
January 22, 2003 Spectroscopic and theoretical characterization of tyrosyl radicals in dipeptides
January 8, 2003 Multicoefficient Correlation Methods for Thermochemistry and Thermochemical Kinetics
December 12, 2002 Low Temperature Limit of a Chemical Reaction Rate
December 11, 2002 Simulating the Nucleation of Water/Ethanol and Water/Nonane Mixtures
October 16, 2002 Transition States for Quantum Photochemistry and the Breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation for Laser-Induced Chemistry
October 2, 2002 Snapshots of Dioxygen Activation by Copper
July 24, 2002 Bonding in hexacoordinate silyl-palladium complexes
July 10, 2002 Solvation of Napthalene in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
June 12, 2002 Computational Methods for RNA Catalysis
January 23, 2002 Substituent Effects on Antitumor-Antibiotic Cyclizations
November 14, 2001 Influence of Analyte Overloading on Retention in Gas-Liquid Chromatography
August 8, 2001 Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in Methylamine Dehydrogenase
June 13, 2001 Self-Aggregation in Dilute Solutions of 1-Hexanol in n-Hexane
May 16, 2001 C-H Bond Activation by Ligated bis(Oxo)dicopper Cores
May 2, 2001 Carbon Free Metallocenes: A New Area of Inorganic Chemistry
February 7, 2001 High Resolution Structure of the Human Protein Sarcolipin by NMR Spectroscopy
January 10, 2001 New Quantum Indices for Biological Macromolecules
November 29, 2000 Monte Carlo Simulations of Superheated Hydrogen Fluoride Vapor
November 15, 2000 Progress on the Four-Body Problem: Quantum Mechanics of HF Dimer
November 1, 2000 Energy Components of Hydrogen-bonding Interactions
October 4, 2000 IR Stretching Frequencies
September 6, 2000 Solute Partitioning between water and (dry or wet) 1-octanol
July 26, 2000 Coupled Motion in the Quantum Dynamics of Enzyme Reactions
June 28, 2000 New Quantum Methods for Enzyme Reactions in Solution
February 23, 2000 Molecular Modeling of Supercritical Fluid Extraction
February 9, 2000 Computational Electrochemistry: Prediction of Environmentally Important Redox Potentials
January 12, 2000 Self-assembled molecular electronics: is the interface conducting?
December 1, 1999 New Quantum Methods for Enzyme Reactions in Solution
October 20, 1999 Modeling the Relationship between Sequence and Aminoacylation Activity for tRNA Variants
September 8, 1999 Simulating Retention in Chromatography
July 14, 1999 Engineering Improved Pharmacophores


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