Computational Studies of Catalysis : Bioinorganic, Inorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry
出版項
2018
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1 online resource (197 pages)
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: B
Adviser: Charles Edwin Webster
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University, 2018
Includes bibliographical references
As a reliable, convenient, and advantageous tool in the theoretical investigations of bioinorganic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) computations have provided chemists with numerous significant insights. The understanding of mechanisms of chemical reactions, and the design and development of catalysts have been greatly promoted by the employment of DFT
In this dissertation, the applications of DFT computations on the catalytic bioorganic, inorganic, and organometallic systems were studied. Phosphoramidate hydrolysis catalyzed by human histidine triad nucleotide binding protein 1 (hHint1) was investigated using a cluster-model DFT approach, and the key involvement of the histidine triad as a proton shuttle was discussed in the proposed mechanism. The IEFPCM-Bondi-B3LYP/BS1 methodology was demonstrated as a reliable, and time-saving model in computing the reduction potentials of transition metal complexes. Moderate accuracy (MAD = 0.233 V, mean absolute deviation) and good linear correlation (R2 = 0.93) between computed and experimental reduction potentials of the 49 studied species are osberved. The fluxionality of cyclohexenyl manganese tricarbonyl [(C 6H9)Mn(CO)3] was investigated using DFT computations, which uncovered a previously uncharacterized "closed" Cs agostomer. The intramolecular oxidative amination of an alkene catalyzed by the extreme pi-loading N-heterocyclic carbene pincer Tantalum(V) bis(imido) complex was also computationally analyzed, and the mechanisms of the formation of oxidative amination product, reduction product, and hydroamination product were investigated. The computational results are consistent with the experimentally observed product ratios and selectivity
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2019
