Abstract:
:Understanding chemical reactivity through the use of state-of-the-art computational techniques enables chemists to both predict reactivity and rationally design novel reactions. This protocol aims to provide chemists with the tools to implement a powerful and robust method for analyzing and understanding any chemical reaction using PyFrag 2019. The approach is based on the so-called activation strain model (ASM) of reactivity, which relates the relative energy of a molecular system to the sum of the energies required to distort the reactants into the geometries required to react plus the strength of their mutual interactions. Other available methods analyze only a stationary point on the potential energy surface, but our methodology analyzes the change in energy along a reaction coordinate. The use of this methodology has been proven to be critical to the understanding of reactions, spanning the realms of the inorganic and organic, as well as the supramolecular and biochemical, fields. This protocol provides step-by-step instructions-starting from the optimization of the stationary points and extending through calculation of the potential energy surface and analysis of the trend-decisive energy terms-that can serve as a guide for carrying out the analysis of any given reaction of interest within hours to days, depending on the size of the molecular system.
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Nat Protocjournal_title
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Vermeeren P,van der Lubbe SCC,Fonseca Guerra C,Bickelhaupt FM,Hamlin TAdoi
10.1038/s41596-019-0265-0subject
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2020-02-01 00:00:00pages
649-667issue
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1754-2189issn
1750-2799pii
10.1038/s41596-019-0265-0journal_volume
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