Research Highlights

Macromolecular diffusion in crowded media beyond the hard-sphere model

P. M. Blanco, J. L. Garcés, S. Madurga, F. Mas.Soft Matter 14 (2018) 3105-3114. Outline of the Chain Entanglement Soft-Core (CESC) model. Macromolecules are modeled as spheres with two different […]

Palladium-mediated enzyme activation suggests multiphase initiation of glycogenesis

M. K. Bilyard, H. Bailey, L. Raich, M. Gafitescu, T. Machida, J. Iglesias-Fernández, S. S. Lee, C. D. Spicer, C. Rovira, W. W. Yue, B. G. Davis.Nature, 563 (2018) 235. […]

Computational Sudy of the Aza-Michael Addition of the Flavonoid (+)-Taxifolin in Inhibition of β-Amyloid Fibril Aggregation

T. Ginex, M. Trius, F. J. Luque.Chem. Eur. J., 24 (2018) 5813-5824. Detail of the binding of (+)-taxifolin to β-amyloid. The formation of covalent adducts with amyloid fibrils that interfere […]

Double CH activation of a masked cationic bismuth amide

B. Ritschel, J. Poater, H. Dengel, F. M. Bickelhaupt, C. Lichtenberg.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57 (2018) 3825-3829. The transformation of CH bonds into more reactive CM bonds amenable to further […]

Electronic energy transfer in biomacromolecules

L. Cupellini, M. Corbella, B. Mennucci, C. Curutchet.WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci., 2018, in press, doi: 10.1002/wcms.1392. Molecular simulations of energy transfer in biomolecules allow overcoming the main limitations of Förster […]

Control over Near-Ballistic Electron Transport through Formation of Parallel Pathways in a Single-Molecule Wire

A. C Aragonès, N. Darwish, S. Ciampi, L. Jiang, R. Roesch, E. Ruiz, C. A Nijhuis, I. Díez- Pérez.J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141 (2018) 240. This paper reports highly efficient […]

Taming a monomeric Cu(n6-C6H6)+ complex with silylene

N. Parvin, S. Pal, J. Echeverria, S. Alvarez, S. Khan.Chem. Sci., 9 (2018) 4333-4337. Different coordination mode of benzene to Cu(I) depending on the additional ligands. A computational study of […]

CO2 Abatement Using Two-Dimensional MXene Carbides

Á. Morales-García, A. Fernández-Fernández, F. Viñes, F. Illas.J. Mater. Chem. A., 6 (2018) 3381. Activation and capture of CO2 on MXene carbides. The ever-growing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in […]

The role of metal/oxide interfaces for long-range metal particle activation during CO oxidation

Y. Suchorski, S. M. Kozlov, I. Bespalov, M. Datler, D. Vogel, Z. Budinska, K. M. Neyman, G. Rupprechter.Nature Materials 17 (2018) 519. A tiny contact line between Pd grain and […]

Conducting Anilate-Based Mixed-Valence Fe(II)Fe(III) Coordination Polymer: Smallpolaron Hopping Model for Oxalate-Type Fe(II)Fe(III) 2D Networks

S. Sahadevan, A. Abhervé, N. Monni, C. Sáenz de Pipaón, J. R. Galan-Mascaros, J. Waerenborgh, B. Vieira, P. Auban-Senzier, S. Pillet, E. Bendeif, P. Alemany, E. Canadell, M.L. Mercuri, N. […]