Chemical Bonds Acting between Different Chemical Species

Correlation Analysis of Chemical Bonds

We present the methodology for correlation analysis of chemical bond operators (CACB) on ab initio wave functions. In CACB the wave function is analyzed in a hierarchy of quantities (charge, bond order, bondbond correlation), where each quantity is the expectation value of an operator related to the statistical covariance of the previous quantity. CACB does not require any preconceived notion o...

Site-selective chemical cleavage of peptide bonds.

Site-selective cleavage of extremely unreactive peptide bonds is a very important chemical modification that provides invaluable information regarding protein sequence, and it acts as a modulator of protein structure and function for therapeutic applications. For controlled and selective cleavage, a daunting task, chemical reagents must selectively recognize or bind to one or more amino acid re...

Bond paths are not chemical bonds.

This account takes to task papers that criticize the definition of a bond path as a criterion for the bonding between the atoms it links by mistakenly identifying it with a chemical bond. It is argued that the notion of a chemical bond is too restrictive to account for the physics underlying the broad spectrum of interactions between atoms and molecules that determine the properties of matter. ...

OPTICAL STUDIES OF COLORED CHEMICAL SPECIES

Evanescent wave spectroscopy using thin optically transparent electrodes and multiple reflections allows unique observations of the electrochemical interphase since the region of solution sampled is typically 100 nm from the electrode in the visible spectral region. This technique is found to be highly sensitive to the presence of absorbing adsorbed species

Introducing Distinctly Different Chemical