The Cover Feature illustrates the solvation of proton by water at aromatic-water interface. authors show, using first principles calculations, that Eigen or Zundel Features are formed on top benzene, coronene dodecabenzocoronene depending aromatic ring size. More information can be found in Research Article Muthuramalingam Prakash, Majdi Hochlaf and co-workers.

In a recent contribution, we examined the effect of 10- and 14-center circuits on the nucleus-independent chemical shifts NICSs using multicenter bond indices (MCBIs) (Fias et al., J Comput Chem 2008, 29, 358). In this study, the nonlocal contributions to the NICS are further investigated for a larger set of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). To achieve this, the NICSs are predicted using...

The adsorption of Ag, Au, and Pd atoms on benzene, coronene, and graphene has been studied using post Hartree-Fock wave function theory (CCSD(T), MP2) and density functional theory (M06-2X, DFT-D3, PBE, vdW-DF) methods. The CCSD(T) benchmark binding energies for benzene-M (M = Pd, Au, Ag) complexes are 19.7, 4.2, and 2.3 kcal/mol, respectively. We found that the nature of binding of the three m...

This communication provides a facile method for distributing and dispersing molecules within a molecular template. Using the self-assembled template of oligo(phenylene-ethynylene) (OPE), organic molecules such as coronene (COR) and biomolecules such as tripeptide are controllably distributed and dispersed within this molecular template on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surfaces. COR ...

A method for the calculation of the hyper–Wiener index (WW ) of a benzenoid system B is described, based on its elementary cuts. A pair of elementary cuts partitions the vertices of B into four fragments, possessing nrs , r, s = 1, 2 vertices. WW is equal to the sum of terms of the form n11 n22 + n12 n21 . The applicability of the method is illustrated by deducing a general expression for WW of...