Publications related to Trigonal pyramidal molecular geometry

Hydrogen Bonding of Ammonia with (H,OH)-Si(001) Revealed by Experimental and Ab Initio Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Combining experimental and ab initio core-level photoelectron spectroscopy (periodic DFT and quantum chemistry calculations), we elucidated how ammonia molecules bond to the hydroxyls of the (H,OH)-Si(001) model surface at a temperature of 130 K. Indeed, t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Energy and orientation independence of the channel branching in Ne* + ND3 chemi-ionisation

Andreas Osterwalder, Sean Dennis Steven Gordon

Collisions of excited neon atoms with ammonia molecules can lead to two reaction processes, dissociative ionisation and Penning ionisation. Both processes result in the ionisation of the ammonia molecule and redistribution of the electronic energy into the ...

2019

New Zn(II) complexes with N2S2 Schiff base ligands. Experimental and theoretical studies of the role of Zn(II) in disulfide thiolate-exchange

Kurt Schenk, Maryam Bagheri

Described are the synthesis and characterization of two, potentially tetradentate, N2S2 Schiff-base ligands, containing a disulfide bond, N,N'-bis(3-phenylprop-2-en-l-ylidene)-2,2'-disulfanediyldianiline (L-1) and N,N'-bis(3,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-ylidene)- ...

Elsevier2014

Structure Sensitivity of 2-Methyl-3-butyn-2-ol Hydrogenation on Pd: Computational and Experimental Modeling

Lioubov Kiwi, Rocio Micaela Crespo Quesada

In the frame of DFT paradigms, the adsorption of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol (MBY) and 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MBE) on a Pd-30 cluster, including both {100} and {111} faces, was studied along with the pathways involved in the hydrogenation, taking place on plane ...

American Chemical Society2014

Speciation of aqueous tellurium(IV) in hydrothermal solutions and vapors, and the role of oxidized tellurium species in Te transport and gold deposition

Lothar Helm, Pascal Grundler

Despite the close association between tellurium (Te) and gold (Au) in many epithermal, orogenic, and intrusion-related hydrothermal ore deposits, the hydrothermal chemistry of Te remains poorly understood. We studied the protonation/ deprotonation and stru ...

Elsevier2013

Electrochemical behavior of ammonia at Ni/Ni(OH)2 electrode

Christos Comninellis, Agnieszka Kapalka

The electrochemical oxidation of ammonia was investigated on a Ni/Ni(OH)(2) electrode prepared by potential cycling of a Ni electrode in 1 M NaClO4. It was found that oxidation of ammonia is strongly pH dependent and proceeds mainly at pH values above 7. T ...

Elsevier2010

Photophysics and Photochemistry from First Principles : Applications to Problems in Materials Science and Biology

Matteo Guglielmi

Quantum chemical methods are important tools for the predictions of electronic structure and energetics of molecules providing the interpretation of spectroscopic experiments and reaction mechanisms. In this thesis, density functional theory (DFT) and wave ...

EPFL2010

Stabilization of bimolecular islands on ultrathin NaCl films by a vicinal substrate

Harald Brune, Marta Canas Ventura

The structure of ultrathin NaCl films on Au(1 1 1) and on Au(11 12 12), as well as the one of bimolecular 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI) and 1,4-bis-(2,4-diamino-1,3,5,-triazine)-benzene (BDATB) islands on NaCl films on both surfaces have ...

Elsevier2009

On the Proton Transfer Mechanism in Ammonia-Bridged 7-Hydroxyquinoline: a First-Principles TDDFT Molecular Dynamics Study

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Matteo Guglielmi

We have investigated the mechanism of proton transfer in the lowest photoexcited state of 7-hydroxyquinoline·(NH3)3 using TDDFT based molecular dynamics. We observe a concerted mechanism according to which all protons are transferred simultaneously in a fa ...

2009

What governs nitrogen configuration in substituted aminophosphines?

Matthew Wodrich, Pierre-Yves Morgantini, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf

The trigonal planar geometry of the nitrogen atom in commonly used phosphoramidite ligands is not in line with the traditional valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) model. In this work, the effects governing nitrogen configuration in several substi ...

2008