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Supramolecular Catalysis of m-Xylene Isomerization by Cucurbiturils: Transition State Stabilization, Vibrational Coupling, and Dynamic Binding Equilibrium

[Image: see text] The ability of cucurbit[6]uril (CB6) and cucurbit[7]uril (CB7) to catalyze the thermally activated 1,2-methyl shift isomerization pathway of m-xylene in vacuum is investigated using infrequent metadynamics. CB6 is predicted to effectively and selectively catalyze the meta-to-para i...

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Autores principales: Lambert, Hugues, Zhang, Yong-Wei, Lee, Tung-Chun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7304912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32582403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02012