Electronically functional inorganic

Advanced functional inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have been studied intensively in the last couple of decades due to their unusual chemical and physical properties compared with their bulk materials, which enable them to be promising in applications as diverse as electronics,1 optics,2 optoelectronics,3 nanosensors,4 information storage,5 fuel cells,6 biomedicine,7 biological labeling,8 gene delivery,9 electrocatalysis,10 and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).11,12 For instance, metal NPs with... 

Characterize the structure and dynamics of active sites in enzymes and the correlated motions of secondary and tertiary structures. Measure half-lifetimes of individual steps of electron- and ion-transport during catalytic cycles. Synthesize ligands for metal centers and functionalize inorganic pores to attain enzyme-like activity and selectivity with inorganic-like robustness. 

J Li, L Noodleman, DA Case. Electronic structure calculations Density functional methods with applications to transition metal complexes. In EIS Lever, ABP Lever, eds. Inorganic Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy, Vol. 1. Methodology. New York Wiley, 1999, pp 661-724. 

When a Br nsted base functions catalytically by sharing an electron pair with a proton, it is acting as a general base catalyst, but when it shares the electron with an atom other than the proton it is (by definition) acting as a nucleophile. This other atom (electrophilic site) is usually carbon, but in organic chemistry it might also be, for example, phosphorus or silicon, whereas in inorganic chemistry it could be the central metal ion in a coordination complex. Here we consider nucleophilic reactions at unsaturated carbon, primarily at carbonyl carbon. Nucleophilic reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives have been well studied. These acyl transfer reactions can be represented by... 

Li, J., Noodleman, L., Case, D.A. Electronic stmcture calculations Density functional methods with applications to transition metal complexes. In Solomon, E.I., Lever, A.B.P. (eds.) Inorganic Electronic Stmcture and Spectroscopy, vol. 1, P- 661. Wiley, New York (1999)... 

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