Guided discovery of chemical reaction pathways with imposed activation

Abstract

Activation of a single user-selected coordinate such as stretching of a bond combined with a constrained conformer search via metadynamics allows chemical reaction pathways and the associated transition structures to be explored comprehensively.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2022
Source ID
10.1039/d2sc05135d

Entities

People

  • Alán Aspuru-Guzik
  • Cyrille Lavigne
  • Gabriel Dos Passos Gomes
  • Robert Pollice

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Natural Resources Canada
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
  • University of Toronto
  • Vector Institute

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Quantum Chemistry