Cooperativity in Chemistry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2020) | Viewed by 312
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computational organic chemistry; organic reaction mechanisms; noncovalent interactions; radical chemistry; physical organic chemistry; organometallic chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts”—Cooperativity is a fundamental principle in nature and specifically in molecular chemistry. In organic synthesis and catalysis, the synergistic action of reagents may increase the rate, yield or selectivity of reactions when compared to transformations in the presence of only one reagent or catalyst. In supramolecular chemistry, cooperativity modulates the binding energy of multifunctional molecules, controlling the formation of oligomeric or polymeric nanostructures in self-assembly processes. Magnetic and dielectric properties of molecules or molecular materials are in many cases determined by cooperative interactions of the constituting functional units.
The detection and qualitative or quantitative determination of synergistic effects as deviations from additive contributions to reaction rates, binding energies or molecular properties requires detailed analysis and, in many cases, a computational perspective. Computations help to understand, e.g., the role of reactants in a synergistic mechanism or quantify the amount of cooperative energy in noncovalently bound aggregates.
This Special Issue of Molecules invites representative original research papers and reviews that qualitatively or quantitatively elucidate cooperative effects in chemical reactions, molecular properties, and self-assembly processes by experiments or computational methods.
Dr. Christian Mück-Lichtenfeld
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cooperativity
- Cooperative catalysis
- Noncovalent interactions
- Supramolecular chemistry
- Physical chemistry
- Computational chemistry
