Tag: DFT

Designing solvent systems using self-evolving solubility databases and graph neural networks, Yeonjoon Kim, Hojin Jung, Sabari Kumar, Robert S. Paton, Seonah Kim†, Chem. Sci., 15, 923-939 (2024) ChemSciPick

A comprehensive experimental and kinetic modeling study of di-isobutylene isomers: Part 1, Nitin Lokachari, Goutham Kukkadapu, Hwasup Song, Guillaume Vanhove, Guillaume Dayma, Zeynep Serinyel, Kuiwen Zhang, Roland Dauphin, Brian Etz, Seonah Kim, Mathias Steglich, Andras Bodi, Gina Fioroni, Patrick Hemberger, Sergey S. Matveev, Alexander A. Konnov, Philippe Dagaut, Scott W Wagnon, William J. Pitz, Henry J. Curran, Combustion and Flame, 251, 112301 (2023)

Toward Rational Design of Supported Vanadia Catalysts of Lignin Conversion to Phenol. Yeonjoon Kim, Mohammed A. Jabed, David M. Price, Dmitri Kilin, Seonah Kim, Chem. Eng. J., 446, 136965 (2022)

Connecting cation site location to alkane dehydrogenation activity in Ni/BEA catalysts, Carrie A. Farberow; Evan C. Wegener; Anurag Kumar; Jacob Miller; Daniel P. Dupuis; Seonah Kim; Daniel A. Ruddy, J. Catal., 413, 264-273 (2022)

Predicting catalytic pyrolysis aromatic selectivity from Pyrolysis Vapor Composition using Mass Spectra Coupled with Statistical Analysis, Anne K. Strace, David D. Lee, Kristen T. Hietala, Yeonjoon Kim, Seonah Kim, Anne E. Harman-Ware and Daniel L. Carpenter, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 10, 1, 234-244 (2022)

Chemical kinetic basis of synergistic blending for research octane number, Gina M. Fioroni, Mohammed J. Rahimi, Charles K. Westbrook, Scott W. Wagnon, William J. Pitz, Seonah Kim and Robert L. McCormick, Fuel, 307, 121865 (2022)

Elucidating the chemical pathways of soot precursor formation during combustion of 1- and 2-phenylethanol, Brian D. Etz, Gina M. Fioroni, Richard A. Messerly, Mohammad J. Rahimi, Peter C. St. John, David J. Robichaud, Earl D. Christensen, Brian P. Beekley, Charles S. McEnally, Lisa D. Pfefferle, Yuan Xuan, Shubham Vyas, Robert S. Paton, Robert L. McCormick, Seonah Kim, Proc. Comb. Inst. 38, 1, 1327-1334 (2021)

Investigation of structural effects of aromatic compounds on sooting tendency with mechanistic insight into ethylphenol isomers, Yeonjoon Kim, Brian D. Etz, Peter C. St. John, Gina M. Fioroni, Richard A. Messerly, Shubham Vyas, Brain P. Beekley, Facheng Guo, Charles S. McEnally, Lisa D. Pfefferle, Robert L. McCormick, Seonah Kim, Proc. Comb. Inst. 38, 1, 1143-1151 (2021)

A perspective on biomass-derived biofuels: from catalyst design principles to fuel properties, Yeonjoon Kim, Anna E. Thomas, David J. Robichaud, Kristiina Iisa, Peter C. St. John, Brian D. Etz, Gina M. Fioroni, Abhijit Dutta, Robert L. McCormick, Calvin Mukarakate, Seonah Kim, J. Haz. Mat., 400, 5, 123198 (2020)

In-situ hydrogenation of bio-oil/bio-oil phenolic compounds with secondary alcohols over a synthesized mesoporous Ni/CeO2 catalyst, Hoda Shafaghat, Yiu Fai Tsang, Jong-Ki Jeon, Ji Man Kim, Youri Park, Yeonjoon Kim, Seonah Kim, Young-Kwon Park, Chemical Engineering Journal, 382, 122912 (2020)

Integrating Experimental and Computational Studies Unravels the Ga Species Responsible for Enhancing Alkene Production during Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass Pyrolysis Vapors over Ga/ZSM-5, Kristiina Iisa, Yeonjoon Kim, Kellene A. Orton, David J. Robichaud, Rui Katahira, Michael J. Watson, Mark R. Nimlos, Joshua A. Schaidle, Calvin Mukarakate, and Seonah Kim, Green Chem., 22, 2403-2418 (2020) (cover page, 2020 Green Chemistry Hot Articles)

Isotopic Studies for Tracking Biogenic Carbon during Co-processing of Biomass and Vacuum Gas Oil, Calvin Mukarakate, Kellene Orton, Yeonjoon Kim, Stefano Dell’Orco, Carrie A Farberow, Seonah Kim, Michael J Watson, Robert Baldwin and Kim Magrini, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 8, 7, 2652-2664 (2020)

Prediction of gas-phase homolytic bond dissociation energies at near chemical accuracy with sub-second computational cost, Peter C. St. John, Yanfei Guan, Yeonjoon Kim, Seonah Kim, Robert S. Paton, Nature Comm., 11, 2328 (2020).

Prediction of Hydroxymethylfurfural Yield in Glucose Conversion through Investigation of Lewis Acid and Organic Solvent Effects, Yeonjoon Kim, Ashutosh Mittal, David J. Robichaud, Heidi M. Pilath, Brian D. Etz, Peter C. St. John, David K. Johnson, and Seonah Kim, ACS Catalysis, 10, 24, 14707-14721 (2020).

Quantum chemical calculations for over 200,000 organic radical species and 40,000 associated closed-shell molecules, Peter St. John, Yanfei Guan, Yeonjoon Kim, Brian D. Etz, Seonah Kim, Robert S. Paton, Scientific Data, 7, 244 (2020).

Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Quantum Chemistry Calculations To Investigate Soot-Relevant Reaction Pathways for Hexylamine Isomers, Hyunguk Kwon, Brian D. Etz, Matthew J. Montgomery, Richard Messerly, Sharmin Shabnam, Shubham Vyas, Adri C. T. van Duin, Charles S. McEnally, Lisa D. Pfefferle, Seonah Kim, and Yuan Xuan, J. Phys. Chem. A, 124, 4290-4304 (2020)

Experimental and theoretical insight into the soot tendencies of the methylcyclohexene isomers, Seonah Kim, Gina M. Fioroni, Ji-Woong Park, David J. Robichaud, Dhrubajyoti D. Das, Peter C. St. John, Tianfeng Lu, Charles S. McEnally, Lisa D. Pfefferle, Robert S. Paton, Thomas D. Foust, Robert L. McCormick, Proc. Comb. Inst., 37, 1, 1083-1090 (2019).

Small ester combustion chemistry: Computational kinetics and experimental study of methyl acetate and ethyl acetate, Ahfaz Ahmed, William J.Pitz, Carlo Cavallotti, Marco Mehl, Nitin Lokachari, Elna J.K. Nilsson, Jui-Yang Wang, Alexander A. Konnov, Scott W. Wagnon, Bingjie Chen, Zhandong Wang, Seonah Kim, Henry J. Curran, Stephen J. Klippenstein, William L. Roberts, S. Mani Sarathy, Proc. Comb. Inst., 37, 1, 419-428 (2019)

Theoretical Determination of Size Effects in Zeolite-catalyzed Alcohol Dehydration, Larissa Y. Kunz, Lintao Bu, Brandon C. Knott, Cong Liu, Mark R. Nimlos, Rajeev S. Assary, Larry A. Curtiss, David J. Robichaud, and Seonah Kim, Catalysts, 9, 700 (2019).

Advancing Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis through Integrated Multiscale Modeling and Experimentation: Challenges, Progress and Perspectives, Peter N. Ciesielski, M. Brennan Pecha, Vivek S. Bharadwaj, Calvin Mukarakate, G. Jeremy Leong, Branden Kappes, Michael F. Crowley, Seonah Kim, Thomas D. Foust, Mark R. Nimlos, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, DOI: 10.1002/wene.297 (2018)

Consideration of the Aluminum Distribution in Zeolites in Theoretical and Experimental Catalysis Research, Brandon C. Knott, Claire T. Nimlos, David J. Robichaud, Mark R. Nimlos, Seonah Kim, Rajamani Gounder, ACS Catal., 8, 770-784 (2018)

Different Behaviors of a Substrate in P450 Decarboxylase and Hydroxylase Reveal Reactivity-Enabling Actors, Vivek S. Bharadwaj, Seonah Kim, Michael T. Guarnieri, Michael F. Crowley, Scientific Reports, 8, 12826 (2018).

Experimental and theoretical study of oxidative stability of alkylated furans used as gasoline blend components, Earl Christensen, Gina M. Fioroni, Seonah Kim, Lisa Fouts, Erica Gjersing, Robert S. Paton, and Robert L. McCormick, Fuel, 576-585 (2018).

Sooting tendencies of aromatic hydrocarbons with oxygen- containing side-chains, Brian P. Beekley, Charles S. McEnally, Peter C. St. John, Seonah Kim, Abhishek Jain, Hyunguk Kwon, Yuan Xuan, Lisa D. Pfefferle, ESSCI (Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute) Spring 2018, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

Exploring low-temperature dehydrogenation at ionic Cu sites in beta zeolite to enable alkane recycle in dimethyl ether homologation, Carrie A. Farberow, Singfoong Cheah, Seonah Kim, Jeffrey T. Miller, James R. Gallagher, Jesse Hensley, Joshua A. Schaidle and Daniel A. Ruddy, ACS Catal., 7, 5, 3662-3667 (2017).

Understanding Trends in Autoignition of Biofuels: Homologous Series of Oxygenated C5 Molecules, Lintao Bu, Peter N. Ciesielski, David J. Robichaud, Seonah Kim, Robert L. McCormick, Thomas D. Foust, and Mark R. Nimlos, J. Phys. Chem. A, 127, 121, 5475-5486 (2017).

Furan production from glycolaldehyde over HZSM-5, Seonah Kim, Tabitha J. Evans, Calvin Mukarakate, Lintao Bu, Gregg T. Beckham, Mark R. Nimlos, Robert S. Paton and David J. Robichaud, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 4, 5, 2615-2623 (2016).

Carbocation Stability in H-ZSM-5 at High Temperature, Glen A. Ferguson, Lei Cheng, Lintao Bu, Seonah Kim, David J. Robichaud, Mark R. Nimlos, Larry A. Curtiss, Gregg T. Beckham, J. Phys. Chem. A. 119, 11397-11405 (2015).

Ethanol Dehydration in HZSM-5 studied by Density Functional Theory: Evidence for Concerted Process, Seonah Kim†, David J. Robichaud, Gregg T. Beckham, Robert S. Paton, and Mark R. Nimlos†, J. Phys. Chem. A., 119, 15, 3604-3614 (2015)

A Mechanistic Investigation of Acid-Catalyzed Cleavage of Aryl-Ether Linkages: Implications for Lignin Depolymerization in Acidic Environments, Matthew R. Sturgeon*, Seonah Kim*, Kelsey Lawrence, Robert S. Paton, Stephen C. Chmely, Mark Nimlos, Thomas D. Foust, Gregg T. Beckham, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2, 472-485 (2014)

Crystal structure of glycoside hydrolase family 127 β-l-arabinofuranosidase from Bifidobacterium longum, Tasuku Ito*, Kyo Saikawa*, Seonah Kim*, Kiyotaka Fujita, Akihiro Ishiwata, Sophon Kaeothip, Takatoshi Arakawa, Takyoshi Wakagi, Gregg T. Beckhame, Yukishige Ito, Shinya Fushinobu, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 447, 32-37 (2014)

Quantum Mechanical Calculations suggest that Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases employ a Copper-oxyl, Oxygen-rebound Mechanism, Seonah Kim, Mats Sandgren, Jerry Ståhlberg, Robert S. Paton, Gregg T. Beckham, PNAS, 111, 149-154 (2014)

Structural and electronic snapshots during the transition from a Cu(II) to Cu(I) metal center of a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase by X-ray photo-reduction, Mikael Gudmundsson*, Seonah Kim*, Miao Wu*, Takuya Ishida, Majid Hadadd Momeni, Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad, Daniel Lundberg, Antoine Royant, Jerry Ståhlberg, Vincent G.H. Eijsink, Gregg T. Beckham, and Mats Sandgren, JBC, 289, 18782-18792 (2014)

Mechanistic study of a Ru-xantphos catalyst for tandem alcohol dehydrogenation and reductive aryl-ether cleavage, Stephen C. Chmely*, Seonah Kim*, Peter N. Ciesielski, Gonzalo Jimenez-Oses, Robert S. Paton, Gregg T. Beckham, ACS Catal., 3, 963-974 (2013)

Computational Study of Bond Dissociation Enthalpies for a Large Range of Native and Modified Lignins, Seonah Kim, Stephen C. Chmely Mark R. Nimlos, Yannick J. Bomble, Thomas D. Foust, R. S. Paton, and Gregg T. Beckham, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 2846-2852 (2011).