Positively charged carbon electrocatalyst for enhanced power performance of L-ascorbic acid fuel cells

Carbon surface with large oxygen and carbon ratio(O/C) indicated an outstanding electro-catalytic activity toward L-ascorbic acid oxidation, compared to platinum group metals. However, interrelation of surface functional groups and its electro-catalytic activity is still unclear. In this paper, we prepared different levels of oxidized carbons by a simple acid treatment and investigated the correlation between the surface oxygen functional groups of acid-treated carbon and electro-catalytic activity in an electrooxidation of L-ascorbic acid. Positively charged carbon was demonstrated by lone pair electron of oxygen from valence band spectra study. It was revealed that the positively charged carbon, especially involved in carbonyl, showed enhanced the electro-catalytic activity through both better adsorption of negatively charged reactants and lowered LUMO by electronegativity of oxygen.

Quantitative structure-property relationship of aromatic sulfur-containing carboxylates

Based on quantum chemical calculations, TLSER model(theoretical linear solvation energy relationships) and atomic charge approach were applied to model the partition properties(water solubility and octanol/water partition coefficient) of 96 aromatic sulfur-containing carboxylates, including phenylthio, phenylsulfinyl and phenylsulfonyl carboxylates. In comparison with TLSER models, the atomic charge models are more accurate and reliable to predict the partition properties of the kind of compounds. For the atomic charge models, the molecular descriptors are molecular surface area(S), molecular shape(O), weight(M W), net charges on carboxyl group(Q OC), net charges of nitrogen atoms(Q N), and the most negative atomic charge(q -) of the solute molecule. For water solubility(log S W) and octanol/water partition coefficient(log K OW), the correction coefficients r 2 adj(adjusted for degrees of freedom) are 0.936 and 0.938, and the standard deviations are 0.364 and 0.223, respectively.

Comparative Studies on Two 1,8-Naphthalimide Derivatives with Experimental and Theoretical Methods

Two 1,8-naphthalimide derivatives of 7H-benzimidazo[2,1,-a]benz[de] isoquino- lin-7-one（1） and 4-bromo-7H-benzimidazo[2,1,-a]benz[de]isoquinolin-7-one（2） have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR, 1H NMR, UV-Vis and fluorescence spectra. For the two compounds, density functional theory（DFT） calculations of the structures and natural population atomic charge analysis have been performed at the B3LYP/6-311G＊＊ level of theory. Based on Onsager reaction filed model and by using TD-DFT method at the B3LYP/6-311G＊＊ level, electron spectra of 1 and 2 with solvent effect in CHCl3 solvent have been predicted, which are in agreement with the experimental ones. Comparative studies on 1 and 2 indicate that introducing an electron-withdrawing group of Br into the 4-position of naphthalene ring in 2 does not significantly make the molecular geometry of 2 different from that of 1, but evidently changes the atomic charge redistribution, moves the positive-negative charges center and then changes the dipole moment in 2. Additionally, for compound 2, the existence of Br atom has also influenced the peak intensity and peak locations in both electron and fluorescence spectra.

Synthesis, Insecticidal Assay and Molecular Docking Study of Novel Neonicotinoids N-Oxide Analogues

Eight novel neonicotinoids N-oxide analogues were designed and synthesized. All the compounds have been identified by 1H NMR and HRMS. The N-oxide analogues exhibit high insecticidal activity against cowpea aphids （Aphis craccivora） at 250 mg,L-1. The influence of N-oxide formation on the biological activity was elucidated by computational chemical study, and it indicated that the water bridge hydrogen bonding network was broken due to the influence of the O atom connected with the pyridine ring.

Investigation on the computation of atomic multipole moments with the modified cumulative potential-derived semiempiricalmethod

The suitability of calculating atomic multipole moments from AM1 wave functions by cumulative potential-derived method has been investigated. It is shown that this method has a faster convergence of the fitting process and gives a better description of the charge distribution than the original PD method. Atomic charges obtained in this way are of comparable quality with 6-31G* data and the calculated dipole moments are closer to the experimental data than the values computed directly from the AM1 charges. The results demonstrate that the atomic multipole moments higher than monopole moment can be used to supplement the atomic charge to obtain a more accurate description of charge distribution. For the sake of comparison, both the Williams fitting potential surface and the Connolly one are used in the calculation.