Biological catalysis frequently causes changes in noncovalent bonding. By building on Pauling's assertion that any long-lived, chemically distinct interaction is a chemical bond, this article redefines enzyme catalysis as the facilitated making and/or breaking of chemical bonds, not just of covalent bonds. It is also argued that nearly every ATPase or GTPase is misnamed as a hydrolase and actua...

In this paper, I will look at the rather convoluted discovery process which gave birth to the concept of the shared electron pair bond as developed by G.N. Lewis, to be subsequently appropriated by the American founders of quantum chemistry, and highlight the complex relations between conceptual development and the different contexts in which ideas are created and presented. I will show how the...

Multiconfigurational quantum chemical methods (CASSCF/CASPT2) have been used to study the chemical bond in the actinide diatoms Ac2, Th2, Pa2, and U2. Scalar relativistic effects and spin−orbit coupling have been included in the calculations. In the Ac2 and Th2 diatoms the atomic 6d, 7s, and 7p orbitals are the significant contributors to the bond, while for the two heavier diatoms, the 5f orbi...

geometrical structure, nuclear magnetic resonance (n1,1it) chemical shielding tensors, and chemical shiftsof silicon and carbon nucler are investigated for twn infinite size zigzag and armchair single-walled siliconcarbide nanotabes (sicnts). geometrical structures of sients, sit bonds and bond angles of st and cvertices in both zigzag and armchair nanotubes, indicate that bond lengths are appr...

the influence of cation-π interactions on the strength and nature of intramolecular o...h hydrogen bond has been investigated by quantum chemical calculations in orthohydroxy benzaldehyde (hba) compound. ab initio calculations have been performed at mp2/6-311++g** level of theory. vibrational frequencies and physical properties such as chemical potential and chemical hardness of these compounds...