Automated Building of Organometallic Complexes from 3D Fragments
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A method for the automated construction of three-dimensional (3D) molecular models of organometallic species in design studies is described. Molecular structure fragments derived from crystallographic structures and accurate molecular-level calculations are used as 3D building blocks in the construction of multiple molecular models of analogous compounds. The method allows for precise control of stereochemistry and geometrical features that may otherwise be very challenging, or even impossible, to achieve with commonly available generators of 3D chemical structures. The new method was tested in the construction of three sets of active or metastable organometallic species of catalytic reactions in the homogeneous phase. The performance of the method was compared with those of commonly available methods for automated generation of 3D models, demonstrating higher accuracy of the prepared 3D models in general, and, in particular, a much wider range with respect to the kind of chemical structures that can be built automatically, with capabilities far beyond standard organic and main-group chemistry.
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- Authors
- Foscato, M., Venkatraman, V., Occhipinti, G., Alsberg, B. K., & Jensen, V. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Bergen (NO)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Jensen, Vidar R.
- Venue
- Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2014-07-16
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1919-1931
- ISSN
- 1549-9596 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-960X
- OpenAlex
- W1999992320
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 72
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 4
- FWCI
- 3.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- The Research Council of Norway (205273/V30, 208335/E30, NN2506K, NS2506K)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Keywords
- organometallic complexes, stereocontrol, molecular geometry, homogeneous catalysis
- MeSH terms
- Automation, Models, Molecular, Molecular Conformation, Organometallic Compounds, Quantum Theory, Crystallography, X-Ray
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