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Beyond the typical role of solvent

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State-of-the-art quantum simulations predict that solvent molecules may partner with a solute in solution to form stable chemically distinct coordination species that interconvert from one to another. The solvent would thus be directly implicated in chemical reactions.

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Fig. 1: Sketch of the free energy profile of the sodium dimer in tetrahydrofuran predicted by mixed quantum-classical molecular dynamics.

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Peslherbe, G.H. Beyond the typical role of solvent. Nature Chem 10, 899–900 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0130-8

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