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Overview

Addy Pross is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on areas within physics, astronomy, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The body of work includes contributions to both theoretical and applied scientific domains.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broad fields, the subfields of study encompass:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Plant Science

The principal research topics covered by Addy Pross focus on:

  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis

The frequent publication venues for Addy Pross include:

  • Life
  • Israel Journal of Chemistry

Frequent collaborations are documented with Robert Pascal, with four joint publications.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Addy Pross include:

  • "On the Chemical Origin of Biological Cognition," 2022, Life
  • "On the Emergence of Autonomous Chemical Systems through Dissipation Kinetics," 2023, Life
  • "How Was Nature Able to Discover Its Own Laws-Twice?", 2021, Life
  • "Mind from Matter: The Chemical Connection," 2023, Israel Journal of Chemistry
  • "COVID-19, Globalization, De-globalization and the Slime Mold's Lessons For Us All," 2020, Israel Journal of Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Extension of Gaussian‐2 (G2) theory to bromine‐ and iodine‐containing molecules: Use of effective core potentials

    Mikhail N. Glukhovtsev;Addy Pross;Mark P. McGrath;Leo Radom

  • A qualitative valence-bond approach to organic reactivity

    Addy Pross;Sason S. Shaik

  • What Is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology

    Addy Pross

  • The single electron shift as a fundamental process in organic chemistry: the relationship between polar and electron-transfer pathways

    Addy Pross

  • Theoretical and physical principles of organic reactivity

    Addy Pross

  • Estimation of the chemical shifts of olefinic protons using additive increments—II : The compilation of additive increments for 43 functional groups

    U.E. Matter;C. Pascual;E. Pretsch;A. Pross

  • The Reactivity—Selectivity Principle and its Mechanistic Applications

    A. Pross

  • A General Approach to Organic Reactivity: The Configuration Mixing Model

    Addy Pross

  • THEORETICAL APPROACH TO SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS. PHENOLS AND PHENOXIDE IONS

    Addy Pross;Leo Radom;Robert W. Taft

  • Toward a general theory of evolution: Extending Darwinian theory to inanimate matter

    Addy Pross

  • SN2 reactivity of CH3X derivatives. A valence bond approach

    Sason S. Shaik;Addy Pross

  • Oxidation of hydrazones with iodine in the presence of base

    A Pross;S Sternhell

  • The performance of B3-LYP density functional theory in describing SN2 reactions at saturated carbon

    Mikhail N. Glukhovtsev;Robert D. Bach;Addy Pross;Addy Pross;Leo Radom

  • Reactivity-selectivity relationships. A quantum-mechanical approach to transition-state structure. Application to the SN2 reaction of benzyl derivatives

    Addy Pross;Sason S. Shaik

  • COMPARISON OF THE ADDITION OF CH3., CH2OH., AND CH2CN. RADICALS TO SUBSTITUTED ALKENES : A THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE REACTION MECHANISM

    Ming Wah Wong;Addy Pross;Leo Radom

  • Is the avoided crossing state a good approximation for the transition state of a chemical reaction? An analysis of Menschutkin and ionic SN2 reactions

    S. Shaik;A. Ioffe;A. C. Reddy;A. Pross

  • A theoretical approach to substituent effects. Structural consequences of methyl hyperconjugation. Methyl tilt angles and carbon-hydrogen bond lengths

    Addy Pross;Leo Radom;Noel V. Riggs

  • Is SN2 Substitution with Inversion of Configuration at Vinylic Carbon Feasible

    Mikhail N. Glukhovtsev;Addy Pross;Leo Radom

  • Thermochemistry of Cyclobutadiene and Tetrahedrane: A High-Level Computational Study

    Mikhail N. Glukhovtsev;Sergei Laiter;Addy Pross

  • Are polar interactions important in the addition of methyl radical to alkenes

    Ming Wah Wong;Addy Pross;Leo Radom

Frequent Co-Authors

Leo Radom
Leo Radom University of Sydney
Sason Shaik
Sason Shaik Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ming Wah Wong
Ming Wah Wong National University of Singapore
Michelle L. Coote
Michelle L. Coote Flinders University
Robert W. Taft
Robert W. Taft University of California, Irvine
Robert D. Bach
Robert D. Bach University of Delaware
Wilhelm Simon
Wilhelm Simon ETH Zurich
Warren J. Hehre
Warren J. Hehre University of California, Irvine
Ernö Pretsch
Ernö Pretsch ETH Zurich
Brian J. Smith
Brian J. Smith QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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