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Arvi Rauk is a researcher affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with specific attention to Materials Chemistry, Physiology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Biomaterials, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

Arvi Rauk's recent publications demonstrate a range of interdisciplinary approaches. These include:

  • Pseudopeptide Amyloid Aggregation Inhibitors: In Silico, Single Molecule and Cell Viability Studies (2021), published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a Glycoconjugated Re(CO)3+ Complex and Its Tendency for CO Release (2025), published in Inorganic Chemistry

Their research often involves collaboration with co-authors such as Morgan Robinson, Jennifer W. Lou, Banafsheh Mehrazma, Michael A. Beazely, and Zoya Leonenko. These collaborations span various specialized topics within their fields of study.

Arvi Rauk publishes regularly in journals associated with molecular sciences and inorganic chemistry, including:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Best Publications

  • A theoretical study of the ethylene-metal bond in complexes between copper(1+), silver(1+), gold(1+), platinum(0) or platinum(2+) and ethylene, based on the Hartree-Fock-Slater transition-state method

    Tom Ziegler;Arvi Rauk

  • Carbon monoxide, carbon monosulfide, molecular nitrogen, phosphorus trifluoride, and methyl isocyanide as .sigma. donors and .pi. acceptors. A theoretical study by the Hartree-Fock-Slater transition-state method

    Tom Ziegler;Arvi Rauk

  • On the calculation of multiplet energies by the hartree-fock-slater method

    Tom Ziegler;Arvi Rauk;Evert J. Baerends

  • The chemistry of Alzheimer's disease.

    Arvi Rauk

  • On the calculation of bonding energies by the Hartree Fock Slater method

    Tom Ziegler;Arvi Rauk

  • Orbital Interaction Theory of Organic Chemistry

    Arvi Rauk

  • Electronic Structure and Inversion Barrier of Ammonia

    Arvi Rauk;Leland C. Allen;Enrico Clementi

  • Radicals and Ions of Glycine: An ab Initio Study of the Structures and Gas-Phase Thermochemistry

    Dake Yu;Arvi Rauk;David A. Armstrong

  • Why is the amyloid beta peptide of Alzheimer's disease neurotoxic?

    Arvi Rauk

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Polyunsaturated Lipid Bilayer Susceptible to Lipid Peroxidation

    Michal Bachar;Patrick Brunelle;D. Peter Tieleman;Arvi Rauk

  • C−H Bond Dissociation Energies of Alkyl Amines: Radical Structures and Stabilization Energies§

    D. D. M. Wayner;K. B. Clark;A. Rauk;D. Yu

  • The electronic structures of tetrahedral oxo-complexes. The nature of the “charge transfer” transitions

    T. Ziegler;A. Rauk;E.J. Baerends

  • Effects of Structure on αC−H Bond Enthalpies of Amino Acid Residues: Relevance to H Transfers in Enzyme Mechanisms and in Protein Oxidation†

    A. Rauk;D. Yu;J. Taylor;G. V. Shustov

  • Oxidative Damage to and by Cysteine in Proteins: An ab Initio Study of the Radical Structures, C−H, S−H, and C−C Bond Dissociation Energies, and Transition Structures for H Abstraction by Thiyl Radicals

    A. Rauk;D. Yu;D. A. Armstrong

  • Semiempirical calculation of barriers to pyramidal inversion for first- and second-row elements

    Arvi Rauk;Joseph D. Andose;Willis G. Frick;Reginald Tang

  • Toward Site Specificity of Oxidative Damage in Proteins: C−H and C−C Bond Dissociation Energies and Reduction Potentials of the Radicals of Alanine, Serine, and Threonine ResiduesAn ab Initio Study

    A. Rauk;and D. Yu;D. A. Armstrong

  • A theoretical study of the Edward–Lemieux effect (the anomeric effect). The stereochemical requirements of adjacent electron pairs and polar bonds

    Saul Wolfe;Arvi Rauk;Luis M. Tel;I. G. Csizmadia

  • Entropies in Solution from Entropies in the Gas Phase

    Bonnie O. Leung;Darren L. Reid;David A. Armstrong;Arvi Rauk

  • Hydrogen bonding and internal rotation barriers of glycine and its zwitterions (hypothetical) in the gas phase

    Dake Yu;David A. Armstrong;Arvi Rauk

  • Molecular dynamics study of the beta amyloid peptide of Alzheimer's disease and its divalent copper complexes.

    Duilio F. Raffa;Arvi Rauk

Frequent Co-Authors

Prasad L. Polavarapu
Prasad L. Polavarapu Vanderbilt University
Tom Ziegler
Tom Ziegler University of Calgary
Leo Radom
Leo Radom University of Sydney
Kurt Mislow
Kurt Mislow Princeton University
Masood Parvez
Masood Parvez University of Calgary
Scott Collins
Scott Collins University of Eastern Finland
Leland C. Allen
Leland C. Allen Princeton University
Saul Wolfe
Saul Wolfe Simon Fraser University
David A. Hrovat
David A. Hrovat University of North Texas
Paul F. Alewood
Paul F. Alewood University of Queensland

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