Designing templates for the synthesis of microporous solids using de novo molecular design methods

De novo design techniques are used to grow (computationally) candidate template molecules for specific microporous materials. Detailed studies are reported for both EU-1 and chabazite where our simulations are able to rationalise known templates and suggest new templating molecules for the synthesis of such structures.

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