Symmetry in Chemical Physics: Applications in Molecular and Biomolecular Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Chemical physics is an area that is characterized by its rigor and formality in its approaches, supported by theories and laws that enable a more detailed understanding of the molecular structure, its properties and the processes that take place. It is a science that has expanded in recent years with contributions from biology, chemistry, physics, computation, mathematics, providing an increasingly interesting multidisciplinary spectrum of science. It particularly highlights one of the intrinsic properties of many systems such as symmetry, extended to structures, properties, geometries and all those responses of molecular and biomolecular systems.

From chemistry, physics, biochemistry, biophysics, theoretical chemistry, studies are addressed for a better understanding of optical, photonic, spintronic processes, and all those related to the understanding of molecules and biomolecules.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the study of processes, mechanisms and properties at the molecular and biomolecular level, where aspects of symmetry play an important role. It provides an advanced space for molecular biology, theoretical and computational chemistry, computational chemistry–biophysics, biochemistry, with an emphasis on physicochemical aspects and symmetry. Additionally, in this Special Issue, there is great interest in the studies that involve the shape and symmetry of biomolecules and their relevance in biological recognition in physiological environments and under macromolecular crowding.

Prof. Dr. José Luis Paz
Prof. Dr. Ysaías J. Alvarado
Guest Editors

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