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Soriano-Agueda L, Guevara-García A. A refreshing approach to understanding the action on DNA of vanadium (IV) and (V) complexes derived from the anticancer VCp 2Cl 2. J Inorg Biochem 2024; 261:112705. [PMID: 39217821 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2024.112705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2024] [Revised: 08/21/2024] [Accepted: 08/21/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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A computational study based on derivatives of the anticancer VCp2Cl2 compound and their interaction with representative models of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is presented. The derivatives were obtained by substituting the cyclopentadienes of VCp2Cl2 with H2O, NH3, OH-, Cl-, O2- and C2O42- ligands. The oxidation states IV and V of vanadium were considered, so a total of 20 derivative complexes are included. The complexes interactions with DNA were studied using two different models, the first model considers the interactions of the complexes with the pair Guanine-Cytosine (G-C) and the second involves the interaction of the complexes with adjacent pairs, that is, d(GG). This study compares methodologies based on density functional theory with coupled cluster like calculations (DLPNO-CCSD(T)), the gold standard of electronic structure methods. Furthermore, the change in the electron density of the hydrogen bonds that keep bonded the G-C pair and d(GG) pairs, due to the presence of vanadium (IV) and (V) complexes is rationalize. To this aim, quantities obtained from the topology of the electron densities are inspected, particularly the value of the electron density at the hydrogen bond critical points. The approach allowed to identify vanadium complexes that lead to significant changes in the hydrogen bonds indicated above, a key aspect in the understanding, development, and proposal of mechanisms of action between metal complexes and DNA.
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- Luis Soriano-Agueda
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), 20018 Donostia, Euskadi, Spain.
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- Departamento de Química, CONAHCYT-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Av. San Rafael Atlixco 186, Leyes de Reforma 1ra Secc, Iztapalapa, 09340 Ciudad de México, México
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Anni D, Amika Mbema JC, Malloum A, Conradie J. Hydration of [Formula: see text]aminobenzoic acid: structures and non-covalent bondings of aminobenzoic acid-water clusters. J Mol Model 2024; 30:38. [PMID: 38214749 PMCID: PMC10786749 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-023-05810-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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CONTEXT Micro-hydration of the aminobenzoic acid is essential to understand its interaction with surrounding water molecules. Understanding the micro-hydration of the aminobenzoic acid is also essential to study its remediation from wastewater. Therefore, we explored the potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the para-aminobenzoic acid-water clusters, ABW[Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], to study the microsolvation of the aminobenzoic acid in water. In addition, we performed a quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) analysis to identify the nature of non-covalent bondings in the aminobenzoic acid-water clusters. Furthermore, temperature effects on the stability of the located isomers have been examined. The located structures have been used to calculate the hydration free energy and the hydration enthalpy of the aminobenzoic acid using the cluster continuum solvation model. The hydration free energy and the hydration enthalpy of the aminobenzoic acid at room temperature are evaluated to be -7.0 kcal/mol and -18.1 kcal/mol, respectively. The hydration enthalpy is in perfect agreement with a previous experimental estimate. Besides, temperature effects on the calculated hydration enthalpy and free energy are reported. Finally, we calculated the gas phase binding energies of the most stable structures of the ABW[Formula: see text] clusters using twelve functionals of density functional theory (DFT), including empirical dispersion. The DFT functionals are benchmarked against the DLPNO-CCSD(T)/CBS. We have found that the three most suitable DFT functionals are classified in the following order: PW6B95D3 > MN15 > [Formula: see text]B97XD. Therefore, the PW6B95D3 functional is recommended for further study of the aminobenzoic acid-water clusters and similar systems. METHODS The exploration started with classical molecular dynamics simulations followed by complete optimization at the PW6B95D3/def2-TZVP level of theory. Optimizations are performed using Gaussian 16 suite of codes. QTAIM analysis is performed using the AIMAll program.
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- Diane Anni
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon.
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037, Tromsø, Norway
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Structures of DMSO clusters and quantum cluster equilibrium (QCE). J Mol Graph Model 2024; 126:108661. [PMID: 37913567 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2023.108661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) clusters are crucial for understanding processes in liquid DMSO. Despite its importance, DMSO clusters have received negligible attention due to the complexity of their potential energy surfaces (PESs). In this work, we explored the PESs of the DMSO clusters from dimer to decamer, starting with classical molecular dynamics, followed by full optimizations at the PW6B95-D3/def2-TZVP level of theory. In addition, the binding energies, the binding enthalpy per DMSO, and the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) analysis of the most stable isomers are reported. Temperature effects on the stability of the isomers have also been assessed. After thoroughly exploring the PESs of the DMSO clusters, 159 configurations have been used to apply the quantum cluster equilibrium (QCE) theory to liquid DMSO. The quantum cluster equilibrium theory has been applied to determine the liquid properties of DMSO from DMSO clusters. Thus, using the QCE, the population of the liquid DMSO, its infrared spectrum, and some thermodynamic properties of the liquid DMSO are predicted. The QCE results show that the population of the liquid DMSO is mainly dominated by the DMSO dimer and decamer, with the contribution in trace of the DMSO monomer, trimer, tetramer, pentamer, and octamer. More interestingly, the predicted infrared spectrum of liquid DMSO is in qualitative agreement with the experiment.
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- Alhadji Malloum
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Mounra E, Malloum A, Fifen JJ, Conradie J. Adsorption of some cationic dyes onto two models of graphene oxide. J Mol Model 2023; 29:380. [PMID: 37979000 PMCID: PMC10657294 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-023-05761-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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CONTEXT The search for highly efficient adsorbent materials remains a significant requirement in the field of adsorption for wastewater treatment. Computational study can highly contribute to the identification of efficient material. In this work, we propose a computational approach to study the adsorption of four cationic basic dyes, basic blue 26 (BB26), basic green 1 (BG1), basic yellow 2 (BY2), and basic red 1 (BR1), onto two models of graphene oxide as adsorbents. The main objectives of this study are the assessment of the adsorption capacity of the graphene oxide towards basic dyes and the evaluation of the environmental and temperature effects on the adsorption capacity. Quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) analysis has been used to understand the interactions between the dyes and graphene oxides. In addition, adsorption free energies of the dyes onto graphene oxides are calculated in gas and solvent phases for temperatures varying from 200 to 400 K. As a result, the adsorption free energy varies linearly depending on the temperature, highlighting the importance of temperature effects in the adsorption processes. Furthermore, the results indicate that the environment (through the solvation) considerably affects the calculated adsorption free energies. Overall, the results show that the two models of graphene oxide used in this work are efficient for removing dyes from wastewater. METHODS We have optimized the complexes formed by the interaction of dyes with graphene oxides at the PW6B95-D3/def2-SVP level of theory. The SMD solvation model realizes the implicit solvation, and water is used as the solvent. Calculations are performed using the Gaussian 16 suite of program. QTAIM analysis is performed using the AIMAll program. Gibbs free energies as function of temperature are calculated using the TEMPO program.
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- Emma Mounra
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Ngaoundere, PO BOX 454, Ngaoundere, Cameroon
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa.
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon.
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Ngaoundere, PO BOX 454, Ngaoundere, Cameroon
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037, Tromsø, Norway
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Reyna-Luna J, Soriano-Agueda L, Vera CJ, Franco-Pérez M. Insights into the coordination chemistry of antineoplastic doxorubicin with 3d-transition metal ions Zn 2+, Cu 2+, and VO 2+: a study using well-calibrated thermodynamic cycles and chemical interaction quantum chemistry models. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2023:10.1007/s10822-023-00506-4. [PMID: 37245168 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-023-00506-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We present a computational strategy based on thermodynamic cycles to predict and describe the chemical equilibrium between the 3d-transition metal ions Zn2+, Cu2+, and VO2+ and the widely used antineoplastic drug doxorubicin. Our method involves benchmarking a theoretical protocol to compute gas-phase quantities using DLPNO Coupled-Cluster calculations as reference, followed by estimating solvation contributions to the reaction Gibbs free energies using both explicit partial (micro)solvation steps for charged solutes and neutral coordination complexes, as well as a continuum solvation procedure for all solutes involved in the complexation process. We rationalized the stability of these doxorubicin-metal complexes by inspecting quantities obtained from the topology of their electron densities, particularly the bond critical points and non-covalent interaction index. Our approach allowed us to identify representative species in solution phase, infer the most likely complexation process for each case, and identify key intramolecular interactions involved in the stability of these compounds. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study reporting thermodynamic constants for the complexation of doxorubicin with transition metal ions. Unlike other methods, our procedure is computationally affordable for medium-sized systems and provides valuable insights even with limited experimental data. Furthermore, it can be extended to describe the complexation process between 3d-transition metal ions and other bioactive ligands.
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- Julieta Reyna-Luna
- Departamento de Física y Química Teórica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cd. Universitaria, 04510, Ciudad de Mexico, México
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- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), 20018, Donostia, Euskadi, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Modelado y Simulación Computacional en Nanomedicina, Escuela Superior de Apan, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Carretera Apan-Calpulalpan S/N, Colonia, 43920, Chimalpa Tlalayote, Hgo, México
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- Departamento de Física y Química Teórica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cd. Universitaria, 04510, Ciudad de Mexico, México.
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Microsolvation of phenol in water: structures, hydration free energy and enthalpy. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2022.2163674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Alhadji Malloum
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, Maroua, Cameroon
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Department of Chemistry, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Hydrogen bond networks of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) pentamer. J Mol Graph Model 2023; 118:108363. [PMID: 36308947 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Understanding of clusters of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) is important in several applications in Chemistry. Despite its importance, very few studies of DMSO clusters, (DMSO)n, have been reported in comparison to systems such as water clusters or methanol clusters. In order to provide further understanding of DMSO clusters, we investigated the structures and non-covalent interactions of the (DMSO)n, n=5. Therefore, the potential energy surface (PES) of the DMSO pentamer has been examined using classical molecular dynamics. The structures generated using classical molecular dynamics are further optimized at the PW6B95D3/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. To comprehend the non-covalent bondings in the DMSO pentamer, we carried out a quantum theory of atoms in molecule (QTAIM) analysis. In addition, the effects of temperature on the structural stability is investigated between 20 and 500K. It comes out that seven different kind of non-covalent bondings can be found in DMSO pentamers.
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- Alhadji Malloum
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Adsorption free energy of phenol onto coronene: Solvent and temperature effects. J Mol Graph Model 2023; 118:108375. [PMID: 36423517 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Molecular modeling can considerably speed up the discovery of materials with high adsorption capacity for wastewater treatment. Despite considerable efforts in computational studies, the molecular modeling of adsorption processes has several limitations in reproducing experimental conditions. Handling the environmental effects (solvent effects) and the temperature effects are part of the important limitations in the literature. In this work, we address these two limitations using the adsorption of phenol onto coronene as case study. In the proposed model, for the solvent effects, we used a hybrid solvation model, with n explicit water molecules and implicit solvation. We increasingly used n=1 to n=12 explicit water molecules. To account for the temperature effects, we evaluated the adsorption efficiency using the adsorption free energy for temperatures varying from 200 to 400K. We generated initial configurations using classical molecular dynamics, before further optimisation at the ωB97XD/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. Polarisable continuum solvation model (PCM) is used for the implicit solvation. The adsorption free energy is evaluated to be -1.3kcal/mol at room temperature. It has been found that the adsorption free energy is more negative at low temperatures. Above 360K, the adsorption free energy is found to be positive.
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- Alhadji Malloum
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Molecular simulations of the adsorption of aniline from waste-water. J Mol Graph Model 2022; 117:108287. [PMID: 35969938 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Molecular simulations of adsorption processes have received considerable attention. Despite the attention, exploration of the literature shows serious limitations, among which solvent and temperature effects are the most important. In this work, we propose a computational approach to study the adsorption of aniline (as an example of pollutant) from wastewater using coronene as adsorbent. We identified all possible adsorption sites using classical molecular dynamics for further optimization at the ωB97XD/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. Three different solvation schemes have been explored: implicit solvation of aniline + coronene, explicit solvation of aniline + coronene, and implicit-explicit solvation of aniline + coronene. For the explicit solvation, we used six water molecules, while the implicit solvation is performed using the PCM (polarizable continuum medium) solvation model. For each of the four cases (gas phase and the three solvation schemes), the adsorption free energy is evaluated as function of temperature from 200 K to 400 K. The results show that solvation has a considerable effects on the adsorption free energy. Furthermore, we noted that the adsorption free energy varies from -39.5 kJ mol-1 at 200 K to 27.7 kJ mol-1 at 400 K using the implicit-explicit solvation of aniline + coronene. This result highlights the importance of considering temperature effects in molecular simulations study of adsorption processes.
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- Alhadji Malloum
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa; Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037, Tromsø, Norway
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Dimethylformamide clusters: non-covalent bondings, structures and temperature-dependence. Mol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2118188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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- Alhadji Malloum
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, Maroua, Cameroon
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Department of Chemistry, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) Clusters Dataset: DFT Relative Energies, Non-Covalent Interactions, and Cartesian Coordinates. Data Brief 2022; 42:108024. [PMID: 35313495 PMCID: PMC8933536 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Revised: 03/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Theoretical understanding of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) liquid depends on the understanding of the DMSO clusters. In this work, we provide the structures and the energetics of the DMSO clusters. The structures have been generated using ABCluster and further optimized at the MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. The final structures have been optimized at two different levels of theory: PW6B95D3/aug-cc-pVDZ and ωB97XD/aug-cc-pVDZ. The Cartesian coordinates of the structures optimized at the MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory are also reported. The relative energies of the structures can be used to locate the most favorable structures of the DMSO clusters. The Cartesian coordinates of the structures can be used for further investigations on DMSO clusters. In addition, we report the data related to the quantum theory of atoms in molecule (QTAIM) analysis of the investigated clusters. The QTAIM data reported in this work can be used to understand and determine the nature of non-covalent interactions in DMSO clusters. For further reading and discussion on the data reported here, please report to the original manuscript Malloum and Conradie (2022) [1].
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