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Moscato D, Mandelli G, Bondanza M, Lipparini F, Conte R, Mennucci B, Ceotto M. Unraveling Water Solvation Effects with Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Semiclassical Vibrational Spectroscopy: The Case of Thymidine. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:8179-8188. [PMID: 38470354 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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We introduce a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics semiclassical method for studying the solvation process of molecules in water at the nuclear quantum mechanical level with atomistic detail. We employ it in vibrational spectroscopy calculations because this is a tool that is very sensitive to the molecular environment. Specifically, we look at the vibrational spectroscopy of thymidine in liquid water. We find that the C═O frequency red shift and the C═C frequency blue shift, experienced by thymidyne upon solvation, are mainly due to reciprocal polarization effects, that the molecule and the water solvent exert on each other, and nuclear zero-point energy effects. In general, this work provides an accurate and practical tool to study quantum vibrational spectroscopy in solution and condensed phase, incorporating high-level and computationally affordable descriptions of both electronic and nuclear problems.
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- Davide Moscato
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi, 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi, 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi, 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi, 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Zhang Y, Wang Y, Xu X, Chen Z, Yang Y. Vibrational Spectra of Highly Anharmonic Water Clusters: Molecular Dynamics and Harmonic Analysis Revisited with Constrained Nuclear-Electronic Orbital Methods. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:9358-9368. [PMID: 38096546 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2023]
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Vibrational spectroscopy is widely used to gain insights into structural and dynamic properties of chemical, biological, and materials systems. Thus, an efficient and accurate method to simulate vibrational spectra is desired. In this paper, we justify and employ a microcanonical molecular simulation scheme to calculate the vibrational spectra of three challenging water clusters: the neutral water dimer (H4O2), the protonated water trimer (H7O3+), and the protonated water tetramer (H9O4+). We find that with the accurate description of quantum nuclear delocalization effects through the constrained nuclear-electronic orbital framework, including vibrational mode coupling effects through molecular dynamics simulations can additionally improve the vibrational spectrum calculations. In contrast, without the quantum nuclear delocalization picture, conventional ab initio molecular dynamics may even lead to less accurate results than harmonic analysis.
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- Yuzhe Zhang
- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Center for Advanced Materials Research, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Kovács DP, Batatia I, Arany ES, Csányi G. Evaluation of the MACE force field architecture: From medicinal chemistry to materials science. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:044118. [PMID: 37522405 DOI: 10.1063/5.0155322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023] Open
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The MACE architecture represents the state of the art in the field of machine learning force fields for a variety of in-domain, extrapolation, and low-data regime tasks. In this paper, we further evaluate MACE by fitting models for published benchmark datasets. We show that MACE generally outperforms alternatives for a wide range of systems, from amorphous carbon, universal materials modeling, and general small molecule organic chemistry to large molecules and liquid water. We demonstrate the capabilities of the model on tasks ranging from constrained geometry optimization to molecular dynamics simulations and find excellent performance across all tested domains. We show that MACE is very data efficient and can reproduce experimental molecular vibrational spectra when trained on as few as 50 randomly selected reference configurations. We further demonstrate that the strictly local atom-centered model is sufficient for such tasks even in the case of large molecules and weakly interacting molecular assemblies.
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- Dávid Péter Kovács
- Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom
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- Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom
- ENS Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SP, United Kingdom
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- Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom
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Xu X. Constrained Nuclear-Electronic Orbital Density Functional Theory with a Dielectric Continuum Solvent Model. J Phys Chem A 2023. [PMID: 37470267 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c02507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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Solvent effects are crucial for simulating chemical and biological processes in solutions. The continuum solvation model is widely used for incorporating solvent effects with different levels of theoretical descriptions of solutes. For solutes and solutions containing hydrogen atoms, nuclear quantum effects can also be nonnegligible for reliable simulations. In this work, we couple our recently developed constrained nuclear-electronic orbital density functional theory with a dielectric continuum solvation model to cover nuclear quantum effects and solvent effects simultaneously. This approach is applied to the formate ion, where an anomalous solvatochromic shift in C-H stretch frequency was reported in experiments. By using this new approach to account for nuclear quantum effects and solvent effects, we show that the vibrational frequency of the C-H stretch and the solvatochromic shift are accurately described.
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- Xi Xu
- Center for Advanced Materials Research, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China
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Wang Y, Chen Z, Yang Y. Calculating Vibrational Excited State Absorptions with Excited State Constrained Minimized Energy Surfaces. J Phys Chem A 2023. [PMID: 37335973 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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The modeling and interpretation of vibrational spectra are crucial for studying reaction dynamics using vibrational spectroscopy. Most prior theoretical developments focused on describing fundamental vibrational transitions while fewer developments focused on vibrational excited state absorptions. In this study, we present a new method that uses excited state constrained minimized energy surfaces (CMESs) to describe vibrational excited state absorptions. The excited state CMESs are obtained similarly to the previous ground state CMES development in our group but with additional wave function orthogonality constraints. Using a series of model systems, including the harmonic oscillator, Morse potential, double-well potential, quartic potential, and two-dimensional anharmonic potential, we demonstrate that this new procedure provides good estimations of the transition frequencies for vibrational excited state absorptions. These results are significantly better than those obtained from harmonic approximations using conventional potential energy surfaces, demonstrating the promise of excited state CMES-based methods for calculating vibrational excited state absorptions in real systems.
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- Yiwen Wang
- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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