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Galvez Vallejo JL, Snowdon C, Stocks R, Kazemian F, Yan Yu FC, Seidl C, Seeger Z, Alkan M, Poole D, Westheimer BM, Basha M, De La Pierre M, Rendell A, Izgorodina EI, Gordon MS, Barca GMJ. Toward an extreme-scale electronic structure system. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:044112. [PMID: 37497819 DOI: 10.1063/5.0156399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Electronic structure calculations have the potential to predict key matter transformations for applications of strategic technological importance, from drug discovery to material science and catalysis. However, a predictive physicochemical characterization of these processes often requires accurate quantum chemical modeling of complex molecular systems with hundreds to thousands of atoms. Due to the computationally demanding nature of electronic structure calculations and the complexity of modern high-performance computing hardware, quantum chemistry software has historically failed to operate at such large molecular scales with accuracy and speed that are useful in practice. In this paper, novel algorithms and software are presented that enable extreme-scale quantum chemistry capabilities with particular emphasis on exascale calculations. This includes the development and application of the multi-Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) library LibCChem 2.0 as part of the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System package and of the standalone Extreme-scale Electronic Structure System (EXESS), designed from the ground up for scaling on thousands of GPUs to perform high-performance accurate quantum chemistry calculations at unprecedented speed and molecular scales. Among various results, we report that the EXESS implementation enables Hartree-Fock/cc-pVDZ plus RI-MP2/cc-pVDZ/cc-pVDZ-RIFIT calculations on an ionic liquid system with 623 016 electrons and 146 592 atoms in less than 45 min using 27 600 GPUs on the Summit supercomputer with a 94.6% parallel efficiency.
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- School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia
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- School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia
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- School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia
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- School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia
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- School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton 3800, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, USA
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- Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
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- School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia
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Sahu N, Khire SS, Gadre SR. Combining fragmentation method and high-performance computing: Geometry optimization and vibrational spectra of proteins. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:044309. [PMID: 37522406 DOI: 10.1063/5.0149572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023] Open
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Exploring the structures and spectral features of proteins with advanced quantum chemical methods is an uphill task. In this work, a fragment-based molecular tailoring approach (MTA) is appraised for the CAM-B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ-level geometry optimization and vibrational infrared (IR) spectra calculation of ten real proteins containing up to 407 atoms and 6617 basis functions. The use of MTA and the inherently parallel nature of the fragment calculations enables a rapid and accurate calculation of the IR spectrum. The applicability of MTA to optimize the protein geometry and evaluate its IR spectrum employing a polarizable continuum model with water as a solvent is also showcased. The typical errors in the total energy and IR frequencies computed by MTA vis-à-vis their full calculation (FC) counterparts for the studied protein are 5-10 millihartrees and 5 cm-1, respectively. Moreover, due to the independent execution of the fragments, large-scale parallelization can also be achieved. With increasing size and level of theory, MTA shows an appreciable advantage in computer time as well as memory and disk space requirement over the corresponding FCs. The present study suggests that the geometry optimization and IR computations on the biomolecules containing ∼1000 atoms and/or ∼15 000 basis functions using MTA and HPC facility can be clearly envisioned in the near future.
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- Nityananda Sahu
- Theoretische Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
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- Departments of Scientific Computing, Modelling & Simulation and Chemistry, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007, India
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Chen WK, Fang WH, Cui G. Extending multi-layer energy-based fragment method for excited-state calculations of large covalently bonded fragment systems. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:044110. [PMID: 36725521 DOI: 10.1063/5.0129458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Recently, we developed a low-scaling Multi-Layer Energy-Based Fragment (MLEBF) method for accurate excited-state calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of nonbonded fragment systems. In this work, we extend the MLEBF method to treat covalently bonded fragment ones. The main idea is cutting a target system into many fragments according to chemical properties. Fragments with dangling bonds are first saturated by chemical groups; then, saturated fragments, together with the original fragments without dangling bonds, are grouped into different layers. The accurate total energy expression is formulated with the many-body energy expansion theory, in combination with the inclusion-exclusion principle that is used to delete the contribution of chemical groups introduced to saturate dangling bonds. Specifically, in a two-layer MLEBF model, the photochemically active and inert layers are calculated with high-level and efficient electronic structure methods, respectively. Intralayer and interlayer energies can be truncated at the two- or three-body interaction level. Subsequently, through several systems, including neutral and charged covalently bonded fragment systems, we demonstrate that MLEBF can provide accurate ground- and excited-state energies and gradients. Finally, we realize the structure, conical intersection, and path optimizations by combining our MLEBF program with commercial and free packages, e.g., ASE and SciPy. These developments make MLEBF a practical and reliable tool for studying complex photochemical and photophysical processes of large nonbonded and bonded fragment systems.
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- Wen-Kai Chen
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Liu J, He X. Recent advances in quantum fragmentation approaches to complex molecular and condensed‐phase systems. WIRES COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jinfeng Liu
- Department of Basic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing China
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University Shanghai China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University Shanghai China
- New York University‐East China Normal University Center for Computational Chemistry New York University Shanghai Shanghai China
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Liao K, Dong S, Cheng Z, Li W, Li S. Combined fragment-based machine learning force field with classical force field and its application in the NMR calculations of macromolecules in solutions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:18559-18567. [PMID: 35916054 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02192g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have developed a combined fragment-based machine learning (ML) force field and molecular mechanics (MM) force field for simulating the structures of macromolecules in solutions, and then compute its NMR chemical shifts with the generalized energy-based fragmentation (GEBF) approach at the level of density functional theory (DFT). In this work, we first construct Gaussian approximation potential based on GEBF subsystems of macromolecules for MD simulations and then a GEBF-based neural network (GEBF-NN) with deep potential model for the studied macromolecule. Then, we develop a GEBF-NN/MM force field for macromolecules in solutions by combining the GEBF-NN force field for the solute molecule and ff14SB force field for solvent molecules. Using the GEBF-NN/MM MD simulation to generate snapshot structures of solute/solvent clusters, we then perform the NMR calculations with the GEBF approach at the DFT level to calculate NMR chemical shifts of the solute molecule. Taking a heptamer of oligopyridine-dicarboxamides in chloroform solution as an example, our results show that the GEBF-NN force field is quite accurate for this heptamer by comparing with the reference DFT results. For this heptamer in chloroform solution, both the GEBF-NN/MM and classical MD simulations could lead to helical structures from the same initial extended structure. The GEBF-DFT NMR results indicate that the GEBF-NN/MM force field could lead to more accurate NMR chemical shifts on hydrogen atoms by comparing with the experimental NMR results. Therefore, the GEBF-NN/MM force field could be employed for predicting more accurate dynamical behaviors than the classical force field for complex systems in solutions.
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- Kang Liao
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China.
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Li J, Yanagisawa K, Yoshikawa Y, Ohue M, Akiyama Y. Plasma protein binding prediction focusing on residue-level features and circularity of cyclic peptides by deep learning. Bioinformatics 2021; 38:1110-1117. [PMID: 34849593 PMCID: PMC8796384 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION In recent years, cyclic peptide drugs have been receiving increasing attention because they can target proteins that are difficult to be tackled by conventional small-molecule drugs or antibody drugs. Plasma protein binding rate (%PPB) is a significant pharmacokinetic property of a compound in drug discovery and design. However, due to structural differences, previous computational prediction methods developed for small-molecule compounds cannot be successfully applied to cyclic peptides, and methods for predicting the PPB rate of cyclic peptides with high accuracy are not yet available. RESULTS Cyclic peptides are larger than small molecules, and their local structures have a considerable impact on PPB; thus, molecular descriptors expressing residue-level local features of cyclic peptides, instead of those expressing the entire molecule, as well as the circularity of the cyclic peptides should be considered. Therefore, we developed a prediction method named CycPeptPPB using deep learning that considers both factors. First, the macrocycle ring of cyclic peptides was decomposed residue by residue. The residue-based descriptors were arranged according to the sequence information of the cyclic peptide. Furthermore, the circular data augmentation method was used, and the circular convolution method CyclicConv was devised to express the cyclic structure. CycPeptPPB exhibited excellent performance, with mean absolute error (MAE) of 4.79% and correlation coefficient (R) of 0.92 for the public drug dataset, compared to the prediction performance of the existing PPB rate prediction software (MAE=15.08%, R=0.63). AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The data underlying this article are available in the online supplementary material. The source code of CycPeptPPB is available at https://github.com/akiyamalab/cycpeptppb. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Jianan Li
- Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan,AIST-TokyoTech Real World Big-Data Computation Open Innovation Laboratory (RWBC-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8560, Japan
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- Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan,Middle-Molecule IT-based Drug Discovery Laboratory (MIDL), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 210-0821, Japan
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- Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan,Middle-Molecule IT-based Drug Discovery Laboratory (MIDL), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 210-0821, Japan
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- Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan,Middle-Molecule IT-based Drug Discovery Laboratory (MIDL), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 210-0821, Japan
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Han Y, Wang Z, Wei Z, Liu J, Li J. Machine learning builds full-QM precision protein force fields in seconds. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:6279287. [PMID: 34017993 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Full-quantum mechanics (QM) calculations are extraordinarily precise but difficult to apply to large systems, such as biomolecules. Motivated by the massive demand for efficient calculations for large systems at the full-QM level and by the significant advances in machine learning, we have designed a neural network-based two-body molecular fractionation with conjugate caps (NN-TMFCC) approach to accelerate the energy and atomic force calculations of proteins. The results show very high precision for the proposed NN potential energy surface models of residue-based fragments, with energy root-mean-squared errors (RMSEs) less than 1.0 kcal/mol and force RMSEs less than 1.3 kcal/mol/Å for both training and testing sets. The proposed NN-TMFCC method calculates the energies and atomic forces of 15 representative proteins with full-QM precision in 10-100 s, which is thousands of times faster than the full-QM calculations. The computational complexity of the NN-TMFCC method is independent of the protein size and only depends on the number of residue species, which makes this method particularly suitable for rapid prediction of large systems with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times acceleration. This highly precise and efficient NN-TMFCC approach exhibits considerable potential for performing energy and force calculations, structure predictions and molecular dynamics simulations of proteins with full-QM precision.
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- Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids of Ministry of Education, Anhui Normal University, China
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- Key Laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication of Ministry of Education, Department of Micro/Nano Electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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Tripathy V, Saha A, Raghavachari K. Electrostatically embedded molecules-in-molecules approach and its application to molecular clusters. J Comput Chem 2021; 42:719-734. [PMID: 33586802 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2020] [Revised: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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We report the application of our fragment-based quantum chemistry model MIM (Molecules-In-Molecules) with electrostatic embedding. The method is termed "EE-MIM (Electrostatically Embedded Molecules-In-Molecules)" and accounts for the missing electrostatic interactions in the subsystems resulting from fragmentation. Point charges placed at the atomic positions are used to represent the interaction of each subsystem with the rest of the molecule with minimal increase in the computational cost. We have carefully calibrated this model on a range of different sizes of clusters containing up to 57 water molecules. The fragmentation methods have been applied with the goal of reproducing the unfragmented total energy at the MP2/6-311G(d,p) level. Comparative analysis has been carried out between MIM and EE-MIM to gauge the impact of electrostatic embedding. Performance of several different parameters such as the type of charge and levels of fragmentation are analyzed for the prediction of absolute energies. The use of background charges in subsystem calculations improves the performance of both one- and two-layer MIM while it is noticeably important in the case of one-layer MIM. Embedded charges for two-layer MIM are obtained from a full system calculation at the low-level. For one-layer MIM, in the absence of a full system calculation, two different types of embedded charges, namely, Geometry dependent (GD) and geometry independent (GI) charges, are used. A self-consistent procedure is employed to obtain GD charges. We have further tested our method on challenging charged systems with stronger intermolecular interactions, namely, protonated ammonia clusters (containing up to 30 ammonia molecules). The observations are similar to water clusters with improved performance using embedded charges. Overall, the performance of NPA charges as embedded charges is found to be the best.
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- Vikrant Tripathy
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Chandy SK, Thapa B, Raghavachari K. Accurate and cost-effective NMR chemical shift predictions for proteins using a molecules-in-molecules fragmentation-based method. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:27781-27799. [PMID: 33244526 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp05064d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have developed an efficient protocol using our two-layer Molecules-in-Molecules (MIM2) fragmentation-based quantum chemical method for the prediction of NMR chemical shifts of large biomolecules. To investigate the performance of our fragmentation approach and demonstrate its applicability, MIM-NMR calculations are first calibrated on a test set of six proteins. The MIM2-NMR method yields a mean absolute deviation (MAD) from unfragmented full molecule calculations of 0.01 ppm for 1H and 0.06 ppm for 13C chemical shifts. Thus, the errors from fragmentation are only about 3% of our target accuracy of ∼0.3 ppm for 1H and 2-3 ppm for 13C chemical shifts. To compare with experimental chemical shifts, a standard protocol is first derived using two smaller proteins 2LHY (176 atoms) and 2LI1 (146 atoms) for obtaining an appropriate protein structure for NMR chemical shift calculations. The effect of the solvent environment on the calculated NMR chemical shifts is incorporated through implicit, explicit, or explicit-implicit solvation models. The expensive first solvation shell calculations are replaced by a micro-solvation model in which only the immediate interaction between the protein and the explicit solvation environment is considered. A single explicit water molecule for each amine and amide proton is found to be sufficient to yield accurate results for 1H chemical shifts. The 1H and 13C NMR chemical shifts calculated using our protocol give excellent agreement with experiments for two larger proteins, 2MC5 (the helical part with 265 atoms) and 3UMK (33 residue slice with 547 atoms). Overall, our target accuracy of ∼0.3 ppm for 1H and ∼2-3 ppm for 13C has been achieved for the larger proteins. The proposed MIM-NMR method is accurate and computationally cost-effective and should be applicable to study a wide range of large proteins.
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- Sruthy K Chandy
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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Liu J, He X. Fragment-based quantum mechanical approach to biomolecules, molecular clusters, molecular crystals and liquids. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:12341-12367. [PMID: 32459230 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01095b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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To study large molecular systems beyond the system size that the current state-of-the-art ab initio electronic structure methods could handle, fragment-based quantum mechanical (QM) approaches have been developed over the past years, and proved to be efficient in dealing with large molecular systems at various ab initio levels. According to the fragmentation approach, a large molecular system can be divided into subsystems (fragments), and subsequently the property of the whole system can be approximately obtained by taking a proper combination of the corresponding terms of individual fragments. Therefore, the standard QM calculation of a large system could be circumvented by carrying out a series of calculations on small fragments, which significantly promotes computational efficiency. The electrostatically embedded generalized molecular fractionation with conjugate caps (EE-GMFCC) method is one of the fragment-based QM approaches which has been developed by our research group in recent years. This Perspective presents the theoretical framework of this fragmentation method and its applications in biomolecules, molecular clusters, molecular crystals and liquids, including total energy calculation, protein-ligand/protein binding affinity prediction, geometry optimization, vibrational spectrum simulation, ab initio molecular dynamics simulation, and prediction of excited-state properties.
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- Jinfeng Liu
- Department of Basic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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Wang Z, Han Y, Li J, He X. Combining the Fragmentation Approach and Neural Network Potential Energy Surfaces of Fragments for Accurate Calculation of Protein Energy. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:3027-3035. [PMID: 32208716 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c01370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Accurate and efficient all-atom quantum mechanical (QM) calculations for biomolecules still present a challenge to computational physicists and chemists. In this study, an extensible generalized molecular fractionation with a conjugate caps method combined with neural networks (NN-GMFCC) is developed for efficient QM calculation of protein energy. In the NN-GMFCC scheme, the total energy of a given protein is calculated by taking a proper combination of the high-precision neural network potential energies of all capped residues and overlapping conjugate caps. In addition, the two-body interaction energies of residue pairs are calculated by molecular mechanics (MM). With reference to the GMFCC/MM calculation at the ωB97XD/6-31G* level, the overall mean unsigned errors of the energy deviations and atomic force root-mean-squared errors calculated by NN-GMFCC are only 2.01 kcal/mol and 0.68 kcal/mol/Å, respectively, for 14 proteins (containing up to 13,728 atoms). Meanwhile, the NN-GMFCC approach is about 4 orders of magnitude faster than the GMFCC/MM method. The NN-GMFCC method could be systematically improved by inclusion of two-body QM interaction and multibody electronic polarization effect. Moreover, the NN-GMFCC approach can also be applied to other macromolecular systems such as DNA/RNA, and it is capable of providing a powerful and efficient approach for exploration of structures and functions of proteins with QM accuracy.
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- Zhilong Wang
- Key Laboratory of Thin Film and Micro Fabrication, Ministry of Education, Department of Micro/Nano-electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Key Laboratory of Thin Film and Micro Fabrication, Ministry of Education, Department of Micro/Nano-electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Key Laboratory of Thin Film and Micro Fabrication, Ministry of Education, Department of Micro/Nano-electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai 200062, China
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He N, Evangelista FA. A zeroth-order active-space frozen-orbital embedding scheme for multireference calculations. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:094107. [PMID: 33480706 DOI: 10.1063/1.5142481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Multireference computations of large-scale chemical systems are typically limited by the computational cost of quantum chemistry methods. In this work, we develop a zeroth-order active space embedding theory [ASET(0)], a simple and automatic approach for embedding any multireference dynamical correlation method based on a frozen-orbital treatment of the environment. ASET(0) is combined with the second-order multireference driven similarity renormalization group and tested on several benchmark problems, including the excitation energy of 1-octene and bond-breaking in ethane and pentyldiazene. Finally, we apply ASET(0) to study the singlet-triplet gap of p-benzyne and 9,10-anthracyne diradicals adsorbed on a NaCl surface. Our results show that despite its simplicity, ASET(0) is a powerful and sufficiently accurate embedding scheme applicable when the coupling between the fragment and the environment is in the weak to medium regime.
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- Nan He
- Department of Chemistry, Cherry Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Cherry Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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QM Implementation in Drug Design: Does It Really Help? Methods Mol Biol 2020. [PMID: 32016884 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0282-9_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/13/2023]
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Computational chemistry allows one to characterize the structure, dynamics, and energetics of protein-ligand interactions, which makes it a valuable tool in drug discovery in both academic research and pharmaceutical industry. Molecular mechanics (MM)-based approaches are widely utilized to assist the discovery of new drug candidates. However, the complexity of protein-ligand interactions challenges the accuracy and efficiency of the commonly used empirical methods. Aiming to provide better accuracy in the description of protein-ligand interactions, quantum mechanics (QM)-based approaches are becoming increasingly explored. In principle, QM calculation includes all contributions to the energy, accounting for terms usually missing in empirical force fields, and provides a greater degree of transferability. The usefulness of QM in drug design cannot be overemphasized. In this chapter, we present recent developments and applications of fragment-based QM method in studying the protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions. We critically discuss the performance of the fragment-based QM method at different ab initio levels while trying to answer a critical question: do QM-based methods really help in drug design?
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Patel P, Wang J, Wilson AK. Prediction of pK a s of Late Transition-Metal Hydrides via a QM/QM Approach. J Comput Chem 2020; 41:171-183. [PMID: 31495951 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26057] [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: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Three implicit solvation models, the conductor-like polarizable continuum model (C-PCM), the conductor-like screening model (COSMO), and universal implicit solvent model (SMD), combined with a hybrid two layer QM/QM approach (ONIOM), were utilized to calculate the pKa values, using a direct thermodynamic scheme, of a set of Group 10 transition metal (TM) hydrides in acetonitrile. To obtain the optimal combination of quantum methods for ONIOM calculations with implicit solvation models, the influence of factors, such as the choice of density functional and basis set, the atomic radii used to build a cavity in the solvent, and the size of the model system in an ONIOM scheme, was examined. Additionally, the impact of Grimme's empirical dispersion correction and exact exchange was also investigated. The results were calibrated by experimental data. This investigation provides insight about effective models for the prediction of thermodynamic properties of TM-containing complexes with bulky ligands. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Prajay Patel
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM), University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 76203-5017.,Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824-1322
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM), University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 76203-5017.,Department of Chemistry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, 100083
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM), University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 76203-5017.,Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824-1322
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Liu J, Rana B, Liu KY, Herbert JM. Variational Formulation of the Generalized Many-Body Expansion with Self-Consistent Charge Embedding: Simple and Correct Analytic Energy Gradient for Fragment-Based ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:3877-3886. [PMID: 31251619 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The many-body expansion (MBE) and its extension to overlapping fragments, the generalized (G)MBE, constitute the theoretical basis for most fragment-based approaches for large-scale quantum chemistry. We reformulate the GMBE for use with embedding charges determined self-consistently from the fragment wave functions, in a manner that preserves the variational nature of the underlying self-consistent field method. As a result, the analytic gradient retains the simple "sum of fragment gradients" form that is often assumed in practice, sometimes incorrectly. This obviates (without approximation) the need to solve coupled-perturbed equations, and we demonstrate stable, fragment-based ab initio molecular dynamics simulations using this technique. Energy conservation fails when charge-response contributions to the Fock matrix are neglected, even while geometry optimizations and vibrational frequency calculations may yet be accurate. Stable simulations can be recovered by means of straightforward modifications introduced here, providing a general paradigm for fragment-based ab initio molecular dynamics.
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- Jie Liu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , The Ohio State University , Columbus , Ohio 43210 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , The Ohio State University , Columbus , Ohio 43210 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , The Ohio State University , Columbus , Ohio 43210 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , The Ohio State University , Columbus , Ohio 43210 , United States
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Liu J, Sun H, Glover WJ, He X. Prediction of Excited-State Properties of Oligoacene Crystals Using Fragment-Based Quantum Mechanical Method. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:5407-5417. [PMID: 31187994 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b12552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A fundamental understanding of the excited-state properties of molecular crystals is of central importance for their optoelectronics applications. In this study, we developed the electrostatically embedded generalized molecular fractionation (EE-GMF) method for the quantitative characterization of the excited-state properties of locally excited molecular clusters. The accuracy of the EE-GMF method is systematically assessed for oligoacene crystals. Our result demonstrates that the EE-GMF method is capable of providing the lowest vertical singlet (S1) and triplet excitation energies (T1), in excellent agreement with the full-system quantum mechanical calculations. Using this method, we also investigated the performance of different density functionals in predicting the excited-state properties of the oligoacene crystals. Among the 13 tested functionals, B3LYP and MN15 give the two lowest overall mean unsigned errors with reference to the experimental S1 and T1 excitation energies. The EE-GMF approach can be readily utilized for studying the excited-state properties of large-scale organic solids at diverse ab initio levels.
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- Jinfeng Liu
- Department of Basic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy , China Pharmaceutical University , Nanjing 210009 , China
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- NYU Shanghai , Shanghai 200122 , China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai , Shanghai 200062 , China.,Department of Chemistry , New York University , New York , New York 10003 , United States
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- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai , Shanghai 200062 , China
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Hermes MR, Gagliardi L. Multiconfigurational Self-Consistent Field Theory with Density Matrix Embedding: The Localized Active Space Self-Consistent Field Method. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 15:972-986. [PMID: 30620876 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b01009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Density matrix embedding theory (DMET) is a fully quantum-mechanical embedding method which shows great promise as a method of defeating the inherent exponential cost scaling of multiconfigurational wave function-based calculations by breaking large systems into smaller, coupled subsystems. However, we recently [ Pham et al. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2018 , 14 , 1960 .] encountered evidence that the approximate single-determinantal bath picture inherent to DMET is sometimes problematic when the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) is used as a solver and the method is applied to realistic models of strongly correlated molecules. Here, we show this problem can be defeated by generalizing DMET to use a multiconfigurational wave function as a bath without sacrificing practically attractive features of DMET, such as a second-quantization form of the embedded subsystem Hamiltonian, by dividing the active space into unentangled active subspaces each localized to one fragment. We introduce the term localized active space (LAS) to refer to this kind of wave function. The LAS bath wave function can be obtained by the DMET algorithm itself in a self-consistent manner, and we refer to this approach, introduced here for the first time, as the localized active space self-consistent field (LASSCF) method. LASSCF exploits a modified DMET algorithm, but it is a variational wave function method; it does not require DMET's ambiguous error function minimization, and it reproduces full-molecule CASSCF in cases where comparable DMET calculations fail. Our results for test calculations on the nitrogen double-bond dissociation potential energy curves of several diazene molecules suggest that LASSCF can be an appropriate starting point for a perturbative treatment. Outside of the context of embedding, the LAS wave function is inherently an attractive alternative to a CAS wave function because of its favorable cost scaling, which is exponential only with respect to the size of individual fragment active subspaces, rather than the whole active space of the entire system.
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- Matthew R Hermes
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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Debnath S, Sengupta A, Jose KVJ, Raghavachari K. Fragment-Based Approaches for Supramolecular Interaction Energies: Applications to Foldamers and Their Complexes with Anions. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:6226-6239. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Sibali Debnath
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Klimaczewski CV, Nogara PA, Barbosa NV, da Rocha JBT. Interaction of metals from group 10 (Ni, Pd, and Pt) and 11 (Cu, Ag, and Au) with human blood δ-ALA-D: in vitro and in silico studies. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 25:30557-30566. [PMID: 30173384 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-018-3048-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Mammalian δ-aminolevulinate dehydratase (δ-ALA-D) is a metalloenzyme, which requires Zn(II) and reduced thiol groups for catalytic activity, and is an important molecular target for the widespread environmental toxic metals. The δ-ALA-D inhibition mechanism by metals of Group 10 (Ni, Pd, and Pt) and 11 (Cu, Ag, and Au) of the periodic table has not yet been determined. The objective of this study was to characterize the molecular mechanism of δ-ALA-D inhibition caused by the elements of groups 10 and 11 using in vitro (δ-ALA-D activity from human erythrocytes) and in silico (docking simulations) methods. Our results showed that Ni(II) and Pd(II) caused a small inhibition (~ 10%) of the δ-ALA-D. Pt(II) and Pt(IV) significantly inhibited the enzyme (75% and 44%, respectively), but this inhibition was attenuated by Zn(II) and dithiothreitol (DTT). In group 11, all metals inhibited δ-ALA-D with great potency (~ 70-90%). In the presence of Zn(II) and DTT, the enzyme activity was restored to the control levels. The in silico molecular docking data suggest that the coordination of the ions Pt(II), Pt(IV), Cu(II), Ag(I), and Au(III) with thiolates groups from C135 and C143 residues from the δ-ALA-D active site are crucial to the enzyme inhibition. The results indicate that a possible mechanism of inhibition of δ-ALA-D by these metals may involve the replacement of the Zn(II) from the active site and/or the cysteinyl residue oxidation.
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- Cláudia Vargas Klimaczewski
- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Bioquímica Toxicológica, Santa Maria, RS, 97115-900, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
- Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Bioquímica Toxicológica, Santa Maria, RS, 97115-900, Brazil.
- Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
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Dohn AO, Jónsson EÖ, Levi G, Mortensen JJ, Lopez-Acevedo O, Thygesen KS, Jacobsen KW, Ulstrup J, Henriksen NE, Møller KB, Jónsson H. Grid-Based Projector Augmented Wave (GPAW) Implementation of Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) Electrostatic Embedding and Application to a Solvated Diplatinum Complex. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:6010-6022. [PMID: 29083921 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A multiscale density functional theory-quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (DFT-QM/MM) scheme is presented, based on an efficient electrostatic coupling between the electronic density obtained from a grid-based projector augmented wave (GPAW) implementation of density functional theory and a classical potential energy function. The scheme is implemented in a general fashion and can be used with various choices for the descriptions of the QM or MM regions. Tests on H2O clusters, ranging from dimer to decamer show that no systematic energy errors are introduced by the coupling that exceeds the differences in the QM and MM descriptions. Over 1 ns of liquid water, Born-Oppenheimer QM/MM molecular dynamics (MD) are sampled combining 10 parallel simulations, showing consistent liquid water structure over the QM/MM border. The method is applied in extensive parallel MD simulations of an aqueous solution of the diplatinum [Pt2(P2O5H2)4]4- complex (PtPOP), spanning a total time period of roughly half a nanosecond. An average Pt-Pt distance deviating only 0.01 Å from experimental results, and a ground-state Pt-Pt oscillation frequency deviating by <2% from experimental results were obtained. The simulations highlight a remarkable harmonicity of the Pt-Pt oscillation, while also showing clear signs of Pt-H hydrogen bonding and directional coordination of water molecules along the Pt-Pt axis of the complex.
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- A O Dohn
- Faculty of Physical Sciences and Science Institute, University of Iceland , 107 Reykjavı́k, Iceland
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- Faculty of Physical Sciences and Science Institute, University of Iceland , 107 Reykjavı́k, Iceland
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- CAMD, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University , 02150 Espoo, Finland
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- CAMD, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- CAMD, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Faculty of Physical Sciences and Science Institute, University of Iceland , 107 Reykjavı́k, Iceland.,Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University , 02150 Espoo, Finland
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Zhang L, Li W, Fang T, Li S. Accurate Relative Energies and Binding Energies of Large Ice–Liquid Water Clusters and Periodic Structures. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:4030-4038. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b03376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lei Zhang
- Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry
of MOE, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry
of MOE, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry
of MOE, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry
of MOE, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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Liu J, Qi LW, Zhang JZH, He X. Fragment Quantum Mechanical Method for Large-Sized Ion–Water Clusters. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:2021-2034. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Jinfeng Liu
- State
Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Department of Basic Medicine
and Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Department of Basic Medicine
and Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- School
of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, 200062, China
- Department
of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States
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- School
of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, 200062, China
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Jose KVJ, Raghavachari K. Fragment-Based Approach for the Evaluation of NMR Chemical Shifts for Large Biomolecules Incorporating the Effects of the Solvent Environment. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:1147-1158. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- K. V. Jovan Jose
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Saha A, Raghavachari K. Analysis of Different Fragmentation Strategies on a Variety of Large Peptides: Implementation of a Low Level of Theory in Fragment-Based Methods Can Be a Crucial Factor. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 11:2012-23. [PMID: 26574406 DOI: 10.1021/ct501045s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
We have investigated the performance of two classes of fragmentation methods developed in our group (Molecules-in-Molecules (MIM) and Many-Overlapping-Body (MOB) expansion), to reproduce the unfragmented MP2 energies on a test set composed of 10 small to large biomolecules. They have also been assessed to recover the relative energies of different motifs of the acetyl(ala)18NH2 system. Performance of different bond-cutting environments and the use of Hartree-Fock and different density functionals (as a low level of theory) in conjunction with the fragmentation strategies have been analyzed. Our investigation shows that while a low level of theory (for recovering long-range interactions) may not be necessary for small peptides, it provides a very effective strategy to accurately reproduce the total and relative energies of larger peptides such as the different motifs of the acetyl(ala)18NH2 system. Employing M06-2X as the low level of theory, the calculated mean total energy deviation (maximum deviation) in the total MP2 energies for the 10 molecules in the test set at MIM(d=3.5Å), MIM(η=9), and MOB(d=5Å) are 1.16 (2.31), 0.72 (1.87), and 0.43 (2.02) kcal/mol, respectively. The excellent performance suggests that such fragment-based methods should be of general use for the computation of accurate energies of large biomolecular systems.
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- Arjun Saha
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University , Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University , Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Zhang L, Li W, Fang T, Li S. Ab initio molecular dynamics with intramolecular noncovalent interactions for unsolvated polypeptides. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-015-1799-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Liu J, Herbert JM. Pair-Pair Approximation to the Generalized Many-Body Expansion: An Alternative to the Four-Body Expansion for ab Initio Prediction of Protein Energetics via Molecular Fragmentation. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:572-84. [PMID: 26730608 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We introduce a "pair-pair" approximation to the generalized many-body expansion (pp-GMBE) as an approximation to a traditional four-body expansion, the latter of which is accurate but quickly becomes numerically unstable and ultimately intractable as the number of "bodies" (fragments) increases. The pp-GMBE method achieves a good balance between accuracy and efficiency by defining significant fragment pairs and then fragment quartets. An efficient fragmentation scheme is introduced for proteins such that the largest subsystems contain about 60 atoms. Application of the pp-GMBE method to proteins with as many as 70 amino acids (1142 atoms) reveals that pp-GMBE energies are quite faithful to those obtained when the same level of density functional theory is applied to the entire macromolecule. When combined with embedding charges obtained from natural population analysis, the pp-GMBE approach affords absolute energies that differ by 1-3 kcal/mol from full supersystem results, but it yields conformational energy profiles that are practically indistinguishable from the supersystem calculation at the same level of theory.
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- Jie Liu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University , Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University , Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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Yuan D, Shen X, Li W, Li S. Are fragment-based quantum chemistry methods applicable to medium-sized water clusters? Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:16491-500. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01931e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The GEBF method is demonstrated to be more accurate than the EE-MB method for medium-sized water clusters.
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- Dandan Yuan
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing
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Liu J, Zhang JZH, He X. Fragment quantum chemical approach to geometry optimization and vibrational spectrum calculation of proteins. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:1864-75. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp05693d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Geometry optimization and vibrational spectra (infrared and Raman spectra) calculations of proteins are carried out by a quantum chemical approach using the EE-GMFCC (electrostatically embedded generalized molecular fractionation with conjugate caps) method (J. Phys. Chem. A, 2013, 117, 7149).
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- Jinfeng Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Science
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Science
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Science
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
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Jovan Jose K, Raghavachari K. Molecules-in-molecules fragment-based method for the evaluation of Raman spectra of large molecules. Mol Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2015.1074744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Odoh SO, Cramer CJ, Truhlar DG, Gagliardi L. Quantum-Chemical Characterization of the Properties and Reactivities of Metal–Organic Frameworks. Chem Rev 2015; 115:6051-111. [DOI: 10.1021/cr500551h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Samuel O. Odoh
- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Raghavachari K, Saha A. Accurate Composite and Fragment-Based Quantum Chemical Models for Large Molecules. Chem Rev 2015; 115:5643-77. [PMID: 25849163 DOI: 10.1021/cr500606e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Krishnan Raghavachari
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Jose KVJ, Raghavachari K. Evaluation of Energy Gradients and Infrared Vibrational Spectra through Molecules-in-Molecules Fragment-Based Approach. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:950-61. [DOI: 10.1021/ct501026m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- K. V. Jovan Jose
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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He X, Zhu T, Wang X, Liu J, Zhang JZH. Fragment quantum mechanical calculation of proteins and its applications. Acc Chem Res 2014; 47:2748-57. [PMID: 24851673 DOI: 10.1021/ar500077t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Conspectus The desire to study molecular systems that are much larger than what the current state-of-the-art ab initio or density functional theory methods could handle has naturally led to the development of novel approximate methods, including semiempirical approaches, reduced-scaling methods, and fragmentation methods. The major computational limitation of ab initio methods is the scaling problem, because the cost of ab initio calculation scales nth power or worse with system size. In the past decade, the fragmentation approach based on chemical locality has opened a new door for developing linear-scaling quantum mechanical (QM) methods for large systems and for applications to large molecular systems such as biomolecules. The fragmentation approach is highly attractive from a computational standpoint. First, the ab initio calculation of individual fragments can be conducted almost independently, which makes it suitable for massively parallel computations. Second, the electron properties, such as density and energy, are typically combined in a linear fashion to reproduce those for the entire molecular system, which makes the overall computation scale linearly with the size of the system. In this Account, two fragmentation methods and their applications to macromolecules are described. They are the electrostatically embedded generalized molecular fractionation with conjugate caps (EE-GMFCC) method and the automated fragmentation quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (AF-QM/MM) approach. The EE-GMFCC method is developed from the MFCC approach, which was initially used to obtain accurate protein-ligand QM interaction energies. The main idea of the MFCC approach is that a pair of conjugate caps (concaps) is inserted at the location where the subsystem is divided by cutting the chemical bond. In addition, the pair of concaps is fused to form molecular species such that the overcounted effect from added concaps can be properly removed. By introducing the electrostatic embedding field in each fragment calculation and two-body interaction energy correction on top of the MFCC approach, the EE-GMFCC method is capable of accurately reproducing the QM molecular properties (such as the dipole moment, electron density, and electrostatic potential), the total energy, and the electrostatic solvation energy from full system calculations for proteins. On the other hand, the AF-QM/MM method was used for the efficient QM calculation of protein nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) parameters, including the chemical shift, chemical shift anisotropy tensor, and spin-spin coupling constant. In the AF-QM/MM approach, each amino acid and all the residues in its vicinity are automatically assigned as the QM region through a distance cutoff for each residue-centric QM/MM calculation. Local chemical properties of the central residue can be obtained from individual QM/MM calculations. The AF-QM/MM approach precisely reproduces the NMR chemical shifts of proteins in the gas phase from full system QM calculations. Furthermore, via the incorporation of implicit and explicit solvent models, the protein NMR chemical shifts calculated by the AF-QM/MM method are in excellent agreement with experimental values. The applications of the AF-QM/MM method may also be extended to more general biological systems such as DNA/RNA and protein-ligand complexes.
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- Xiao He
- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai 200062, China
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Li S, Li W, Ma J. Generalized energy-based fragmentation approach and its applications to macromolecules and molecular aggregates. Acc Chem Res 2014; 47:2712-20. [PMID: 24873495 DOI: 10.1021/ar500038z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Conspectus The generalized energy-based fragmentation (GEBF) approach provides a very simple way of approximately evaluating the ground-state energy or properties of a large system in terms of ground-state energies of various small "electrostatically embedded" subsystems, which can be calculated with any traditional ab initio quantum chemistry (X) method (X = Hartree-Fock, density functional theory, and so on). Due to its excellent parallel efficiency, the GEBF approach at the X theory level (GEBF-X) allows full quantum mechanical (QM) calculations to be accessible for systems with hundreds and even thousands of atoms on ordinary workstations. The implementation of the GEBF approach at various theoretical levels can be easily done with existing quantum chemistry programs. This Account reviews the methodology, implementation, and applications of the GEBF-X approach. This method has been successfully applied to optimize the structures of various large systems including molecular clusters, polypeptides, proteins, and foldamers. Such investigations could allow us to elucidate the origin and nature of the cooperative interaction in secondary structures of long peptides or the driving force of the self-assembly processes of aromatic oligoamides. These GEBF-based QM calculations reveal that the structures and stability of various complex systems result from a subtle balance of many types of noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions. The GEBF-based ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) method also allows the investigation of dynamic behaviors of large systems on the order of tens of picoseconds. It was demonstrated that the conformational dynamics of two model peptides predicted by GEBF-based AIMD are noticeably different from those predicted by the classical force field MD method. With the target of extending QM calculations to molecular aggregates in the condensed phase, we have implemented the GEBF-based multilayer hybrid models, which could provide satisfactory descriptions of the binding energies between a solute molecule and its surrounding waters and the chain-length dependence of the conformational changes of oligomers in aqueous solutions. A coarse-grained polarizable molecular mechanics model, furnished with GEBF-X dipole moments of subsystems, exhibits some advantages of treating the electrostatic polarization with reduced computational costs. We anticipate that the GEBF approach will continue to develop with the ultimate goal of studying complicated phenomena at mesoscopic scales and serve as a practical tool to elucidate the structure and dynamics of chemical and biological systems.
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- Shuhua Li
- School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China
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Wang B, Yang KR, Xu X, Isegawa M, Leverentz HR, Truhlar DG. Quantum mechanical fragment methods based on partitioning atoms or partitioning coordinates. Acc Chem Res 2014; 47:2731-8. [PMID: 24841937 DOI: 10.1021/ar500068a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Conspectus The development of more efficient and more accurate ways to represent reactive potential energy surfaces is a requirement for extending the simulation of large systems to more complex systems, longer-time dynamical processes, and more complete statistical mechanical sampling. One way to treat large systems is by direct dynamics fragment methods. Another way is by fitting system-specific analytic potential energy functions with methods adapted to large systems. Here we consider both approaches. First we consider three fragment methods that allow a given monomer to appear in more than one fragment. The first two approaches are the electrostatically embedded many-body (EE-MB) expansion and the electrostatically embedded many-body expansion of the correlation energy (EE-MB-CE), which we have shown to yield quite accurate results even when one restricts the calculations to include only electrostatically embedded dimers. The third fragment method is the electrostatically embedded molecular tailoring approach (EE-MTA), which is more flexible than EE-MB and EE-MB-CE. We show that electrostatic embedding greatly improves the accuracy of these approaches compared with the original unembedded approaches. Quantum mechanical fragment methods share with combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods the need to treat a quantum mechanical fragment in the presence of the rest of the system, which is especially challenging for those parts of the rest of the system that are close to the boundary of the quantum mechanical fragment. This is a delicate matter even for fragments that are not covalently bonded to the rest of the system, but it becomes even more difficult when the boundary of the quantum mechanical fragment cuts a bond. We have developed a suite of methods for more realistically treating interactions across such boundaries. These methods include redistributing and balancing the external partial atomic charges and the use of tuned fluorine atoms for capping dangling bonds, and we have shown that they can greatly improve the accuracy. Finally we present a new approach that goes beyond QM/MM by combining the convenience of molecular mechanics with the accuracy of fitting a potential function to electronic structure calculations on a specific system. To make the latter practical for systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, we developed a method to interpolate between local internal-coordinate fits to the potential energy. A key issue for the application to large systems is that rather than assigning the atoms or monomers to fragments, we assign the internal coordinates to reaction, secondary, and tertiary sets. Thus, we make a partition in coordinate space rather than atom space. Fits to the local dependence of the potential energy on tertiary coordinates are arrayed along a preselected reaction coordinate at a sequence of geometries called anchor points; the potential energy function is called an anchor points reactive potential. Electrostatically embedded fragment methods and the anchor points reactive potential, because they are based on treating an entire system by quantum mechanical electronic structure methods but are affordable for large and complex systems, have the potential to open new areas for accurate simulations where combined QM/MM methods are inadequate.
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- Bo Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Richard RM, Lao KU, Herbert JM. Understanding the many-body expansion for large systems. I. Precision considerations. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:014108. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4885846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Ryan M. Richard
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Rusinska-Roszak D, Sowinski G. Estimation of the intramolecular O-H···O═C hydrogen bond energy via the molecular tailoring approach. Part I: aliphatic structures. J Chem Inf Model 2014; 54:1963-77. [PMID: 24921685 DOI: 10.1021/ci500107w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A simple and universal method for the estimation of the intramolecular hydrogen bond (HB) energy (E(HB)) in hydroxycarbonyl aliphatic compounds is proposed by the application of the molecular tailoring approach (MTA) based on calculations at the second-order Møller-Plesset MP2 level. The calculation of EHB can be realized by the one optimization and three single point calculations of the energy for each compound with carbonyl and hydroxyl groups involved in HB. The intramolecular hydrogen bond energies estimated for 153 structures (of 102 compounds) ranged from 1.4 to 13.7 kcal/mol for systems without resonance-assisted hydrogen bonding (RAHB). To verify the method, we show the correlations of the energy (E(HB)) in six-, seven-, and eight-membered HB rings in the optimized multifunctional molecules with the usual geometry descriptors of hydrogen bonds. Moreover, topological parameters from the atoms in molecules (AIM) theory and the calculated infrared and proton NMR spectra are correlated. The effects of conjugation and π-electron delocalization, bifurcation, and cooperativity are discussed, along with the correlation between the strength and geometrical parameters of H bonding.
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- Danuta Rusinska-Roszak
- Institute of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Poznan University of Technology , Pl. M. Sklodowskiej-Curie 2, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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Marenich AV, Ho J, Coote ML, Cramer CJ, Truhlar DG. Computational electrochemistry: prediction of liquid-phase reduction potentials. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:15068-106. [PMID: 24958074 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp01572j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 314] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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This article reviews recent developments and applications in the area of computational electrochemistry. Our focus is on predicting the reduction potentials of electron transfer and other electrochemical reactions and half-reactions in both aqueous and nonaqueous solutions. Topics covered include various computational protocols that combine quantum mechanical electronic structure methods (such as density functional theory) with implicit-solvent models, explicit-solvent protocols that employ Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics simulations (for example, Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics using the grand canonical ensemble formalism), and the Marcus theory of electronic charge transfer. We also review computational approaches based on empirical relationships between molecular and electronic structure and electron transfer reactivity. The scope of the implicit-solvent protocols is emphasized, and the present status of the theory and future directions are outlined.
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- Aleksandr V Marenich
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0431, USA.
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Wang K, Li W, Li S. Generalized Energy-Based Fragmentation CCSD(T)-F12a Method and Application to the Relative Energies of Water Clusters (H2O)20. J Chem Theory Comput 2014; 10:1546-53. [DOI: 10.1021/ct401060m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Kedong Wang
- School
of Physics and Electronical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, People’s Repubic of China
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Friedrich J, Yu H, Leverentz HR, Bai P, Siepmann JI, Truhlar DG. Water 26-mers Drawn from Bulk Simulations: Benchmark Binding Energies for Unprecedentedly Large Water Clusters and Assessment of the Electrostatically Embedded Three-Body and Pairwise Additive Approximations. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:666-670. [PMID: 26270834 DOI: 10.1021/jz500079e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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It is important to test methods for simulating water, but small water clusters for which benchmarks are available are not very representative of the bulk. Here we present benchmark calculations, in particular CCSD(T) calculations at the complete basis set limit, for water 26-mers drawn from Monte Carlo simulations of bulk water. These clusters are large enough that each water molecule participates in 2.5 hydrogen bonds on average. The electrostatically embedded three-body approximation with CCSD(T) embedded dimers and trimers reproduces the relative binding energies of eight clusters with a mean unsigned error (MUE, kcal per mole of water molecules) of only 0.009 and 0.015 kcal for relative and absolute binding energies, respectively. Using only embedded dimers (electrostatically embedded pairwise approximation) raises these MUEs to 0.038 and 0.070 kcal, and computing the energies with the M11 exchange-correlation functional, which is very economical, yields errors of only 0.029 and 0.042 kcal.
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- Joachim Friedrich
- Institute for Chemistry, Chemnitz University of Technology, Straße der Nationen 62, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Institute for Chemistry, Chemnitz University of Technology, Straße der Nationen 62, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Institute for Chemistry, Chemnitz University of Technology, Straße der Nationen 62, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Institute for Chemistry, Chemnitz University of Technology, Straße der Nationen 62, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Institute for Chemistry, Chemnitz University of Technology, Straße der Nationen 62, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Institute for Chemistry, Chemnitz University of Technology, Straße der Nationen 62, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Barnes TA, Goodpaster JD, Manby FR, Miller TF. Accurate basis set truncation for wavefunction embedding. J Chem Phys 2014; 139:024103. [PMID: 23862925 DOI: 10.1063/1.4811112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Density functional theory (DFT) provides a formally exact framework for performing embedded subsystem electronic structure calculations, including DFT-in-DFT and wavefunction theory-in-DFT descriptions. In the interest of efficiency, it is desirable to truncate the atomic orbital basis set in which the subsystem calculation is performed, thus avoiding high-order scaling with respect to the size of the MO virtual space. In this study, we extend a recently introduced projection-based embedding method [F. R. Manby, M. Stella, J. D. Goodpaster, and T. F. Miller III, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 8, 2564 (2012)] to allow for the systematic and accurate truncation of the embedded subsystem basis set. The approach is applied to both covalently and non-covalently bound test cases, including water clusters and polypeptide chains, and it is demonstrated that errors associated with basis set truncation are controllable to well within chemical accuracy. Furthermore, we show that this approach allows for switching between accurate projection-based embedding and DFT embedding with approximate kinetic energy (KE) functionals; in this sense, the approach provides a means of systematically improving upon the use of approximate KE functionals in DFT embedding.
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- Taylor A Barnes
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Klippenstein SJ, Pande VS, Truhlar DG. Chemical Kinetics and Mechanisms of Complex Systems: A Perspective on Recent Theoretical Advances. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:528-46. [DOI: 10.1021/ja408723a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Stephen J. Klippenstein
- Chemical
Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Saha A, Raghavachari K. Dimers of Dimers (DOD): A New Fragment-Based Method Applied to Large Water Clusters. J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 10:58-67. [DOI: 10.1021/ct400472v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Arjun Saha
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Jia X, Wang X, Liu J, Zhang JZH, Mei Y, He X. An improved fragment-based quantum mechanical method for calculation of electrostatic solvation energy of proteins. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:214104. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4833678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ramabhadran RO, Raghavachari K. Extrapolation to the Gold-Standard in Quantum Chemistry: Computationally Efficient and Accurate CCSD(T) Energies for Large Molecules Using an Automated Thermochemical Hierarchy. J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 9:3986-94. [PMID: 26592394 DOI: 10.1021/ct400465q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The CCSD(T) method is known as the gold-standard in quantum chemistry and has been the method of choice in quantum chemistry for over 20 years to obtain accurate bond energies and molecular properties. Its computational cost formally scales as the seventh power of the size of the system and can be prohibitive for large molecules. As part of our efforts to reduce the computational cost of the CCSD(T) method yet retain its accuracy, we present a simple, efficient, and user-friendly protocol to extrapolate to CCSD(T) energies in conjunction with MP2 energies. The method is based on the automated error-canceling thermochemical hierarchy previously developed by us called the Connectivity-Based Hierarchy (CBH). For a test set containing 30 diverse nonaromatic organic molecules and biomonomers, we obtain highly accurate extrapolated CCSD(T) energies (with a mean absolute error of only 0.2-0.3 kcal/mol with different basis-set). Additionally, the work also features the successful extrapolation to CCSD energies using a similar protocol.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University , Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Kurbanov EK, Leverentz HR, Truhlar DG, Amin EA. Analysis of the Errors in the Electrostatically Embedded Many-Body Expansion of the Energy and the Correlation Energy for Zn and Cd Coordination Complexes with Five and Six Ligands and Use of the Analysis to Develop a Generally Successful Fragmentation Strategy. J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 9:2617-2628. [PMID: 23814509 DOI: 10.1021/ct4001872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In the present paper, we apply the electrostatically embedded many-body expansion of the correlation energy (EE-MB-CE) to the calculation of zinc-ligand and cadmium-ligand bond dissociation energies, and we analyze the errors due to various fragmentation schemes in a variety of neutral, positively charged, and negatively charged Zn2+ and Cd2+ coordination complexes. As a result of the analysis, we are able to present a new, simple, and unambiguous fragmentation strategy. Following this strategy, we show that both methods perform well for zinc-ligand and cadmium-ligand bond dissociation energies for all systems studied in the paper, including a model of the catalytic site of the zinc-bearing anthrax toxin lethal factor (LF), which has garnered substantial attention as a target for drug development. To draw general conclusions we consider ten pentacoordinate and hexacoordinate zinc and cadmium containing coordination complexes, each with 10 or 15 different fragmentation schemes. By analyzing errors, we developed a prescription for the optimal fragmentation strategy. With this scheme, and using MP2 correlation energies as a test, we find that the electrostatically embedded three-body expansion of the correlation energy (EE-3B-CE) method is able to reproduce all 53 conventionally calculated bond energies with an average absolute error of only 0.59 kcal/mol. The paper also presents EE-MB-CE calculations using the CCSD(T) level of theory on an LF model system. With CCSD(T), EE-3B-CE has an average error of 0.30 kcal/mol.
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- Elbek K Kurbanov
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414
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