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Capone M, Romanelli M, Castaldo D, Parolin G, Bello A, Gil G, Vanzan M. A Vision for the Future of Multiscale Modeling. ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU 2024; 4:202-225. [PMID: 38800726 PMCID: PMC11117712 DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.3c00080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
Abstract
The rise of modern computer science enabled physical chemistry to make enormous progresses in understanding and harnessing natural and artificial phenomena. Nevertheless, despite the advances achieved over past decades, computational resources are still insufficient to thoroughly simulate extended systems from first principles. Indeed, countless biological, catalytic and photophysical processes require ab initio treatments to be properly described, but the breadth of length and time scales involved makes it practically unfeasible. A way to address these issues is to couple theories and algorithms working at different scales by dividing the system into domains treated at different levels of approximation, ranging from quantum mechanics to classical molecular dynamics, even including continuum electrodynamics. This approach is known as multiscale modeling and its use over the past 60 years has led to remarkable results. Considering the rapid advances in theory, algorithm design, and computing power, we believe multiscale modeling will massively grow into a dominant research methodology in the forthcoming years. Hereby we describe the main approaches developed within its realm, highlighting their achievements and current drawbacks, eventually proposing a plausible direction for future developments considering also the emergence of new computational techniques such as machine learning and quantum computing. We then discuss how advanced multiscale modeling methods could be exploited to address critical scientific challenges, focusing on the simulation of complex light-harvesting processes, such as natural photosynthesis. While doing so, we suggest a cutting-edge computational paradigm consisting in performing simultaneous multiscale calculations on a system allowing the various domains, treated with appropriate accuracy, to move and extend while they properly interact with each other. Although this vision is very ambitious, we believe the quick development of computer science will lead to both massive improvements and widespread use of these techniques, resulting in enormous progresses in physical chemistry and, eventually, in our society.
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- Matteo Capone
- Department
of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University
of L’Aquila, L’Aquila 67010, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
- Department
of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena 41125, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
- Instituto
de Cibernética, Matemática y Física (ICIMAF), La Habana 10400, Cuba
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
- Department
of Physics, University of Milano, Milano 20133, Italy
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Giovannini T, Scavino M, Koch H. Time-Dependent Multilevel Density Functional Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:3601-3612. [PMID: 38648031 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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We present a novel three-layer approach based on multilevel density functional theory (MLDFT) and polarizable molecular mechanics to simulate the electronic excitations of chemical systems embedded in an external environment within the time-dependent DFT formalism. In our method, the electronic structure of a target system, the chromophore, is determined in the field of an embedded inactive layer, which is treated as frozen. Long-range interactions are described by employing the polarizable fluctuating charge (FQ) force field. The resulting MLDFT/FQ thus accurately describes both electrostatics (and polarization) and non-electrostatic target-environment interactions. The robustness and reliability of the approach are demonstrated by comparing our results with experimental data reported for various organic molecules in solution.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Chung MKJ, Ponder JW. Beyond isotropic repulsion: Classical anisotropic repulsion by inclusion of p orbitals. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:174118. [PMID: 38748037 PMCID: PMC11078554 DOI: 10.1063/5.0203678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Accurate modeling of intermolecular repulsion is an integral component in force field development. Although repulsion can be explicitly calculated by applying the Pauli exclusion principle, this approach is computationally viable only for systems of limited sizes. Instead, it has previously been shown that repulsion can be reformulated in a "classical" picture: the Pauli exclusion principle prohibits electrons from occupying the same state, leading to a depletion of electronic charge between atoms, giving rise to an enhanced nuclear-nuclear electrostatic repulsion. This classical picture is called the isotropic S2/R approximation, where S is the overlap and R is the interatomic distance. This approximation accurately captures the repulsion of isotropic atoms such as noble gas dimers; however, a key deficiency is that it fails to capture the angular dependence of the repulsion of anisotropic molecules. To include directionality, the wave function must at least be a linear combination of s and p orbitals. We derive a new anisotropic S2/R repulsion model through the inclusion of the anisotropic p orbital term in the total wave function. Because repulsion is pairwise and decays rapidly, it can be truncated at a short range, making it amenable for efficient calculation of energy and forces in complex biomolecular systems. We present a parameterization of the S101 dimer database against the ab initio benchmark symmetry-adapted perturbation theory, which yields an rms error of only 0.9 kcal/mol. The importance of the anisotropic term is demonstrated through angular scans of water-water dimers and dimers involving halobenzene. Simulation of liquid water shows that the model can be computed efficiently for realistic system sizes.
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- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: . Tel.: 314-935-4275
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Sattasathuchana T, Xu P, Bertoni C, Kim YL, Leang SS, Pham BQ, Gordon MS. The Effective Fragment Molecular Orbital Method: Achieving High Scalability and Accuracy for Large Systems. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:2445-2461. [PMID: 38450638 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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The effective fragment molecular orbital (EFMO) method has been developed to predict the total energy of a very large molecular system accurately (with respect to the underlying quantum mechanical method) and efficiently by taking advantage of the locality of strong chemical interactions and employing a two-level hierarchical parallelism. The accuracy of the EFMO method is partly attributed to the accurate and robust intermolecular interaction prediction between distant fragments, in particular, the many-body polarization and dispersion effects, which require the generation of static and dynamic polarizability tensors by solving the coupled perturbed Hartree-Fock (CPHF) and time-dependent HF (TDHF) equations, respectively. Solving the CPHF and TDHF equations is the main EFMO computational bottleneck due to the inefficient (serial) and I/O-intensive implementation of the CPHF and TDHF solvers. In this work, the efficiency and scalability of the EFMO method are significantly improved with a new CPU memory-based implementation for solving the CPHF and TDHF equations that are parallelized by either message passing interface (MPI) or hybrid MPI/OpenMP. The accuracy of the EFMO method is demonstrated for both covalently bonded systems and noncovalently bound molecular clusters by systematically examining the effects of basis sets and a key distance-related cutoff parameter, Rcut. Rcut determines whether a fragment pair (dimer) is treated by the chosen ab initio method or calculated using the effective fragment potential (EFP) method (separated dimers). Decreasing the value of Rcut increases the number of separated (EFP) dimers, thereby decreasing the computational effort. It is demonstrated that excellent accuracy (<1 kcal/mol error per fragment) can be achieved when using a sufficiently large basis set with diffuse functions coupled with a small Rcut value. With the new parallel implementation, the total EFMO wall time is substantially reduced, especially with a high number of MPI ranks. Given a sufficient workload, nearly ideal strong scaling is achieved for the CPHF and TDHF parts of the calculation. For the first time, EFMO calculations with the inclusion of long-range polarization and dispersion interactions on a hydrated mesoporous silica nanoparticle with explicit water solvent molecules (more than 15k atoms) are achieved on a massively parallel supercomputer using nearly 1000 physical nodes. In addition, EFMO calculations on the carbinolamine formation step of an amine-catalyzed aldol reaction at the nanoscale with explicit solvent effects are presented.
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- Tosaporn Sattasathuchana
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- EP Analytics, Inc., 9909 Mira Mesa Blvd Ste. 230, San Diego, California 92131, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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Welsh BA, Urbina AS, Ho TA, Rempe SL, Slipchenko LV, Zwier TS. Capturing CO 2 in Quadrupolar Binding Pockets: Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy of Pyrimidine-(CO 2) n, n = 1,2. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:1124-1133. [PMID: 38306293 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
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Pyrimidine has two in-plane CH(δ+)/N̈(δ-)/CH(δ+) binding sites that are complementary to the (δ-/2δ+/δ-) quadrupole moment of CO2. We recorded broadband microwave spectra over the 7.5-17.5 GHz range for pyrimidine-(CO2)n with n = 1 and 2 formed in a supersonic expansion. Based on fits of the rotational transitions, including nuclear hyperfine splitting due to the two 14N nuclei, we have assigned 313 hyperfine components across 105 rotational transitions for the n = 1 complex and 208 hyperfine components across 105 rotational transitions for the n = 2 complex. The pyrimidine-CO2 complex is planar, with CO2 occupying one of the quadrupolar binding sites, forming a structure in which the CO2 is stabilized in the plane by interactions with the C-H hydrogens adjacent to the nitrogen atom. This structure is closely analogous to that of the pyridine-CO2 complex studied previously by (Doran, J. L. J. Mol. Struct. 2012, 1019, 191-195). The fit to the n = 2 cluster gives rotational constants consistent with a planar cluster of C2v symmetry in which the second CO2 molecule binds in the second quadrupolar binding pocket on the opposite side of the ring. The calculated total binding energy in pyrimidine-CO2 is -13.7 kJ mol-1, including corrections for basis set superposition error and zero-point energy, at the CCSD(T)/ 6-311++G(3df,2p) level, while that in pyrimidine-(CO2)2 is almost exactly double that size, indicating little interaction between the two CO2 molecules in the two binding sites. The enthalpy, entropy, and free energy of binding are also calculated at 300 K within the harmonic oscillator/rigid-rotor model. This model is shown to lack quantitative accuracy when it is applied to the formation of weakly bound complexes.
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- Blair A Welsh
- Gas Phase Chemical Physics, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1393, United States
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- Geochemistry Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, United States
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1393, United States
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- Gas Phase Chemical Physics, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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Slipchenko LV. Detangling Solvatochromic Effects by the Effective Fragment Potential Method. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:656-669. [PMID: 38193780 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c06194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Understanding molecular interactions in complex systems opens avenues for the efficient design of new materials with target properties. Energy decomposition methods provide a means to obtain a detailed picture of intermolecular interactions. This work introduces a molecular modeling approach for decomposing the solvatochromic shifts of the electronic excited states into the contributions of the individual molecular fragments of the environment surrounding the chromophore. The developed approach is implemented for the QM/EFP (quantum mechanics/effective fragment potential) model that provides a rigorous first-principles-based description of the electronic states of the chromophores in complex polarizable environments. On the example of two model systems, water pentamer and hydrated uracil, we show how the decomposition of the solvatochromic shifts into the contributions of individual solvent water molecules provides a detailed picture of the intermolecular interactions in the ground and excited states of these systems. The analysis also demonstrates the nonadditivity of solute-solvent interactions and the significant contribution of solute polarization to the total values of solvatochromic shifts.
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- Lyudmila V Slipchenko
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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Lafiosca P, Rossi F, Egidi F, Giovannini T, Cappelli C. Multiscale Frozen Density Embedding/Molecular Mechanics Approach for Simulating Magnetic Response Properties of Solvated Systems. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:266-279. [PMID: 38109486 PMCID: PMC10782454 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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We present a three-layer hybrid quantum mechanical/quantum embedding/molecular mechanics approach for calculating nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) shieldings and J-couplings of molecular systems in solution. The model is based on the frozen density embedding (FDE) and polarizable fluctuating charges (FQ) and fluctuating dipoles (FQFμ) force fields and permits the accurate ab initio description of short-range nonelectrostatic interactions by means of the FDE shell and cost-effective treatment of long-range electrostatic interactions through the polarizable force field FQ(Fμ). Our approach's accuracy and potential are demonstrated by studying NMR spectra of Brooker's merocyanine in aqueous and nonaqueous solutions.
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- Piero Lafiosca
- Scuola
Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola
Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Software
for Chemistry and Materials BV, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Scuola
Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Urbina AS, Slipchenko LV, Ben-Amotz D. Quantifying the Nearly Random Microheterogeneity of Aqueous tert-Butyl Alcohol Solutions Using Vibrational Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:11376-11383. [PMID: 38078837 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2023]
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The microheterogeneous structure of aqueous tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) solutions is quantified by combining experimental, simulations, and theoretical results. Experimental Raman multivariate curve resolution (Raman-MCR) C-H frequency shift measurements are compared with predictions obtained using combined quantum mechanical and effective fragment potential (QM/EFP) calculations, as well as with molecular dynamics (MD), random mixture (RM), and finite lattice (FL) predictions. The results indicate that the microheterogeneous aggregation in aqueous TBA solutions is slightly less than that predicted by MD simulations performed using either CHARMM generalized force field (CGenFF) or optimized parameters for liquid simulations all atom (OPLS-AA) force fields but slightly more than that in a self-avoiding RM of TBA-like molecules. The results imply that the onset of microheterogeneity in aqueous solutions occurs when solute contact free energies are about an order of magnitude smaller than thermal fluctuations, thus suggesting a fundamental bound of relevance to biological self-assembly.
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- Andres S Urbina
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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Kim S, Conrad JA, Tow GM, Maginn EJ, Boatz JA, Gordon MS. Intermolecular interactions in clusters of ethylammonium nitrate and 1-amino-1,2,3-triazole. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:30428-30457. [PMID: 37917371 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02407e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
Abstract
The intermolecular interaction energies, including hydrogen bonds (H-bonds), of clusters of the ionic liquid ethylammonium nitrate (EAN) and 1-amino-1,2,3-triazole (1-AT) based deep eutectic propellants (DeEP) are examined. 1-AT is introduced as a neutral hydrogen bond donor (HBD) to EAN in order to form a eutectic mixture. The effective fragment potential (EFP) is used to examine the bonding interactions in the DeEP clusters. The resolution of the Identity (RI) approximated second order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (RI-MP2) and coupled cluster theory (RI-CCSD(T)) are used to validate the EFP results. The EFP method predicts that there are significant polarization and charge transfer effects in the EAN:1-AT complexes, along with Coulombic, dispersion and exchange repulsion interactions. The EFP interaction energies are in good agreement with the RI-MP2 and RI-CCSD(T) results. The quasi-atomic orbital (QUAO) bonding and kinetic bond order (KBO) analyses are additionally used to develop a conceptual and semi-quantitative understanding of the H-bonding interactions as a function of the size of the system. The QUAO and KBO analyses suggest that the H-bonds in the examined clusters follow the characteristic hydrogen bonding three-center four electron interactions. The strongest H-bonding interactions between the (EAN)1:(1-AT)n and (EAN)2:(1-AT)n (n = 1-5) complexes are observed internally within EAN; that is, between the ethylammonium cation [EA]+ and the nitrate anion ([NO3]-). The weakest H-bonding interactions occur between [NO3]- and 1-AT. Consequently, the average strengths of the H-bonds within a given (EAN)x:(1-AT)n complex decrease as more 1-AT molecules are introduced into the EAN monomer and EAN dimer. The QUAO bonding analysis suggests that 1-AT in (EAN)x:(1-AT)n can act as both a HBD and a hydrogen bond acceptor simultaneously. It is observed that two 1-AT molecules can form H-bonds to each other. Although the KBOs that correspond to H-bonding interactions in [EA]+:1-AT, [NO3]-:1-AT and between two 1-AT molecules are weaker than the H-bonds in EAN, those weak H-bond networks with 1-AT could be important to form a stable DeEP.
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- Shinae Kim
- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
- Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base, California 93524, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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Kim Y, Mitchell Z, Lawrence J, Morozov D, Savikhin S, Slipchenko LV. Predicting Mutation-Induced Changes in the Electronic Properties of Photosynthetic Proteins from First Principles: The Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex Example. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:7038-7044. [PMID: 37524046 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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Multiscale molecular modeling is utilized to predict optical absorption and circular dichroism spectra of two single-point mutants of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson photosynthetic pigment-protein complex. The modeling approach combines classical molecular dynamics simulations with structural refinement of photosynthetic pigments and calculations of their excited states in a polarizable protein environment. The only experimental input to the modeling protocol is the X-ray structure of the wild-type protein. The first-principles modeling reproduces changes in the experimental optical spectra of the considered mutants, Y16F and Q198V. Interestingly, the Q198V mutation has a negligible effect on the electronic properties of the targeted bacteriochlorophyll a pigment. Instead, the electronic properties of several other pigments respond to this mutation. The molecular modeling demonstrates that a single-point mutation can induce long-range effects on the protein structure, while extensive structural changes near a pigment do not necessarily lead to significant changes in the electronic properties of that pigment.
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- Yongbin Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Nanoscience Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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Jansen M, Reinholdt P, Hedegård ED, König C. Theoretical and Numerical Comparison of Quantum- and Classical Embedding Models for Optical Spectra. J Phys Chem A 2023. [PMID: 37399130 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c02540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/05/2023]
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Quantum-mechanical (QM) and classical embedding models approximate a supermolecular quantum-chemical calculation. This is particularly useful when the supermolecular calculation has a size that is out of reach for present QM models. Although QM and classical embedding methods share the same goal, they approach this goal from different starting points. In this study, we compare the polarizable embedding (PE) and frozen-density embedding (FDE) models. The former is a classical embedding model, whereas the latter is a density-based QM embedding model. Our comparison focuses on solvent effects on optical spectra of solutes. This is a typical scenario where super-system calculations including the solvent environment become prohibitively large. We formulate a common theoretical framework for PE and FDE models and systematically investigate how PE and FDE approximate solvent effects. Generally, differences are found to be small, except in cases where electron spill-out becomes problematic in the classical frameworks. In these cases, however, atomic pseudopotentials can reduce the electron-spill-out issue.
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- Marina Jansen
- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstr. 3A, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstr. 3A, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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Barcza B, Szirmai Á, Tajti A, Stanton JF, Szalay PG. Benchmarking Aspects of Ab Initio Fragment Models for Accurate Excimer Potential Energy Surfaces. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:3580-3600. [PMID: 37236166 PMCID: PMC10694823 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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While Coupled-Cluster methods have been proven to provide an accurate description of excited electronic states, the scaling of the computational costs with the system size limits the degree for which these methods can be applied. In this work different aspects of fragment-based approaches are studied on noncovalently bound molecular complexes with interacting chromophores of the fragments, such as π-stacked nucleobases. The interaction of the fragments is considered at two distinct steps. First, the states localized on the fragments are described in the presence of the other fragment(s); for this we test two approaches. One method is founded on QM/MM principles, only including the electrostatic interaction between the fragments in the electronic structure calculation with Pauli repulsion and dispersion effects added separately. The other model, a Projection-based Embedding (PbE) using the Huzinaga equation, includes both electrostatic and Pauli repulsion and only needs to be augmented by dispersion interactions. In both schemes the extended Effective Fragment Potential (EFP2) method of Gordon et al. was found to provide an adequate correction for the missing terms. In the second step, the interaction of the localized chromophores is modeled for a proper description of the excitonic coupling. Here the inclusion of purely electrostatic contributions appears to be sufficient: it is found that the Coulomb part of the coupling provides accurate splitting of the energies of interacting chromophores that are separated by more than 4 Å.
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- Bónis Barcza
- Laboratory
of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
- György
Hevesy Doctoral School, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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B. Szirmai
- Laboratory
of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
- György
Hevesy Doctoral School, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratory
of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Quantum
Theory Project, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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- Laboratory
of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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Giovannini T, Marrazzini G, Scavino M, Koch H, Cappelli C. Integrated Multiscale Multilevel Approach to Open Shell Molecular Systems. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:1446-1456. [PMID: 36780359 PMCID: PMC10018740 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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We present a novel multiscale approach to study the electronic structure of open shell molecular systems embedded in an external environment. The method is based on the coupling of multilevel Hartree-Fock (MLHF) and Density Functional Theory (MLDFT), suitably extended to the unrestricted formalism, to Molecular Mechanics (MM) force fields (FF). Within the ML region, the system is divided into active and inactive parts, thus describing the most relevant interactions (electrostatic, polarization, and Pauli repulsion) at the quantum level. The surrounding MM part, which is formulated in terms of nonpolarizable or polarizable FFs, permits a physically consistent treatment of long-range electrostatics and polarization effects. The approach is extended to the calculation of hyperfine coupling constants and applied to selected nitroxyl radicals in an aqueous solution.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy.,Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Csizi K, Reiher M. Universal
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approaches for general nanoscale applications. WIRES COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland
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Fu M, Wesolowski TA. Excitation Energies of Embedded Chromophores from Frozen-Density Embedding Theory Using State-Specific Electron Densities of the Environment. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:535-545. [PMID: 36599107 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c07747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Starting from the Perdew-Levy theorem on extrema of the Hohenberg-Kohn functional, the expression for the vertical excitation energy is derived within the formal framework of Frozen-Density Embedding Theory (FDET) that makes it possible to use state-specific electron densities of the environment (ρB) of an embedded species. The derived general expression involves the embedded wave functions for ground and excited states that are orthogonal and is exact up to quadratic terms in the appropriate density expansion. It can be applied in practice using various methods differing in the treatment of the electron-electron correlation for embedded electrons, the method to evaluate different contributions to the excitation energy, the method to generate state-specific ρB, and the approximation used for the non-electrostatic component of the FDET embedding potential. The derived expression is applied for 47 local excitations in 10 embedded organic chromophores. The explicit treatment of the differential polarization of ρB improves indeed the accuracy of the excitation energy as compared to the implicit treatment in which the same ρB is used for all states of embedded chromophore. For 47 local excitations in 10 embedded organic chromophores, the average absolute errors in excitation energies drop from 0.04 to 0.03 eV and their standard deviations from 0.032 to 0.025 eV, respectively. The maximal errors show similar trends.
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- Mingxue Fu
- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, 30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 4Genève, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, 30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 4Genève, Switzerland
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Anstöter CS, Abou-Hatab S, Thodika M, Matsika S. Effective Fragment Potentials for Microsolvated Excited and Anionic States. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:8508-8518. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Cate S. Anstöter
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania19122, United States
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Naseem-Khan S, Lagardère L, Narth C, Cisneros GA, Ren P, Gresh N, Piquemal JP. Development of the Quantum-Inspired SIBFA Many-Body Polarizable Force Field: Enabling Condensed-Phase Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:3607-3621. [PMID: 35575306 PMCID: PMC10851344 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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We present the extension of the Sum of Interactions Between Fragments Ab initio Computed (SIBFA) many-body polarizable force field to condensed-phase molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The quantum-inspired SIBFA procedure is grounded on simplified integrals obtained from localized molecular orbital theory and achieves full separability of its intermolecular potential. It embodies long-range multipolar electrostatics (up to quadrupole) coupled to a short-range penetration correction (up to charge-quadrupole), exchange repulsion, many-body polarization, many-body charge transfer/delocalization, exchange dispersion, and dispersion (up to C10). This enables the reproduction of all energy contributions of ab initio symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT(DFT)) gas-phase reference computations. The SIBFA approach has been integrated within the Tinker-HP massively parallel MD package. To do so, all SIBFA energy gradients have been derived and the approach has been extended to enable periodic boundary conditions simulations using smooth particle mesh Ewald. This novel implementation also notably includes a computationally tractable simplification of the many-body charge transfer/delocalization contribution. As a proof of concept, we perform a first computational experiment defining a water model fitted on a limited set of SAPT(DFT) data. SIBFA is shown to enable a satisfactory reproduction of both gas-phase energetic contributions and condensed-phase properties highlighting the importance of its physically motivated functional form.
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- Sehr Naseem-Khan
- LCT, UMR 7616 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76201, United States
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- LCT, UMR 7616 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
- IP2CT, FR 2622, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76201, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- LCT, UMR 7616 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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- LCT, UMR 7616 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
- Institut Universitaire de France, 75005 Paris, France
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James A, Swathi RS. Modeling the Adsorption of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Graphynes: An Improved Lennard-Jones Formulation. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:3472-3485. [PMID: 35609299 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Research on the development of theoretical methodologies for modeling noncovalent interactions governing the adsorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on graphene and other two-dimensional materials is being intensely pursued in recent times. Highly accurate empirical potentials have emerged as a viable alternative to first-principles calculations for performing large-scale simulations. Herein, we report exploration of the potential energy surfaces for the adsorption of cata-condensed and peri-condensed PAHs on graphynes (GYs) using the improved Lennard-Jones (ILJ) potential. Initially, the ILJ potential is parametrized against benchmark electronic structure calculations performed on a selected set of PAH-GY complexes using dispersion-corrected density functional theory. The accuracy of the parametrization scheme is then assessed by a comparison of the adsorption features predicted from the ILJ potential with those computed using electronic structure calculations. The potential energy profiles as well as the single point energy calculations and geometry reoptimizations performed on the minimum-energy configurations predicted by the ILJ potential for a broader range of PAH-GY complexes provided a validation of the parametrization scheme. Finally, by an extrapolation of the PAH adsorption energies on various GYs, we estimated the interlayer cohesion energies for the van der Waals bilayer heterostructures of GYs with graphene to be in the range of 25-50 meV/atom.
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- Anto James
- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM), Vithura, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM), Vithura, Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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Barcza B, Szirmai ÁB, Szántó KJ, Tajti A, Szalay PG. Comparison of approximate intermolecular potentials for ab initio fragment calculations on medium sized N-heterocycles. J Comput Chem 2022; 43:1079-1093. [PMID: 35478353 PMCID: PMC9321956 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Revised: 03/26/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The ground state intermolecular potential of bimolecular complexes of N‐heterocycles is analyzed for the impact of individual terms in the interaction energy as provided by various, conceptually different theories. Novel combinations with several formulations of the electrostatic, Pauli repulsion, and dispersion contributions are tested at both short‐ and long‐distance sides of the potential energy surface, for various alignments of the pyrrole dimer as well as the cytosine–uracil complex. The integration of a DFT/CCSD density embedding scheme, with dispersion terms from the effective fragment potential (EFP) method is found to provide good agreement with a reference CCSD(T) potential overall; simultaneously, a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics approach using CHELPG atomic point charges for the electrostatic interaction, augmented by EFP dispersion and Pauli repulsion, comes also close to the reference result. Both schemes have the advantage of not relying on predefined force fields; rather, the interaction parameters can be determined for the system under study, thus being excellent candidates for ab initio modeling.
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- Bónis Barcza
- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Fedorov DG. Polarization energies in the fragment molecular orbital method. J Comput Chem 2022; 43:1094-1103. [PMID: 35446441 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Revised: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Using isolated and polarized states of fragments, a method for computing the polarization energies in density functional theory (DFT) and density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) is developed in the framework of the fragment molecular orbital method. For DFTB, the method is extended into the use of periodic boundary conditions (PBC), for which a new component, a periodic self-polarization energy, is derived. The couplings of the polarization to other components in the pair interaction energy analysis (PIEDA) are derived for DFT and DFTB, and compared to Hartree-Fock and second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2). The effect of the self-consistent (DFT) and perturbative (MP2) treatment of the electron correlation on the polarization is discussed. The difference in the polarization in the bulk (PBC) and micro (cluster) solvation is elucidated.
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- Dmitri G Fedorov
- Research Center for Computational Design of Advanced Functional Materials (CD-FMat), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
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Carter-Fenk K, Herbert JM. Appraisal of dispersion damping functions for the effective fragment potential method. Mol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2055504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Kevin Carter-Fenk
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Kim YL, Gordon MS, Garcia A, Evans JW. Rotational and translational diffusion of liquid n-hexane: EFP-based molecular dynamics analysis. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:114503. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0079212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations based on the Effective Fragment Potential (EFP) method are utilized to provide a comprehensive assessment of diffusion in liquid n-hexane. We decompose translational diffusion into components along and orthogonal to the long axis of the molecule. Rotational diffusion is decomposed into tumbling and spinning motions about this axis. Our analysis yields four corresponding diffusion coefficients which are related to diagonal entries in the complete 6 × 6 diffusion tensor accounting for the three rotational and three translational degrees of freedom and for the potential coupling between them. However, coupling between different degrees of freedom is expected to be minimal for a natural choice of the molecular body-fixed axis, so then off-diagonal entries in the tensor are negligible. This expectation is supported by a hydrodynamic analysis of the diffusion tensor which treats the liquid surrounding the molecule being tracked as a viscous continuum. Thus, the EFP MD analysis provides a comprehensive characterization of diffusion and also reveals expected shortcomings of the hydrodynamic treatment, particularly for rotational diffusion, when applied to neat liquids.
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- Yu Lim Kim
- Ames Laboratory – U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA
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- Ames Laboratory – U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA
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- Ames Laboratory – U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA
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- Ames Laboratory – U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA
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Bredt AJ, Kim Y, Mendes de Oliveira D, Urbina AS, Slipchenko LV, Ben-Amotz D. Expulsion of Hydroxide Ions from Methyl Hydration Shells. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:869-877. [PMID: 35077175 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c08420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The affinity of hydroxide ions for methyl hydration shells is assessed using a combined experimental and theoretical analysis of tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) dissolved in pure water and aqueous NaOH and NaI. The experimental results are obtained using Raman multivariate curve resolution (Raman-MCR) and a new three-component total least squares (Raman-TLS) spectral decomposition strategy used to highlight vibrational perturbations resulting from interactions between TBA and aqueous ions. The experiments are interpreted and extended with the aid of effective fragment potential molecular dynamics (EFP-MD) simulations, as well as Kirkwood-Buff calculations and octanol/water partition measurements, to relate TBA-ion distribution functions to TBA solubility changes. The combined experimental and simulation results reveal that methyl group hydration shells more strongly expel hydroxide than iodide anions, whose populations near the methyl groups of TBA are predicted to be correlated with sodium counterion localization near the TBA hydroxyl group.
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- Aria J Bredt
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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Shen Z, Glover WJ. Flexible boundary layer using exchange for embedding theories. I. Theory and implementation. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:224112. [PMID: 34911322 DOI: 10.1063/5.0067855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Embedding theory is a powerful computational chemistry approach to exploring the electronic structure and dynamics of complex systems, with Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) being the prime example. A challenge arises when trying to apply embedding methodology to systems with diffusible particles, e.g., solvents, if some of them must be included in the QM region, for example, in the description of solvent-supported electronic states or reactions involving proton transfer or charge-transfer-to-solvent: without a special treatment, inter-diffusion of QM and MM particles will eventually lead to a loss of QM/MM separation. We have developed a new method called Flexible Boundary Layer using Exchange (FlexiBLE) that solves the problem by adding a biasing potential to the system that closely maintains QM/MM separation. The method rigorously preserves ensemble averages by leveraging their invariance to an exchange of identical particles. With a careful choice of the biasing potential and the use of a tree algorithm to include only important QM and MM exchanges, we find that the method has an MM-forcefield-like computational cost and thus adds negligible overhead to a QM/MM simulation. Furthermore, we show that molecular dynamics with the FlexiBLE bias conserves total energy, and remarkably, sub-diffusional dynamical quantities in the inner QM region are unaffected by the applied bias. FlexiBLE thus widens the range of chemistry that can be studied with embedding theory.
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- Zhuofan Shen
- NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Ave., Shanghai 200122, China
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Karnaukh EA, Bravaya KB. The redox potential of a heme cofactor in Nitrosomonas europaea cytochrome c peroxidase: a polarizable QM/MM study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:16506-16515. [PMID: 34017969 PMCID: PMC11178132 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06632j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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Redox reactions are crucial to biological processes that protect organisms against oxidative stress. Metalloenzymes, such as peroxidases which reduce excess reactive oxygen species into water, play a key role in detoxification mechanisms. Here we present the results of a polarizable QM/MM study of the reduction potential of the electron transfer heme in the cytochrome c peroxidase of Nitrosomonas europaea. We have found that environment polarization does not substantially affect the computed value of the redox potential. Particular attention has been given to analyzing the role of electrostatic interactions within the protein environment and the solvent on tuning the redox potential of the heme co-factor. We have found that the electrostatic interactions predominantly explain the fluctuations of the vertical ionization/attachment energies of the heme for the sampled configurations, and that the long range electrostatic interactions (up to 40 Å) contribute substantially to the absolute values of the vertical energy gaps.
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Anstöter CS, DelloStritto M, Klein ML, Matsika S. Modeling the Ultrafast Electron Attachment Dynamics of Solvated Uracil. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:6995-7003. [PMID: 34347484 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Electron attachment to DNA by low energy electrons can lead to DNA damage, so a fundamental understanding of how electrons interact with the components of nucleic acids in solution is an open challenge. In solution, low energy electrons can generate presolvated electrons, epre-, which are efficiently scavanged by pyrimidine nucleobases to form transient negative ions, able to relax to either stable valence bound anions or undergo dissociative electron detachment or transfer to other parts of DNA/RNA leading to strand breakages. In order to understand the initial electron attachment dynamics, this paper presents a joint molecular dynamics and high-level electronic structure study into the behavior of the electronic states of the solvated uracil anion. Both the valence π* and nonvalence epre- states of the solvated uracil system are studied, and the effect of the solvent environment and the geometric structure of the uracil core are uncoupled to gain insight into the physical origin of the stabilization of the solvated uracil anion. Solvent reorganization is found to play a dominant role followed by relaxation of the uracil core.
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- Cate S Anstöter
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University SERC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University SERC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Uribe L, Gómez S, Giovannini T, Egidi F, Restrepo A. An efficient and robust procedure to calculate absorption spectra of aqueous charged species applied to NO 2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:14857-14872. [PMID: 34223573 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00652e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Accurate calculation of absorption spectra of aqueous NO2- requires rigorously sampling the quantum potential energy surfaces for microsolvation of NO2- with at least five explicit water molecules and embedding the resulting clusters in a continuum solvent accounting for the statistical weighted contributions of individual isomers. This method, which we address as ASCEC + PCM, introduces several desired features when compared against MD simulations derived QM/MM spectra: comparatively fewer explicit solvent molecules to be treated with expensive QM methods, the identification of equilibrium structures in the quantum PES to be used in further vibrational spectroscopy, and the unequivocal identification of cluster orbitals undergoing electronic transitions and charge transfer that originate the spectral bands.
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- Lina Uribe
- Instituto de Química, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No. 52-21, Medellín, Colombia.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Scienze, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Scienze, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Scienze, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
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- Instituto de Química, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No. 52-21, Medellín, Colombia.
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Loco D, Lagardère L, Adjoua O, Piquemal JP. Atomistic Polarizable Embeddings: Energy, Dynamics, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity. Acc Chem Res 2021; 54:2812-2822. [PMID: 33961401 PMCID: PMC8264944 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The computational modeling of realistic extended systems, relevant in, e.g., Chemistry and Biophysics, is a fundamental problem of paramount importance in contemporary research. Enzymatic catalysis and photoinduced processes in pigment-protein complexes are typical problems targeted by computer-aided approaches, to complement experiments as interpretative tools at a molecular scale. The daunting complexity of this task lies in between the opposite stringent requirements of results' reliability for structural/dynamical properties and related intermolecular interactions, and a mandatory principle of realism in the modeling strategy. Therefore, in practice, a truly realistic computational model of a biologically relevant system can easily fail to meet the accuracy requirement, in order to balance the excessive computational cost necessary to reach the desired precision.To address such an "accuracy vs reality" dualistic requirement, mixed quantum mechanics/classical mechanics approaches within Atomistic (i.e., preserving the discrete particle configuration) Polarizable Embeddings (QM/APEs) methods have been proposed over the years. In this Account, we review recent developments in the design and application of general QM/APE methods, targeting situations where a local intrinsically quantum behavior is coupled to a large molecular system (i.e., an environment), often involving processes with different dynamical time scales, in order to avoid brute-force, unpractical quantum chemistry calculations on the complete system.In the first place, our interest is devoted to the available APEs models presently implemented in computational software, highlighting the quantum chemistry methods that can be used to treat the QM subsystem. We review the coupling strategy between the QM subsystem and the APE, which requires to examine the way the QM/MM mutual interactions are accounted for and how the polarization of the classical environment is considered with respect to (wrt) the quantum variables. Because of the need of reliable molecular and macromolecular structures, a pivotal aspect to address here is the handling of the system dynamics (i.e., gradients wrt nuclear positions are required), especially for large molecular assemblies composed by an overwhelming number of atoms, exploring many conformations on a complex energy landscape.Alongside, we highlight our views on the necessary steps to take toward more accurate general-purposes and transferable explicit embeddings. The main objective to achieve here is to design a more physically grounded multiscale approach. To do so, one should apply advanced new generation classical models to account for refined induction effects that are able to (i) improve the quality of QM/MM interaction energies; (ii) enhance transferability by avoiding the compulsory partial (or total) reparameterization of the classical model. Moreover, the extension of recent developments originating from the field of advanced classical molecular dynamics (MD) to the realm of QM/APE methods is a key direction to improve both speed and efficiency for the phase space exploration of systems of growing size and complexity.Lastly, we point out specific research topics where an advanced QM/APE dynamics can certainly shed some light. For example, we discuss chemical reactions in "harsh" environments and the case of spectroscopic theoretical modeling where the inclusion of refined environment effects is often mandatory.
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- Daniele Loco
- Laboratoire
de Chimie Théorique, Sorbonne Université,
UMR 7616 CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Théorique, Sorbonne Université,
UMR 7616 CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
- Intitut
Parisien de Chimie Physique et Théorique, Sorbonne Université, FR 2622 CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Théorique, Sorbonne Université,
UMR 7616 CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire
de Chimie Théorique, Sorbonne Université,
UMR 7616 CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut
Universitaire de France, F-75005 Paris, France
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, The University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Schriber JB, Nascimento DR, Koutsoukas A, Spronk SA, Cheney DL, Sherrill CD. CLIFF: A component-based, machine-learned, intermolecular force field. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:184110. [PMID: 34241025 DOI: 10.1063/5.0042989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Computation of intermolecular interactions is a challenge in drug discovery because accurate ab initio techniques are too computationally expensive to be routinely applied to drug-protein models. Classical force fields are more computationally feasible, and force fields designed to match symmetry adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) interaction energies can remain accurate in this context. Unfortunately, the application of such force fields is complicated by the laborious parameterization required for computations on new molecules. Here, we introduce the component-based machine-learned intermolecular force field (CLIFF), which combines accurate, physics-based equations for intermolecular interaction energies with machine-learning models to enable automatic parameterization. The CLIFF uses functional forms corresponding to electrostatic, exchange-repulsion, induction/polarization, and London dispersion components in SAPT. Molecule-independent parameters are fit with respect to SAPT2+(3)δMP2/aug-cc-pVTZ, and molecule-dependent atomic parameters (atomic widths, atomic multipoles, and Hirshfeld ratios) are obtained from machine learning models developed for C, N, O, H, S, F, Cl, and Br. The CLIFF achieves mean absolute errors (MAEs) no worse than 0.70 kcal mol-1 in both total and component energies across a diverse dimer test set. For the side chain-side chain interaction database derived from protein fragments, the CLIFF produces total interaction energies with an MAE of 0.27 kcal mol-1 with respect to reference data, outperforming similar and even more expensive methods. In applications to a set of model drug-protein interactions, the CLIFF is able to accurately rank-order ligand binding strengths and achieves less than 10% error with respect to SAPT reference values for most complexes.
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- Jeffrey B Schriber
- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30318, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30318, USA
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- Molecular Structure and Design, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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- Molecular Structure and Design, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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- Molecular Structure and Design, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30318, USA
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Kim YL, Han Y, Evans JW, Gordon MS. Effective Fragment Potential-Based Molecular Dynamics Studies of Diffusion in Acetone and Hexane. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:3398-3405. [PMID: 33861600 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c01865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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To facilitate more reliable descriptions of transport properties in liquids, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed based on the effective fragment potential (EFP) method derived from first-principles quantum mechanics (in contrast to MD based upon empirically fitted potentials). The EFP method describes molecular interactions in terms of Coulomb, polarization/induction, dispersion, exchange-repulsion, and charge-transfer interactions. The EFP MD simulations described in this paper, performed on hexane and acetone, are able to track the mean-square displacement of molecules for sufficient time to reliably extract translational diffusion coefficients. The results reported here are in reasonable agreement with experiment.
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- Yu Lim Kim
- Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States.,Department of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States.,Department of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, United States
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Egidi F, Angelico S, Lafiosca P, Giovannini T, Cappelli C. A polarizable three-layer frozen density embedding/molecular mechanics approach. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:164107. [PMID: 33940798 DOI: 10.1063/5.0045574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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We present a novel multilayer polarizable embedding approach in which the system is divided into three portions, two of which are treated using density functional theory and their interaction is based on frozen density embedding (FDE) theory, and both also mutually interact with a polarizable classical layer described using an atomistic model based on fluctuating charges (FQ). The efficacy of the model is demonstrated by extending the formalism to linear response properties and applying it to the simulation of the excitation energies of organic molecules in aqueous solution, where the solute and the first solvation shell are treated using FDE, while the rest of the solvent is modeled using FQ charges.
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- Franco Egidi
- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Błasiak B, Bednarska JD, Chołuj M, Góra RW, Bartkowiak W. Ab initio effective one-electron potential operators: Applications for charge-transfer energy in effective fragment potentials. J Comput Chem 2021; 42:398-411. [PMID: 33349929 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The concept of effective one-electron potentials (EOPs) has proven to be extremely useful in efficient description of electronic structure of chemical systems, especially extended molecular aggregates such as interacting molecules in condensed phases. Here, a general method for EOP-based elimination of electron repulsion integrals is presented, that is tuned toward the fragment-based calculation methodologies such as the second generation of the effective fragment potentials (EFP2) method. Two general types of the EOP operator matrix elements are distinguished and treated either via the distributed multipole expansion or the extended density fitting (DF) schemes developed in this work. The EOP technique is then applied to reduce the high computational costs of the effective fragment charge-transfer (CT) terms being the bottleneck of EFP2 potentials. The alternative EOP-based CT energy model is proposed, derived within the framework of intermolecular perturbation theory with Hartree-Fock noninteracting reference wavefunctions, compatible with the original EFP2 formulation. It is found that the computational cost of the EFP2 total interaction energy calculation can be reduced by up to 38 times when using the EOP-based formulation of CT energy, as compared to the original EFP2 scheme, without compromising the accuracy for a wide range of weakly interacting neutral and ionic molecular fragments. The proposed model can thus be used routinely within the EFP2 framework.
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- Bartosz Błasiak
- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
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Abou-Hatab S, Carnevale V, Matsika S. Modeling solvation effects on absorption and fluorescence spectra of indole in aqueous solution. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:064104. [PMID: 33588532 PMCID: PMC7878019 DOI: 10.1063/5.0038342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Modeling the optical spectra of molecules in solution presents a challenge, so it is important to understand which of the solvation effects (i.e., electrostatics, mutual polarization, and hydrogen bonding interactions between solute and solvent molecules) are crucial in reproducing the various features of the absorption and fluorescence spectra and to identify a sufficient theoretical model that accurately captures these effects with minimal computational cost. In this study, we use various implicit and explicit solvation models, such as molecular dynamics coupled with non-polarizable and polarizable force fields, as well as Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics, to model the absorption and fluorescence spectra of indole in aqueous solution. The excited states are computed using the equation of motion coupled cluster with single and double excitations combined with the effective fragment potential to represent water molecules, which we found to be a computationally efficient approach for modeling large solute-solvent clusters at a high level of quantum theory. We find that modeling mutual polarization, compared to other solvation effects, is a dominating factor for accurately reproducing the position of the peaks and spectral line shape of the absorption spectrum of indole in solution. We present an in-depth analysis of the influence that different solvation models have on the electronic excited states responsible for the features of the absorption spectra. Modeling fluorescence is more challenging since it is hard to reproduce even the correct emitting state, and force field parameters need to be re-evaluated.
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- Salsabil Abou-Hatab
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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Błasiak B, Bartkowiak W, Góra RW. An effective potential for Frenkel excitons. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:1923-1935. [PMID: 33459313 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp04636a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Excitation energy transfer (EET) is a ubiquitous process in life and materials sciences. Here, a new and computationally efficient method of evaluating the electronic EET couplings between interacting chromophores is introduced that is valid in a wide range of intermolecular distances. The proposed approach is based on the effective elimination of electron repulsion integrals from the excitonic Hamiltonian matrix elements via the density-fitting approach and distributed multipole approximation. The excitonic Hamiltonian represented in a basis including charge transfer (CT) states is re-cast in terms of the effective one-electron potential functions (EOPs) and adapted into the effective fragment parameter (EFP) framework. Calculations for model systems indicate that the speedup of at least three orders of magnitude, as compared to the state-of-the-art methods, can be achieved while maintaining the accuracy of the EET couplings even at short intermolecular distances.
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- Bartosz Błasiak
- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland.
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Computational methods for modeling biochemical processes implemented in GAMESS package are reviewed; in particular, quantum mechanics combined with molecular mechanics (QM/MM), semi-empirical, and fragmentation approaches. A detailed summary of capabilities is provided for the QM/MM implementation in QuanPol program and the fragment molecular orbital (FMO) method. Molecular modeling and visualization packages useful for biochemical simulations with GAMESS are described. GAMESS capabilities with corresponding references are tabulated for reader's convenience.
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Osella S. Artificial Photosynthesis: Is Computation Ready for the Challenge Ahead? NANOMATERIALS 2021; 11:nano11020299. [PMID: 33498961 PMCID: PMC7911014 DOI: 10.3390/nano11020299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A tremendous effort is currently devoted to the generation of novel hybrid materials with enhanced electronic properties for the creation of artificial photosynthetic systems. This compelling and challenging problem is well-defined from an experimental point of view, as the design of such materials relies on combining organic materials or metals with biological systems like light harvesting and redox-active proteins. Such hybrid systems can be used, e.g., as bio-sensors, bio-fuel cells, biohybrid photoelectrochemical cells, and nanostructured photoelectronic devices. Despite these efforts, the main bottleneck is the formation of efficient interfaces between the biological and the organic/metal counterparts for efficient electron transfer (ET). It is within this aspect that computation can make the difference and improve the current understanding of the mechanisms underneath the interface formation and the charge transfer efficiency. Yet, the systems considered (i.e., light harvesting protein, self-assembly monolayer and surface assembly) are more and more complex, reaching (and often passing) the limit of current computation power. In this review, recent developments in computational methods for studying complex interfaces for artificial photosynthesis will be provided and selected cases discussed, to assess the inherent ability of computation to leave a mark in this field of research.
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- Silvio Osella
- Chemical and Biological Systems Simulation Lab, Center of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2C, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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Marrazzini G, Giovannini T, Scavino M, Egidi F, Cappelli C, Koch H. Multilevel Density Functional Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:791-803. [PMID: 33449681 PMCID: PMC7880574 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Following recent
developments in multilevel embedding methods,
we introduce a novel density matrix-based multilevel approach within
the framework of density functional theory (DFT). In this multilevel
DFT, the system is partitioned in an active and an inactive fragment,
and all interactions are retained between the two parts. The decomposition
of the total system is performed upon the density matrix. The orthogonality
between the two parts is maintained by solving the Kohn–Sham
equations in the MO basis for the active part only, while keeping
the inactive density matrix frozen. This results in the reduction
of computational cost. We outline the theory and implementation and
discuss the differences and similarities with state-of-the-art DFT
embedding methods. We present applications to aqueous solutions of
methyloxirane and glycidol.
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- Gioia Marrazzini
- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Giovannini T, Koch H. Energy-Based Molecular Orbital Localization in a Specific Spatial Region. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:139-150. [PMID: 33337150 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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We present a novel energy-based localization procedure able to localize molecular orbitals into predefined spatial regions. The method is defined in a multiscale framework based on the multilevel Hartree-Fock approach. In particular, the system is partitioned into active and inactive fragments. The localized molecular orbitals are obtained maximizing the repulsion between the two fragments. The method is applied to several cases including both conjugated and non-conjugated systems. Our multiscale approach is compared with reference values for both ground-state properties, such as dipole moments, and local excitation energies. The proposed approach is useful to extend the application range of high-level electron correlation methods. In fact, the reduced number of molecular orbitals can lead to a large reduction in the computational cost of correlated calculations.
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- Tommaso Giovannini
- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Goletto L, Giovannini T, Folkestad SD, Koch H. Combining multilevel Hartree–Fock and multilevel coupled cluster approaches with molecular mechanics: a study of electronic excitations in solutions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:4413-4425. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06359b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present the coupling of different quantum-embedding approaches with a third molecular-mechanics layer, which can be either polarizable or non-polarizable.
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- Linda Goletto
- Department of Chemistry
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- 7491 Trondheim
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- 7491 Trondheim
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- 7491 Trondheim
- Norway
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Lu S, Wang B. The role of distributed atomic point charges and polarizabilities of solvent molecules on one‐ and two‐photon absorption spectra of aqueous
p
‐nitroaniline. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202000439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Shih‐I Lu
- Department of Chemistry Soochow University Taipei City Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry Tamkang University New Taipei City Taiwan
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Kim Y, Bui Y, Tazhigulov RN, Bravaya KB, Slipchenko LV. Effective Fragment Potentials for Flexible Molecules: Transferability of Parameters and Amino Acid Database. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:7735-7747. [PMID: 33236635 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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An accurate but efficient description of noncovalent interactions is a key to predictive modeling of biological and materials systems. The effective fragment potential (EFP) is an ab initio-based force field that provides a physically meaningful decomposition of noncovalent interactions of a molecular system into Coulomb, polarization, dispersion, and exchange-repulsion components. An EFP simulation protocol consists of two steps, preparing parameters for molecular fragments by a series of ab initio calculations on each individual fragment, and calculation of interaction energy and properties of a total molecular system based on the prepared parameters. As the fragment parameters (distributed multipoles, polarizabilities, localized wave function, etc.) depend on a fragment geometry, straightforward application of the EFP method requires recomputing parameters of each fragment if its geometry changes, for example, during thermal fluctuations of a molecular system. Thus, recomputing fragment parameters can easily become both computational and human bottlenecks and lead to a loss of efficiency of a simulation protocol. An alternative approach, in which fragment parameters are adjusted to different fragment geometries, referred to as "flexible EFP", is explored here. The parameter adjustment is based on translations and rotations of local coordinate frames associated with fragment atoms. The protocol is validated on extensive benchmark of amino acid dimers extracted from molecular dynamics snapshots of a cryptochrome protein. A parameter database for standard amino acids is developed to automate flexible EFP simulations in proteins. To demonstrate applicability of flexible EFP in large-scale protein simulations, binding energies and vertical electron ionization and electron attachment energies of a lumiflavin chromophore of the cryptochrome protein are computed. The results obtained with flexible EFP are in a close agreement with the standard EFP procedure but provide a significant reduction in computational cost.
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- Yongbin Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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Gütlein P, Blumberger J, Oberhofer H. An Iterative Fragment Scheme for the ACKS2 Electronic Polarization Model: Application to Molecular Dimers and Chains. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:5723-5735. [PMID: 32701273 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The treatment of electrostatic interactions is a key ingredient in the force field-based simulation of condensed phase systems. Most approaches used fixed, site-specific point charges. Yet, it is now clear that many applications of force fields (FFs) demand more sophisticated treatments, prompting the implementation of charge equilibration methods in polarizable FFs to allow the redistribution of charge within the system. One approach allowing both, charge redistribution and site-specific polarization, while at the same time solving methodological shortcomings of earlier methods, is the first-principles-derived atom-condensed Kohn-Sham density functional theory method approximated to the second order (ACKS2). In this work, we present two fragment approaches to ACKS2, termed f-ACKS2 and a self-consistent version, scf-ACKS2, that treat condensed phase systems as a collection of electronically polarizable molecular fragments. The fragmentation approach to ACKS2 not only leads to a more transferable and less system-specific collection of electronic response parameters but also opens up the method to large condensed phase systems. We validate the accuracies of f-ACKS2 and scf-ACKS2 by comparing polarization energies and induced dipole moments for a number of charged hydrocarbon dimers against DFT reference calculations. Finally, we also apply both fragmented ACKS2 variants to calculate the polarization energy for electron-hole pair separation along a chain of anthracene molecules and find excellent agreement with reference DFT calculations.
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- Patrick Gütlein
- Chair for Theoretical Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.,Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 2 a, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Chair for Theoretical Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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Viquez Rojas CI, Slipchenko LV. Exchange Repulsion in Quantum Mechanical/Effective Fragment Potential Excitation Energies: Beyond Polarizable Embedding. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:6408-6417. [PMID: 32786899 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b01156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Hybrid quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) approaches facilitate computational modeling of large biological and materials systems. Typically, in QM/MM, a small region of the system is modeled with an accurate quantum mechanical method and its surroundings with a more efficient alternative, such as a classical force field or the effective fragment potential (EFP). The reliability of QM/MM calculations depends largely on the treatment of interactions between the two subregions, also known as embedding. The polarizable embedding, which allows mutual polarization between solvent and solute, is considered to be essential for describing electronic excitations in polar solvents. In this work, we employ the QM/EFP model and extend the polarizable embedding by incorporating two short-range terms-a charge penetration correction to the electrostatic term and the exchange-repulsion term-both of which are modeled with one-electron contributions to the quantum Hamiltonian. We evaluate the accuracy of these terms by computing excitation energies across 37 molecular clusters consisting of biologically relevant chromophores surrounded by polar solvent molecules. QM/EFP excitation energies are compared to the fully quantum mechanical calculations with the configuration interaction singles (CIS) method. We find that the charge penetration correction diminishes the accuracy of the QM/EFP calculations. On the other hand, while the effect of exchange-repulsion is negligible for most ππ* transitions, the exchange-repulsion significantly improves description of nπ* transitions with blue solvatochromic shifts. As a result, addition of the exchange-repulsion term improves the overall accuracy of QM/EFP. Performances of QM/EFP models remain similar when excitation energies are modeled with cc-pVDZ and aug-cc-pVDZ basis sets.
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- Claudia I Viquez Rojas
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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Baiz CR, Błasiak B, Bredenbeck J, Cho M, Choi JH, Corcelli SA, Dijkstra AG, Feng CJ, Garrett-Roe S, Ge NH, Hanson-Heine MWD, Hirst JD, Jansen TLC, Kwac K, Kubarych KJ, Londergan CH, Maekawa H, Reppert M, Saito S, Roy S, Skinner JL, Stock G, Straub JE, Thielges MC, Tominaga K, Tokmakoff A, Torii H, Wang L, Webb LJ, Zanni MT. Vibrational Spectroscopic Map, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Intermolecular Interaction. Chem Rev 2020; 120:7152-7218. [PMID: 32598850 PMCID: PMC7710120 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Vibrational spectroscopy is an essential tool in chemical analyses, biological assays, and studies of functional materials. Over the past decade, various coherent nonlinear vibrational spectroscopic techniques have been developed and enabled researchers to study time-correlations of the fluctuating frequencies that are directly related to solute-solvent dynamics, dynamical changes in molecular conformations and local electrostatic environments, chemical and biochemical reactions, protein structural dynamics and functions, characteristic processes of functional materials, and so on. In order to gain incisive and quantitative information on the local electrostatic environment, molecular conformation, protein structure and interprotein contacts, ligand binding kinetics, and electric and optical properties of functional materials, a variety of vibrational probes have been developed and site-specifically incorporated into molecular, biological, and material systems for time-resolved vibrational spectroscopic investigation. However, still, an all-encompassing theory that describes the vibrational solvatochromism, electrochromism, and dynamic fluctuation of vibrational frequencies has not been completely established mainly due to the intrinsic complexity of intermolecular interactions in condensed phases. In particular, the amount of data obtained from the linear and nonlinear vibrational spectroscopic experiments has been rapidly increasing, but the lack of a quantitative method to interpret these measurements has been one major obstacle in broadening the applications of these methods. Among various theoretical models, one of the most successful approaches is a semiempirical model generally referred to as the vibrational spectroscopic map that is based on a rigorous theory of intermolecular interactions. Recently, genetic algorithm, neural network, and machine learning approaches have been applied to the development of vibrational solvatochromism theory. In this review, we provide comprehensive descriptions of the theoretical foundation and various examples showing its extraordinary successes in the interpretations of experimental observations. In addition, a brief introduction to a newly created repository Web site (http://frequencymap.org) for vibrational spectroscopic maps is presented. We anticipate that a combination of the vibrational frequency map approach and state-of-the-art multidimensional vibrational spectroscopy will be one of the most fruitful ways to study the structure and dynamics of chemical, biological, and functional molecular systems in the future.
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- Carlos R. Baiz
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, U.S.A
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, U.S.A
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- School of Chemistry and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2025, U.S.A
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K
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- University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, 930 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2025, U.S.A
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- Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Theoretical and Computational Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6110, U.S.A
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- Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A
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- Biomolecular Dynamics, Institute of Physics, Albert Ludwigs University, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, U.S.A
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- Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-0013, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Department of Optoelectronics and Nanostructure Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-Ku, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University, 174 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 E. 24th Street, STOP A5300, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1396, U.S.A
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Giovannini T, Egidi F, Cappelli C. Molecular spectroscopy of aqueous solutions: a theoretical perspective. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:5664-5677. [PMID: 32744278 DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00464e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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Computational spectroscopy is an invaluable tool to both accurately reproduce the spectra of molecular systems and provide a rationalization for the underlying physics. However, the inherent difficulty to accurately model systems in aqueous solutions, owing to water's high polarity and ability to form hydrogen bonds, has severely hampered the development of the field. In this tutorial review we present a technique developed and tested in recent years based on a fully atomistic and polarizable classical modeling of water coupled with a quantum mechanical description of the solute. Thanks to its unparalleled accuracy and versatility, this method can change the perspective of computational and experimental chemists alike.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
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Barca GMJ, Bertoni C, Carrington L, Datta D, De Silva N, Deustua JE, Fedorov DG, Gour JR, Gunina AO, Guidez E, Harville T, Irle S, Ivanic J, Kowalski K, Leang SS, Li H, Li W, Lutz JJ, Magoulas I, Mato J, Mironov V, Nakata H, Pham BQ, Piecuch P, Poole D, Pruitt SR, Rendell AP, Roskop LB, Ruedenberg K, Sattasathuchana T, Schmidt MW, Shen J, Slipchenko L, Sosonkina M, Sundriyal V, Tiwari A, Galvez Vallejo JL, Westheimer B, Włoch M, Xu P, Zahariev F, Gordon MS. Recent developments in the general atomic and molecular electronic structure system. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:154102. [PMID: 32321259 DOI: 10.1063/5.0005188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 518] [Impact Index Per Article: 129.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A discussion of many of the recently implemented features of GAMESS (General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System) and LibCChem (the C++ CPU/GPU library associated with GAMESS) is presented. These features include fragmentation methods such as the fragment molecular orbital, effective fragment potential and effective fragment molecular orbital methods, hybrid MPI/OpenMP approaches to Hartree-Fock, and resolution of the identity second order perturbation theory. Many new coupled cluster theory methods have been implemented in GAMESS, as have multiple levels of density functional/tight binding theory. The role of accelerators, especially graphical processing units, is discussed in the context of the new features of LibCChem, as it is the associated problem of power consumption as the power of computers increases dramatically. The process by which a complex program suite such as GAMESS is maintained and developed is considered. Future developments are briefly summarized.
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- Giuseppe M J Barca
- Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- EP Analytics, 12121 Scripps Summit Dr. Ste. 130, San Diego, California 92131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Western New England University, Springfield, Massachusetts 01119, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Research Center for Computational Design of Advanced Functional Materials (CD-FMat), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Umezono 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan
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- Microsoft, 15590 NE 31st St., Redmond, Washington 98052, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Computational Science and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
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- Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, K8-91, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- EP Analytics, 12121 Scripps Summit Dr. Ste. 130, San Diego, California 92131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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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, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
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- Kyocera Corporation, Research Institute for Advanced Materials and Devices, 3-5-3 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Souraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Cray Inc., a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, 2131 Lindau Ln #1000, Bloomington, Minnesota 55425, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- Department of Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
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- EP Analytics, 12121 Scripps Summit Dr. Ste. 130, San Diego, California 92131, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- 530 Charlesina Dr., Rochester, Michigan 48306, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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Kim Y, Morozov D, Stadnytskyi V, Savikhin S, Slipchenko LV. Predictive First-Principles Modeling of a Photosynthetic Antenna Protein: The Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:1636-1643. [PMID: 32013435 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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High efficiency of light harvesting in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes is governed by evolutionary-perfected protein-assisted tuning of individual pigment properties and interpigment interactions. Due to the large number of spectrally overlapping pigments in a typical photosynthetic complex, experimental methods often fail to unambiguously identify individual chromophore properties. Here, we report a first-principles-based modeling protocol capable of predicting properties of pigments in protein environment to a high precision. The technique was applied to successfully uncover electronic properties of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) pigment-protein complex. Each of the three subunits of the FMO complex contains eight strongly coupled bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) pigments. The excitonic structure of FMO can be described by an electronic Hamiltonian containing excitation (site) energies of BChl a pigments and electronic couplings between them. Several such Hamiltonians have been developed in the past based on the information from various spectroscopic measurements of FMO; however, fine details of the excitonic structure and energy transfer in FMO, especially assignments of short-lived high-energy sites, remain elusive. Utilizing polarizable embedding quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics with the effective fragment potentials, we computed the electronic Hamiltonian of FMO that is in general agreement with previously reported empirical Hamiltonians and quantitatively reproduces experimental absorption and circular dichroism spectra of the FMO protein. The developed computational protocol is sufficiently simple and can be utilized for predictive modeling of other wild-type and mutated photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes.
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- Yongbin Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Nanoscience Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestion and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5 Memorial Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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Herbers S, Fritz SM, Mishra P, Nguyen HVL, Zwier TS. Local and global approaches to treat the torsional barriers of 4-methylacetophenone using microwave spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:074301. [PMID: 32087663 DOI: 10.1063/1.5142401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Sven Herbers
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), CNRS UMR 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Université de Paris, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle, Créteil, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Herbers S, Fritz SM, Mishra P, Kim Y, Slipchenko L, Zwier TS. The unusual symmetry of hexafluoro-o-xylene-A microwave spectroscopy and computational study. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:064302. [PMID: 32061218 DOI: 10.1063/1.5142169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The rotational constants and quartic centrifugal distortion coefficients of hexafluoro-o-xylene were precisely derived from the 8 GHz to 18 GHz gas phase microwave spectrum. In addition, the rotational constants of all singly substituted 13C isotopologues were determined. Instead of the intuitively expected symmetry of C2v, as in o-xylene, calculations with a variety of methods (B3LYP, CAM-B3LYP, ωB97XD, MP2, and coupled-cluster singles, doubles, and perturbative triples) predict a C2 symmetry structure in which the two CF3 groups rotate in opposite directions by about 16°. While the experimental results in this study are not capable of proving this unusual symmetry, they can support future microwave, gas phase electron diffraction or nuclear magnetic resonance studies. From the presented data, a preliminary r0 structure was determined, reproducing the experimental rotational constants with deviations of no more than 15 kHz. Analysis of the interactions between the two CF3 groups using an effective fragment potential approach identifies two major contributions to their interaction, due to exchange-repulsion and electrostatic repulsion, with electrostatic repulsion responsible for the barrier at the C2v geometry.
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- Sven Herbers
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Kökçam-Demir Ü, Goldman A, Esrafili L, Gharib M, Morsali A, Weingart O, Janiak C. Coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (open metal sites) in metal–organic frameworks: design and applications. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:2751-2798. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00609e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 257] [Impact Index Per Article: 64.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The defined synthesis of OMS in MOFs is the basis for targeted functionalization through grafting, the coordination of weakly binding species and increased (supramolecular) interactions with guest molecules.
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- Ülkü Kökçam-Demir
- Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- D-40204 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- D-40204 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- Faculty of Sciences
- Tarbiat Modares University
- Tehran
- Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Department of Chemistry
- Faculty of Sciences
- Tarbiat Modares University
- Tehran
- Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Department of Chemistry
- Faculty of Sciences
- Tarbiat Modares University
- Tehran
- Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Institut für Theoretische Chemie und Computerchemie
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- D-40204 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- D-40204 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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