Role of hydrogen bonding interactions within of the conformational preferences of calix[n = 4,6,8]arene: DFT and QTAIM analysis.

abstract：:In the present work, we applied density functional theory and temperature-dependent Gibbs free energy calculations to wurtzoid structures to explain the sensitivity of ZnO nanocrystals towards chlorine molecules. In agreement with experimental findings, our results revealed that chlorine sensing under ambient conditio...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Abdulsattar MA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinase-8 (MMP-8) is the key mediator in initiating type I collagen degradation and is associated with rheumatoid arthritis. In the present study, a pharmacophore hypothesis was developed based on selective non zinc binding inhibitors of MMP-8. The pharmacophore hypothesis was refined manually and val...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kalva S,Vinod D,Saleena LM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometrical structure and electronic properties of bis(10-hydroxybenzo[h]quinolinato)beryllium (Bebq2) molecule and its dimer both in the neutral and in the positively and negatively charged states were studied using quantum-chemical calculations. It is found that the excess charge in the charged systems is locali...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Safonov AA,Bagaturyants AA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular modeling strategy is proposed to describe the temperature (T) dependence of solubility parameter (δ) for the amorphous polymers which exhibit glass-rubber transition behavior. The commercial forcefield "COMPASS" is used to support the atomistic simulations of the polymer. The temperature dependence behavio...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen X,Yuan C,Wong CK,Zhang G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we analyze the interactions of NAD+-dependent deacetylase (Sir2 homolog yeast Hst2) with carba-nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide (ADP-HPD). For the Sir2 homolog, a yeast Hst2 docking procedure was applied. The structure of the protein-ADP-HPD complex obtained during the docking procedure was used...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Czeleń P,Czyżnikowska Ż

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational study was carried out to characterize the hydrogen-bonded dimers of Zoledronate (ZOL), which is used widely in treating skeletal diseases. The stable conformations, hydrogen bonding interactions, IR spectra, thermodynamic properties, and electronic characteristics of nine possible ZOL dimers were studi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liu Q,Li K,Lv G,Li X,Peng Y,Lin J,Qiu L

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical study of the chemisorption and dissociation pathways of water on the Al₁₃ cluster was performed using the hybrid density functional B3LYP method with the 6-311+G(d, p) basis set. The activation energies, reaction enthalpies, and Gibbs free energy of activation for the reaction were determined. Calculatio...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhao JY,Zhao FQ,Gao HX,Ju XH

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prussian Blue is a paradigmatic mixed valence material and a parent compound to a broad family of electronically, optically, and magnetically active materials. Its exact composition varies greatly depending on the preparation route, leading to large variations in its electronic properties. The influence of water molec...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wojdeł JC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detailed decomposition mechanism of nitroglycerin (NG) in the gas phase was studied by examining reaction pathways using density functional theory (DFT) and canonical variational transition state theory combined with a small-curvature tunneling correction (CVT/SCT). The mechanism of NG autocatalytic decomposition ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Pei L,Dong K,Tang Y,Zhang B,Yu C,Li W

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins (IGFBPs) control bioactivity and distribution of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) through high-affinity complex of IGFBP and IGF. To get more insight into the binding interaction of IGF system, the site-directed mutagenesis and force-driving desorption methods were employe...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen X,Zhu S,Duan D,Wu T,Wang Q

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A good understanding of the inhibition mechanism of enzymes exhibiting high levels of similarity is the first step to the discovery of new drugs with selective potential. Examples of such proteins include glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3β) and cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK-2). This article reports the mechanism of s...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Czeleń P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tautomerism in monomers/dimers and association of 2,5-dihydroxy-1,8-naphthyridine was studied at the DFT level recently recommended for studies of non-covalent interactions. Studied dimers are stabilized by double and triple hydrogen-bonding. In some associates the intermolecular proton transfer may take place. Transi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ośmiałowski B

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometries of three isomers of the C2H4O...2HF tri-molecular heterocyclic hydrogen-bonded complex were examined through B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ calculations. Analysis of structural parameters, determination of CHELPG (charge electrostatic potential grid) intermolecular charge transfer, interpretation of infrared stretch...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： de Oliveira BG,Araújo RC,Chagas FF,Carvalho AB,Ramos MN

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of L-serine amino acid functionalization on a graphene plane were investigated through density functional theory calculations compared with those of oxygen functionalization. Three systems of 4 × 4 graphene supercells were created and functionalized by an epoxy group, a hydroxyl group, and an L-serine mole...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Prasert K,Sutthibutpong T

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril (host) and 5,5'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridyl hydrochloride (guest) was studied by 1H NMR, X-ray crystallography, electronic absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence emission spectra and quantum chemistry calculations. This experimental-computational study that indicated the h...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cong H,Zhao YJ,Xue SF,Tao Z,Zhu QJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, it has become clear that the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is a valid target in the treatment of a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, and nicotine addiction. As with most membrane proteins, information on the three-dimensional (3D) structure of nAChR is li...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bisson WH,Westera G,Schubiger PA,Scapozza L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The USFDA has approved pramlintide, commercially named Symlin (sIAPP), as adjunctive therapy for type 2 diabetes (T2D). This analogue of the human amylin peptide (hIAPP) has triple proline substitutions typical of the rat isoform (rIAPP). Recently, it was proposed that pramlintide solubility and aggregation resistance...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Alves NA,Dias LG,Frigori RB

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we explore, both theoretically and experimentally, the general reactivity of alkyl hydrogeno-phenylphosphinates with alcohols. We show that alcohol molecules act exclusively as nucleophilic species, and add to alkyl hydrogeno-phenylphosphinates, leading to pentacoordinated intermediates. These interme...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Javierre G,Fortrie R,Jean M,Moraleda D,Naubron JV,Fotiadu F

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum chemical calculations have been performed to study the all-metal π halogen bonding in Al(4)(2-)···halohydrocarbon complexes. The result shows the existence of the all-metal π halogen bond in the complexes. There are three interaction modes (top, corner, and side) between Al(4)(2-) and halohydrocarbon. The inte...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li R,Li Q,Cheng J,Li W

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ladder-type polyheterofluorenes were investigated theoretically by using density functional theory (DFT) to reveal their optical and electronic properties for applications in organic optoelectronic devices. The incorporation of heteroatoms (B, Si, Ge, N, P, O, and S) into the ladder-type highly fused polyfluorene ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zheng C,Tao Y,Cao JZ,Chen RF,Zhao P,Wu XJ,Huang W

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Grand Canonical Monte Carlo method was used to analyse the phenomenon of adsorption of aromatic compounds (i.e. phenol, toluene, benzoic acid and salicylic acid) on the surface of the titania-silica (TiO2/SiO2) catalyst. We found that different types of interactions play important roles in the adsorption of molecu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Szyja B,Brodzik K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of non-ionic [Ag(Tu)(CN)] (1) and ionic [Ag(Dmtu)2]+[Ag(CN)2]- (2) and [Ag(Imt)2]+[Ag(CN)2]- (3) silver(I) complexes, where Tu = thiourea, Dmtu = N,N'-dimethylthiourea and Imt = imidazoline-2-thione), were modeled by periodic DFT/PAW-PBE calculations; results were in good agreement with experiments. The...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ahmad S,Georgieva I,Hanif M,Monim-Ul-Mehboob M,Munir S,Sohail A,Isab AA

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional (3D) structure of the substrate binding domain (SBD) of human ubiquitin ligase Siah2 (seven in absentia homolog) was constructed based on the homology modeling approach using the Modeller 9v7 program. The molecular dynamics method was utilized to refine the model and it was further assessed by Pr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Anupriya G,Roopa K,Basappa S,Chong YS,Annamalai L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of Wiener's topochemical index-a distance based topochemical index, molecular connectivity topochemical index-an adjacency based topochemical index and eccentric connectivity topochemical index-an adjacency-cum-distance based topochemical index with sodium channel binding activity has been investigate...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gupta M,Madan AK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are a multitude of aromaticity indexes, only a few have a widespread usage. All famous aromaticity indexes are limited: HOMA and FLU are reference-dependent; ELF is π-bond-dependent; PDI is structurally dependent and NICS is ring size dependent. These limitations stimulate the continuous search for bett...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Firme CL,Araújo DM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of crystal modifier 2,2',4,4',6,6'-hexanitrostillbene(HNS) on the reinforcement of crystalline 1,3,5-trinitrotoluene (TNT) was investigated by molecular simulation. The intermolecular interactions between HNS and TNT were revealed by quantum chemistry calculations in detail, strong attractive forces were fo...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Qian W,Shu Y,Li H,Ma Q

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extremely extensive calculations of potential energy surfaces for the parallel-displaced configuration of pyridine dimer systems have been carried out using a dispersion-corrected density functional. Instead of focusing on stationary geometries these calculations provide much deeper insight into the "landscape" of the...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sierański T

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We design four high performance non-fullerene acceptor materials by applying strong electron withdrawing groups at the end of A-D-A-D-A type organic solar cells molecules and compute their different opto-electronic and photovoltaic properties, including absorption spectrum, electron density, solubility strength, charg...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ali U,Javed A,Tallat A,Iqbal J,Raza A

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cellular disorders have been related to the overexpression of the cysteine protease cathepsin B (CatB), such as rheumatic arthritis, muscular dystrophy, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, and tumor metastasis. Therefore, inhibiting CatB may be a way to control unregulated cellular functions and prevent tissue ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Vega-Teijido MA,El Chamy Maluf S,Bonturi CR,Sambrano JR,Ventura ON

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the molecular modeling method was performed to study adsorption interaction between PAMAM molecules of different generations and silicic acid molecules, and the inhibition effect on silica scale were discussed. The results show that adsorption energies of PAMAM molecule of generation 1.0 with amine-termi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen C,Bai N,Zhang Y,Jiao L,Xia M,Chen G

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00