Study of the betulin molecule in a water environment; ab initio and molecular simulation calculations.

abstract：:Two uridine 2',3'-cyclic monophosphate (cUMP) derivatives, 5'-deoxy (DcUMP) and 5'-O-methyl (McUMP), were studied by means of quantum chemical methods. Aqueous solvent effects were estimated based on the isodensity-surface polarized-continuum model (IPCM). Gas phase calculations revealed only slight energy differences...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Grabarkiewicz T,Hoffmann M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermotropic polyurethanes with mesogenic groups in side chains were prepared from two diisocyanates and four diols with stoichiometric ratios of reactive isocyanate (NCO) and hydroxy (OH) groups. Their thermal behavior was determined by differential scanning calorimetry. The effect of structure modifications of the d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Repáková J,Capková P,Studenovský M,Ilavský M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron transport of the 4-(3-nitro-4-tetrafluorophenylthiolate-ethynyl, phenylethynyl) benzenethiolate (S-FNPPB-o) molecule assembled in two Au (111) electrodes, was studied using two approaches: in the first approximate approach an electric field was applied to the pure molecule attached to two thiolate ends fi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Serrato-Villegas L,Gallo M,Delgado-Ríos M,Romero MT,Glossman-Mitnik D

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to introduce effectively the external electric fields into the explosive systems, the change trends of the strengths of trigger linkages, nitro group charges, and explosive sensitivities of 1,4-dinitroimidazole-N-oxide (1,4-DNIO) were investigated in the external electric fields at the B3LYP/6-311++G(2d,p) an...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang BG,Ren FD,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-11-28 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 aquatic leech, Theromyzon tessulatum, secretes a proteinaceous cocoon with extraordinary physical properties (e.g., proteolytic, thermal resiliency). The deduced amino acid sequence of a major protein (Tcp-Theromyzon cocoon protein) from the T. tessulatum cocoon wall has been used to model the endogenous structure...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mason TA,McIlroy PJ,Shain DH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical study of the photoluminescence (PL) of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) using density functional theory (DFT) theory is reported in this work. The DWCNTs are of the armchair/armchair type and the structures studied have the arrangements (3,3)/(2,2), (8,8)/(4,4), (12,12)/(6,6), (16,16)/(8,8), (6,6)...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Victoria APR,de la Luz ADH,Juárez JM,Espinosa-Torres ND,Robles-Águila MJ,López JAL,Juárez-Díaz G

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Faced with the worldwide spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial strains, together with a lack of any appropriate treatment, urgent steps to combat infectious diseases should be taken. Usually, bacterial components are studied to understand, by analogy, the functioning of human proteins. However, molecular data ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wiczew D,Borowska A,Szkaradek K,Biegus T,Wozniak K,Pyclik M,Sitarska M,Jaszewski L,Radosinski L,Hanus-Lorenz B,Kraszewski S

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Both [5]-circulene and [7]-circulene can be selected to design the molecular tweezers theoretically using the DFT method. Leaning on the cyclic polymerization mechanism, we obtain four new tweezer compounds. Theoretical results offer that tweezer compound (I) is additionally stable than other compounds because it has ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Issa AA,Obayes HR

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum chemical calculations on the isomerization of 24-methylenecycloartanol are described. An energetically viable mechanism, with a rate-determining protonation step, is proposed. This rearrangement may find applicability in tests for determining if an olive oil has been refined. ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wedler HB,Pemberton RP,Lounnas V,Vriend G,Tantillo DJ,Wang SC

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents a theoretical study of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanotubes obtained from the (100), (110) and (111) crystal planes of zincblende structure in order to evaluate the electronic properties. The DFT/B3LYP/6-31G method was used to predict structures and stabilities. It was found that nanotubes from the (11...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Silva JCF,Dos Santos JD,Taft CA,Martins JBL,Longo E

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanosecond molecular dynamics using the Ewald summation method have been performed to elucidate the structural and energetic role of the closing base pair in loop-loop RNA duplexes neutralized by Mg2+ counterions in aqueous phases. Mismatches GA, CU and Watson-Crick GC base pairs have been considered for closing the l...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Golebiowski J,Antonczak S,Fernandez-Carmona J,Condom R,Cabrol-Bass D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), the detailed degradation mechanisms of a typical explosive of 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT) can be investigated by the density function theory (DFT) method at the SMD/M062X/6-311+G(d) level. Several possible degradation routes for DNT were explored in the current study. The results s...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhou Y,Yang Z,Yang H,Zhang C,Liu X

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures, energetics, as well as several important chemical parameters, of antiretroviral drugs - nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) - and natural deoxyribonucleosides in both neutral, and positively and negatively charged states, are investigated. These studies are carried out within the frame ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kumar V,Kishor S,Ramaniah LM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ab initio calculations have been performed using the complete basis set model (CBS-QB3) to study the reaction mechanism of butane radical (C(4)H(9)•) with oxygen (O(2)). On the calculated potential energy surface, the addition of O(2) to C(4)H(9)• forms three intermediates barrierlessly, which can undergo subsequent i...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Du HC,Gong XD

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminus tail (G144-T149) of the hyperthermophile Sulfolobus tokodaii (Sto-RNase HI) plays an important role in this protein's hyperstabilization and may therefore be a good protein stability tag. Detailed understanding of the structural and dynamic effects of C-terminus tail deletion is required for gaining ins...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen L,Zhang JL,Zheng QC,Chu WT,Xue Q,Zhang HX,Sun CC

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clindamycin, a lincosamide antibiotic, binds to 23S ribosomal RNA and inhibits protein synthesis. The A2058G mutation in 23S RNA results in bacterial resistance to clindamycin. To understand the influence of this mutation on short-range interactions of clindamycin with 23S RNA, we carried out full-atom molecular dynam...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kulczycka-Mierzejewska K,Sadlej J,Trylska J

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures and stabilities of eleven N13+ and N13- isomers have been investigated with second-order Moller-Plesset (MP2) and density functional theory (DFT) methods. Five N13+ isomers and six N13- isomers are all reasonable local minima on their potential energy hypersurfaces. The most stable N13+ cation is struct...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yin PG,Li QS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This theoretical study presents a comparative analysis of the molecular properties of heterocyclic (C2H4O...HF and C2H5...HF) and homocyclic (C3H6...HF) hydrogen-bonded complexes. Initially, the equilibrium geometries of these complexes were analyzed in detail at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level of theory. Subsequently, ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Oliveira BG,Araújo RC,Carvalho AB,Ramos MN

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional pharmacophore models of human adenosine receptor A(₂A) antagonists were developed based on 23 diverse compounds selected from a large number of A(₂A) antagonists. The best pharmacophore model, Hypo1, contained five features: one hydrogen bond donor , three hydrophobic points and one ring aromatic. It...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Xu Z,Cheng F,Da C,Liu G,Tang Y

更新日期：2010-12-01 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 efficiency and high specificity of tobacco etch virus protease (TEVp) has made it widely used for cleavage of recombinant fusion proteins. However, TEVp suffers from a few intrinsic defects such as self-cleavage, poorly expressed in E. coli and less soluble. So some mutants were designed to improve it, such as S21...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang Y,Zhu GF,Ren SY,Han YG,Luo Y,Du LF

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The triplet-triplet absorption spectra of three newly synthesized N-substituted 4,5,6,7-tetrachlorophthalimides (TCP) were measured experimentally and calculated with density functional theory. The heavy atom effect increases the intersystem crossing rate, and the transient triplet absorbance could be measured. Fluore...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kelterer AM,Mansha A,Iftikhar FJ,Zhang Y,Wang W,Xu JH,Grampp G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten functionals were used to assess their capability to compute a local reactivity descriptor coming from the Conceptual Density Functional Theory on a group of iron-based organometallic compounds that have been synthesized by Zohuri, G.H. et al. in 2010; these compounds bear the following substituent groups: H-, O2N-...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Martínez-Araya JI,Glossman-Mitnik D

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The halogen bonding interactions between C6F5I and a series of transition metal monohalides trans-[M(X)(2-C5NF4)-(PR3)2] (M = Ni, Pd, Pt; X = F, Cl, Br; R = Me, Cy) have been studied with quantum chemical calculations. Optimized geometries of the halogen bonding complexes indicate that angles C1-I···X are basically li...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cheng N,Liu Y,Zhang C,Liu C

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive molecular dynamics simulations are conducted to identify material modifications which can improve strength and reduce hysteresis losses at the nanointerfaces formed between silica, silane coupling agent (SCA) and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), all of which are important ingredients of green tyres. Impro...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Joseph E,Swaminathan N,Kannan K

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the massively parallel computation of absolute binding free energy with a well-equilibrated system (MP-CAFEE) has been developed. The present study aimed to determine whether the MP-CAFEE method is useful for drug discovery research. In the drug discovery process, it is important for computational chemists t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ohno K,Mitsui T,Tanida Y,Matsuura A,Fujitani H,Niimi T,Orita M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that the anti-HIV activities of reverse transcriptase inhibitors can be related quantitatively to properties of the electrostatic potentials on their molecular surfaces. We now introduce the technique of using only segments of the drug molecules in developing such expressions. If an improved cor...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Brinck T,Jin P,Ma Y,Murray JS,Politzer P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work a molecular modeling study was carried out based on a series of organotin(IV) derivatives which were complexed with ONO-Donor type Schiff base ligands to build up a statistical data pool for researchers. For this purpose, various properties of the selected complexes such as energies, band gaps, chemical r...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Şirikci G,Ancın NA,Öztaş SG

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unsaturated trinuclear iron fluoroborylene complexes Fe3(BF)3(CO) n (n = 7, 6) have been studied using density functional theory (DFT). Relatively complicated potential energy surfaces are found with nine and eight structures within 15 kcal mol-1 of the lowest energy structures for the Fe3(BF)3(CO)7 and Fe3(BF)3(C...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Xu L,Li QS,King RB

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00