abstract：:Density functional theory (DFT) has been applied to understand the influence of various linkages on the energetic properties and stability of the polynitro-biphenyl compounds. Structures were optimized using the B3PW91/6-31G(d,p) level, and the heats of formation (HOFs) were computed by employing the selected isodesmi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Nirwan A,Devi A,Ghule VD

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, scientists are trying to develop low-cost fullerene free acceptors for small organic photovoltaic cells in order to overcome the limitations of fullerene derivatives. Current research work deals with theoretical study on three non-fullerene acceptors based on indaceno, dithiophene core, and thiophene bridge ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ajmal M,Ali U,Javed A,Tariq A,Arif Z,Iqbal J,Shoaib M,Ahmed T

更新日期：2019-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the effect of the external electric field (EF) on the drug delivery performance of peptide-based metal-organic framework (MPF) for 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) drug is investigated by means of the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. It is found that the strength interaction of drug molecule with MPF is decre...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shahabi M,Raissi H

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of CO2 and H2O on the behavior of shale gas confined in calcite [104] slit-like nanopore is investigated using molecular dynamics simulation technique. The study is relevant as the advancement of enhance gas recovery (EGR) technologies requires in-depth atomistic understanding of the hydrocarbons, water, ca...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Berghe G,Kline S,Burket S,Bivens L,Johnson D,Singh R

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In quantum chemical calculations, there are two facts of particular relevance: the position-dependent mass Schrödinger equation (PDMSE) and the exponential-type potentials used in the theoretical study of vibrational properties for diatomic molecules. Accordingly, in this work, the treatment of exactly solvable PDMSE ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ovando G,Peña JJ,Morales J,López-Bonilla J

更新日期：2019-08-31 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：:We present the synthesis and structure determination for two thiohydantoin compounds (5-benzylidene-2-sulfanylideneimidazolidin-4-one and 5-cinnamylidene-2-sulfanylideneimidazolidin-4-one), proposed as potential novel fungicides. The exact chemical structure of these molecules has not yet been determined since they ca...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kobyłka K,Żuchowski G,Tejchman W,Zborowski KK

更新日期：2019-08-24 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：:The role of resultant gradient-information concept, reflecting the kinetic energy of electrons, in shaping the molecular electronic structure and reactivity preferences of open reactants is examined. This quantum-information descriptor combines contributions due to both the modulus (probability) and phase (current) co...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Nalewajski RF

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of a variety of modern computational methods on the structure of biologically relevant zinc complexes is studied. Different density functionals and a Hartree-Fock-based method, scalar-relativistic effects, and basis set integration grid choices, among others, are assessed for set of high-resolution crystall...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Savasci G,Borges-Martínez M,Berger RJF,Ochsenfeld C,Mera-Adasme R

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, DFT calculations are carried out on domestically designed 7-methyl-2-phenyl-5'H-spiro[chromene-4,2'-chromeno[3,4-e][1,3]oxazin]-5'-one spiropyran and merocyanine derivatives to recognize alkali and alkaline earth metal ions. Detection of these metal ions can be attained by exploiting the variatio...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Arif AM,Yousaf A,Zhong RL,Akhtar M,Muhammad S,Xu HL,Su ZM

更新日期：2019-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism and origin of selectivity for [3 + 2]-cycloaddition (32CA) reactions between thioketone and carbohydrate-derived nitrones in THF were investigated by using the density functional theory (DFT) at the M06-2X/6-311+G(d,p)//M06-2X/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory combined with the solvation SMD model. The calcula...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yang J,Zhang Y,Yang Y,Xue Y

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantum mechanical density functional theory (DFT) was successfully developed for the estimation of pKa values of chlorinated phenols in aqueous solution with a precision of 0.9 pKa units. The MP2/6-311++G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-31+G(d) level of theory was used for the gas phase calculation. For computation in the solution p...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kheirjou S,Imanzadeh G,Rezaei H,Safari N

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical properties of graphene- and carbon nanotube-reinforced Araldite LY 5052/Aradur HY 5052 epoxy resins were investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The COMPASS II force field was implemented in the simulations. Mechanical properties of the reinforced araldite/aradur resin epoxy system with CNT reveal t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Faragi S,Hamedani A,Alahyarizadeh G,Minuchehr A,Aghaie M,Arab B

更新日期：2019-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactivity of the 5-arylidenerhodanine and 5-arylideneisorhodanine derivatives in reactions with dimethyl maleate was computationally studied at the DFT(M06-2X)/6-311+G(d,p) theory level. Eight stereoisomers of the reaction products were considered. The effect of the solvent was taken into account by means of the ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Tejchman W,Michalski M,Zborowski KK,Berski S

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 (PDK1) plays a crucial role in the signal transduction of massive growth-related protein kinases. In this work, a computational study has been performed to investigate the binding pose of the hydrolyzed product of SBF1 (SBF1-) with PDK1. The binding pose was predicted by V...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liu W,Li P,Mei Y

更新日期：2019-06-13 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：:Adsorption of three heavy metals (Ni, Pd, Cd) onto (10,0) single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) was investigated using density functional theory (DFT). Metals were adsorbed to both inside and outside of SWCNT and their structures and electronic properties [e.g., band structures and density of states (DOS)] were calcul...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Aghashiri A,Fotooh FK,Hashemian S

更新日期：2019-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural parameters, Raman/IR spectra, and vibrational and thermodynamic properties of α-RDX and γ-RDX were investigated by performing first-principles calculations using the CASTEP program. The obtained structural parameters and vibrational frequencies of the internal modes of α-RDX are consistent with previous...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhu SH,Qin H,Zeng W,Cai YM,Jin XY,Wang YH,Liu FS,Tang B,Liu QJ

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal of AsH3 from synthesis gas is crucial to prevent methanol synthesis catalyst from poisoning. In this work, Ti-, Mn-, Fe-, Co-, Ni-, Cu-, and Ag-doped graphene were proposed and their adsorption capabilities for AsH3 and CO were investigated by DFT method. The optimized structures, adsorption energies, elec...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li Y,Sun X,Zhou L,Ning P,Tang L

更新日期：2019-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The computational fragility spectra of atoms on the reaction path are presented for a selection of canonical processes represented by an amino group rotation around the (X)HC-NH(Y) bond (X = O, S; Y=H, CH3). Calculated spectra are found to very accurately describe the variation of atomic valence. Significant linear co...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zaklika J,Komorowski L,Ordon P

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Various kinetic studies of the addition of hydrogen halides to alkenes were carried out in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1970s. Since then, there have been theoretical analyses of several aspects of alkene reactivity and regioselectivity during hydrohalogenation. A few works have studied the influence of the hydrogen halide w...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Firme CL

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural hIFNγ is a glycoprotein with two N-glycosylation sites in each monomer chain, which are independently and differentially glycosylated. Although glycosylation is not necessary for the activity of the cytokine, it was proposed that it protects the cytokine from proteolytic degradation and thus extends its circul...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Lilkova E,Petkov P,Ilieva N,Krachmarova E,Nacheva G,Litov L

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A coarse-grained Brownian dynamics model was used to simulate two proteins of similar sizes inside model membrane pores of varying size and hydrophobicity. The two proteins, which have radii of gyration of approximately 9.5 Å in their native states, are a 36-residue hydrophilic villin head piece (HP-36) and a 40-resid...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang Y,Zhang Y,McCready MJ,Maginn EJ

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of bacterial infections is currently threatened by the emergence of pathogenic bacteria producing β-lactamase, which catalyzes the hydrolysis of β-lactams. Although the hydrolysis of the substrate nitrocefin by a metallo-β-lactamase, namely β-lactamase N1 from USA300 (a typical methicillin-resistant Stap...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yu Y,Wang X,Gao Y,Yang Y,Sun L,Wang G,Deng X,Niu X

更新日期：2019-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranolytic anticancer peptides (ACPs) are drawing increasing attention as potential future therapeutics against cancer, due to their ability to hinder the development of cellular resistance and their potential to overcome common hurdles of chemotherapy, e.g., side effects and cytotoxicity. In this work, we present ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Grisoni F,Neuhaus CS,Hishinuma M,Gabernet G,Hiss JA,Kotera M,Schneider G

更新日期：2019-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The average pull-out force and interaction energy of polyethylene (PE) cross-linked functionalized carbon nanotubes (cfCNTs) embedded in polymer matrices (PE-cfCNTs@polymers) was studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Accordingly, the pull-out process of PE-cfCNTs from inside polymer matrices, i.e., Aramid...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Haghighi S,Ansari R,Ajori S

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the dynamics of an electron subjected to a uniform electric field in the scope of a tight-binding electron-phonon interacting approach. We aimed at describing the transport in a one-dimensional lattice in which the on-site energies are distributed according to a Fibonacci sequence. Within this physical...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： de Brito PE,Enders BG,Ribeiro LA Jr,Nazareno HN

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an ab initio based molecular mechanics model for prominent additives used in lubricants to moderate oil-steel interfaces. The force field is created for zinc dialkyldithiophosphate and calcium sulfonate charge neutral ligand-ion-ligand complexes and benchmarked to the widely spread generalized amber force f...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ectors P,Zahn D

更新日期：2019-03-25 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：:Studying the electrochemical characteristics is an important step for determining interactions between molecules and the chemical environment. Moreover, the electrochemical evaluation of dyes is highly needed to establish the behavior of electro-active chemical species inside dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Four c...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ortega E,Bernède JC,Ramírez AMR,Louarn G,Díaz FR,Cattin L,Del Valle MA

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-tuning of magnetic states via an understanding of spin injection on the edge of graphene nanoribbons should allow for greater flexibility of the design of graphene-based spintronics. On the basis of calculations, we predict that coupling constants of the exchange interaction in the series of nitroxide-functionali...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Morozov V,Tretyakov E

更新日期：2019-02-09 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：:Nitriles are important chemical species in organic transformations, material chemistry, and environmental sciences. Nitriles are used as cyanating reagents in many organic reactions, where the C-CN bond dissociation has an important role. The reactivity of nitriles can be better understood by studying the bond dissoci...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kosar N,Ayub K,Gilani MA,Mahmood T

更新日期：2019-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Low temperature oxidation of CO to CO2 is an important process for the environment. Similarly adsorption of CO from the releasing sources is also of major concern today. Whereas the potential of gold and silver clusters is well proven for the catalysis of the above mentioned reaction, the potential of aluminum (Al) cl...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Samanta B,Sengupta T,Pal S

更新日期：2018-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the 4,4',4″-tris(N,N-phenyl-3-methylphenylamino)triphenylamine (m-MTDATA) molecule and its dimer in their neutral and positively charged forms were studied by performing quantum-chemical calculations at the Hartree-Fock (HF) and density functional theory (DFT) levels of theory using several exchange-...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Safonov A,Rykova E,Bagaturyants A

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report theoretical research into the interaction of the drug tamoxifen drug with tripeptides found in the tumor environment-specifically, asparagine-glycine-arginine (NGR) and arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD). Reactivity parameters of these tripeptides were calculated and their intrinsic reactivities and ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Landeros-Martínez LL,Glossman-Mitnik D,Flores-Holguín N

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of electron transport conduction through a guanine base of DNA was investigated and then compared with another component of DNA, i.e., cytosine. A mathematical approach based on the jellium model using non-equilibrium Green's function combined with semi empirical extended Huckel theory was applied usin...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Vohra R,Sawhney RS

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the kinase inhibitory potential of natural products that could be utilized in lung cancer therapy in the near future, a pharmacophore-based activity profiling protocol using parallel pharmacophore-based virtual screening of ZINC-a natural product database-was employed. The work presented here is based on ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Singh PK,Silakari O

更新日期：2018-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The density functional theory method using the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level of theory was used to perform isoenergetic maps in order to determine the lower energy conformers of four disaccharides constituting alginic acids, which are based on β-D-mannuronic (M) and α-L-guluronic acid (G), called MM, GG, MG, and GM. The pref...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bekri L,Zouaoui-Rabah M,Springborg M,Rahal MS

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00