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：:We use density functional theory-based calculations to study structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of two key reaction intermediates on a hematite, [Formula: see text]-Fe2O3, photoanode during the solar-driven water splitting reaction. Both intermediates contain an oxygen atom bonded to a surface iron atom. ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Poaty LT,Ulman K,Seriani N,M'Passi-Mabiala B,Gebauer R

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexes formed between TX3-ZX2 (T = C, Si, Ge; Z = P, As, Sb; X = F, Cl) and NH3 were studied at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ(PP) level. For each TX3-ZX2, two types of complex were obtained. For CX3-ZX2, NH3 is inclined to approach the σ-hole on the Z atom, forming a pnicogen bond. For TX3-ZX2 (T = Si and Ge), however, t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li Y,Xu Z

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracetamol is a relatively safe analgesia/antipyretic drug without the risks of addiction, dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal when used alone. However, when administrated in an opioid/paracetamol combination product, which often contains a large quantity of paracetamol, it can be potentially dangerous due to the r...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang Y,Lin W,Wu N,He X,Wang J,Feng Z,Xie XQ

更新日期：2018-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed investigation of the structure, electronic, spectroscopic, and optical properties of a series of transition metal-doped tetraphenylporphyrins (TM-TPP; TM = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn) is performed under density functional framework. The structure and stability of tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) and TM-TPPs are unders...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shah EV,Kumar V,Sharma BK,Rajput K,Chaudhary VP,Roy DR

更新日期：2018-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In erythrocytes, actively multiplying Plasmodium falciparum parasites exhibit a unique signature of virulence associated histone modifications, thereby epigenetically regulating the expression of the majority of genes. Histone acetylation is one such modification, effectuated and maintained by the dynamic interplay of...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kumar A,Dhar SK,Subbarao N

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The CFIm25 subunit of the heterotetrameric cleavage factor Im (CFIm) is a critical factor in the formation of the poly(A) tail at mRNA 3' end, regulating the recruitment of polyadenylation factors, poly(A) site selection, and cleavage/polyadenylation reactions. We previously reported the homologous protein (EhCFIm25) ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ospina-Villa JD,García-Contreras J,Rosas-Trigueros JL,Ramírez-Moreno E,López-Camarillo C,Zamora-López B,Marchat LA,Zamorano-Carrillo A

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The DFT potential energy hypersurfaces of closed-shell nitrogen clusters up to ten atoms are explored via a genetic algorithm (GA). An atom-atom distance threshold parameter, controlled by the user, and an "operator manager" were added to the standard evolutionary procedure. Both B3LYP and PBE exchange-correlation fun...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Silva MX,Silva FT,Galvão BRL,Braga JP,Belchior JC

更新日期：2018-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of the copper(I)-catalyzed cyclopropanation reaction for methyl diazoacetate with both (Z)- and (E)-but-2-ene stereoisomers has been studied using the 6-311++G(d,p) basis set by means of M06-2X and O3LYP functionals. According to both methods, the rate-limiting step is the formation of a copper-carbene i...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Angulo B,Herrerías CI,Hormigón Z,Mayoral JA,Salvatella L

更新日期：2018-07-05 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 influences of the temperature and the BDNPA/BDNPF (A3) content on the mechanical properties of and the binding energies between hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (HNIW) and cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB)/A3 were studied via molecular dynamics simulations. The morphology of HNIW in acetone was simulated using an atta...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Lan G,Jin S,Wang D,Li J,Lu Z,Jing B,Li L

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Density functional theory and its time-dependent extension (DFT, TDDFT) were employed to establish the feasibility of using a series of 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacenes (BODIPYs) in photodynamic therapy. Their absorption electronic spectra, singlet-triplet energy gaps, and spin-orbit matrix elements were co...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ponte F,Mazzone G,Russo N,Sicilia E

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-tetrazole derivatives with conjugated structures were designed and investigated in this study. Using quantum chemistry methods, the crystal structures, electrostatic potentials (ESPs), multicenter bond orders, HOMO-LUMO energy gaps, and detonation properties of the derivatives were calculated. As expected, these...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sun S,Lu M

更新日期：2018-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction mechanism of Ru-catalyzed cycloisomerization of 2-alkynylanilides to 3-substituted indole or 2-substituted indole was analyzed at the B3LYP level of density functional theory. The solvation effect of the system was also considered by SMD model. The calculation results show that the reaction system first f...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang X,Li S,Wei X,Lei Y

更新日期：2018-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionic liquids (ILs) have been extensively studied and are considered green solvents capable of replacing traditional organic solvents. In this study, seven 1,2,3-triazolium derivative ILs have been synthesized. In order to study the effect of the cation nature on the ILs cytotoxicity, their structures were first ident...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Glanzmann N,Carmo AML,Antinarelli LMR,Coimbra ES,Costa LAS,da Silva AD

更新日期：2018-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugated organic polymers represent an important class of materials for varied technological applications including in active layers of chemical sensors. In this context, polyaniline (PANI) derivatives are promising candidates, mainly due to their high chemical stability, good processability, versatility of synthesi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mandú LO,Batagin-Neto A

更新日期：2018-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the N-(hydroxymethyl)acetamide (model molecule of ceramide) dimers have been fully optimized at B3LYP/6-311++G** level. The intermolecular hydrogen bonding interaction energies have been calculated using the B3LYP/6-311++G**, B3LYP/6-311++G(2df,2p), MP2(full)/6-311++G** and MP2(full)/6-311++G(2df,2p)...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Tang HF,Zhong H,Zhang LL,Gong MX,Song SQ,Tian QP

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Several noble-gas-containing molecules XNgY were observed experimentally. However, the bonding in such systems is still not understood. Using natural bond orbital and natural resonance theory (NBO/NRT) methods, the present work investigated bonding of the title molecules. The results show that each of the studied XNgY...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Song J,Su Y,Jia Y,Chen L,Zhang G

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism for the hydroxyl-radical-induced depolymerization of cellulose under alkaline conditions in air was investigated using density functional theory at the B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level as well as electron transfer theory. The pathway for the depolymerization of cellulose was obtained theoretically and H abstracti...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shao C,Shi K,Hua Q,Zhang L,Dai Y,You W,Liu Y,Li C,Zhang C

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The adsorption behavior of sulfur-based toxic gases (H2S and SO2) on armchair silicene nanoribbons (ASiNRs) was investigated using first-principles density functional theory (DFT). Being a zero band gap material, application of bulk silicene is limited in nanoelectronics, despite its high carrier mobility. By restrict...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Walia GK,Randhawa DKK

更新日期：2018-03-16 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 analysis of the electronic-structure changes along IRC paths for double-proton-transfer reactions in the formamide dimer (R1), formamide-thioformamide system (R2), and the thioformamide dimer (R3) was performed based on the extended-transition-state natural orbitals for chemical valence (ETS-NOCV) partitioning of ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Talaga P,Brela MZ,Michalak A

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:BsoBI is a type II restriction endonuclease belonging to the EcoRI family. There is only one previously published X-ray structure for this endonuclease: it shows a homodimer of BsoBI completely encircling DNA in a tunnel. In this work, molecular dynamics simulations were employed to elucidate possible ways in which DN...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Štěpán J,Kabelka I,Koča J,Kulhánek P

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of the fascinating history of anesthetics and the many critical findings that have improved our understanding of anesthetic activity is followed by an expanded analysis of the electrostatic potentials of 27 molecules and two noble gases with anesthetic activities ranging from high to totally inactive. We agai...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shields ZP,Seybold PG,Murray JS

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential energy surfaces in gas phase and in aqueous solution for the nitration of benzene, chlorobenzene, and phenol have been elucidated with density functional theory at the M06-2X/6-311G(d,p) level combined with the polarizable continuum solvent model (PCM). Three reaction intermediates have been identified a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liljenberg M,Stenlid JH,Brinck T

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The complementarity plot (CP) is an established validation tool for protein structures, applicable to both globular proteins (folding) as well as protein-protein complexes (binding). It computes the shape and electrostatic complementarities (Sm, Em) for amino acid side-chains buried within the protein interior or inte...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Basu S

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of selenium species in some biological processes involves the generation of ionic and radical intermediates such as RSe●, RSe-, RSeO●, and RSeO-, among others. We performed a theoretical study of the possible mechanisms for the reaction of the two simplest Se radicals-the hydroselenyl (HSe●) and seleneni...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Vega-Teijido MA,Kieninger M,Ventura ON

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:First principles calculations have been performed for C60@C180 carbon double-layer endofullerenes with up to: three diatomic radioiodine molecules (131I2), two potassium radio-iodide (K131I), and three sodium radio-iodide (Na131I) inside. The plane-wave pseudopotential (PP) method within the general gradient approxima...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Valderrama A,Reynoso R,Gómez RW,Quintana M,Romero M

更新日期：2017-12-04 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：:Molecular dynamics simulations are conducted to investigate the buckling characteristics of functionalized carbon nanotubes (f-CNTs) under axial compression at various temperatures. The influences of functionalization, content of functional groups, chirality and diameter, as well as temperature on buckling response of...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mehralian F,Tadi Beni Y

更新日期：2017-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Schemes I and II were missing. These important components are given below. ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Roy RS,Mondal A,Nandi PK

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of the hydrogenoxalate (bioxalate, charge -1) and oxalate (charge -2) anions were developed for classical molecular dynamics (CMD) simulations and parametrized against ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) data from our previous study (Kroutil et al. (2016) J Mol Model 22:210). The interactions of the anions with...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kroutil O,Předota M,Kabeláč M

更新日期：2017-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiamoebin I (AAM-I) and zervamicin II (Zrv-IIB) are peptaibols that exert antibiotic activity through the insertion/disruption of cell membranes. In this study, we investigated how the folding of these peptaibols are affected when some of their native residues are replaced with proline analogues and asymmetrical D-α...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Castro TG,Micaêlo NM,Melle-Franco M

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of neuropathic pain is very complex and there are few drugs approved for this purpose. Among the studied compounds in the literature, sigma-1 receptor antagonists have shown to be promising. In order to develop QSAR studies applied to the compounds of 1-arylpyrazole derivatives, multivariate analyses hav...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Oliveira AA,Lipinski CF,Pereira EB,Honorio KM,Oliveira PR,Weber KC,Romero RAF,de Sousa AG,da Silva ABF

更新日期：2017-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The concepts of polarization (induction), charge transfer and covalent bonding contributions are discussed in terms of weak interactions. They are shown to be different incarnations of the same phenomenon, so that using polarization to describe them is most consistent as it is the only real, measurable and uniquely de...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Clark T

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fbw7-Skp1 complex is an essential component in the formation and development of the mammalian cardiovascular system; the complex interaction is mediated through binding of Skp1 C-terminal peptide (qGlu-peptide) to the F-box domain of Fbw7. By visually examining the crystal structure, we identified a typical cation...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhou J,Wang YS

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate comparison of the interaction of furan, pyrrole, and thiophene with different gaseous analytes is vital not only for understanding the sensing mechanism of corresponding polymers but also for rational design of new materials. In the present study, DFT calculations at (M05-2X/Aug-cc-PVDZ) have been performe...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sajid H,Mahmood T,Ayub K

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the low-lying states of several isomers of ScSi n-/0 (n = 4-6) were investigated with the B3LYP functional and CASPT2 method. The ground states of the anionic clusters were predicted to be the singlet states of the trigonal bipyramid ScSi4- (A-ScSi4-), the face-capped trigonal bipyramid ScSi5- (A-ScSi5-)...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Nguyen MT,Tran QT,Tran VT

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:B3LYP, PBE, M06-2X, B2PLYP, BN2PLYP-D, ωB97X-D, and MP2 levels of theory, in combination with the 6-311++G(d,p) and cc-pVTZ basis sets were comprehensively assessed for their ability to reproduce experimental FOX-7 structural and detonation data. ωB97X-D/cc-pVTZ, B3LYP/cc-pVTZ, and M06-2X/cc-pVTZ provided highly accur...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jeong K,Jeon Y,Kwon S

更新日期：2017-09-01 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