abstract：:In this work, the poly(ethylene oxide) bulk as one example has been iteratively heated and cooled back using MD simulations to examine the effects of thermal history on the resulting Tg. It is demonstrated that, after the system is equilibrated once at the high temperatures, the simulated Tg does not exhibit a systema...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wu C

更新日期：2017-08-22 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：:In the present work, C-F bond cleavage mediated by the super-reduced form of cobalamin (i.e., CoICbl) was theoretically studied at the ONIOM(BP86/6-311++G(d,p):PM6) + SMD level of theory. Dispersion effects were introduced by employing Grimme's empirical dispersion at the ONIOM(BP86-D/6-311++G(d,p):PM6) + SMD level. I...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cortés-Arriagada D,Toro-Labbe A,Mora JR,Rincón L,Mereau R,Torres FJ

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of non-covalent interactions in self-assembling systems is a topic that has aroused great attention in literature. In this field, the 1,3,5-triazinane-2,4,6-trione or cyanuric acid (CA) is one of the most widely used molecules to formulate self-assembled materials or monolayers. In the present work, a varie...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Petelski AN,Peruchena NM,Pamies SC,Sosa GL

更新日期：2017-08-14 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：: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：:Molecular simulations were carried out to study the sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant with the interleukin 8 (IL8) protein as a model to investigate the influence of amphiphilic molecules on proteins. Simulations for an SDS micelle with an IL8 protein show that both aggregates, which were initially separated, ev...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Dominguez H

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deregulated breakpoint cluster region (Bcr)-Abelson tyrosine kinase (Abl) fusion protein represents an attractive pharmacological target for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The high affinity of monobody AS25 was designed to target the Src homology 2 (SH2) domain of Bcr-Abl, leading to allosteric i...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ji M,Zheng G,Li X,Zhang Z,Jv G,Wang X,Wang J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncovalent interactions in XCN···YO2H (X = F, Cl, Br, I; Y = P, As, Sb) complexes were investigated using ab initio calculations at the MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. There are four different configurations of these complexes, and the complexes are formed via hydrogen bonds, halogen bonds, π-hole interactions, or d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhao Q

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:APUAMA is a free software designed to determine the reaction rate and thermodynamic properties of chemical species of a reagent system. With data from electronic structure calculations, the APUAMA determine the rate constant with tunneling correction, such as Wigner, Eckart and small curvature, and also, include the r...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Euclides HO,P Barreto PR

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：: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：:In this work, the spectroscopic information, stability and aromaticity of the boron-nitrogen azulene and naphthalene molecules are provided by the use of CC2 (geometry optimization, dipole moment, UV-vis spectrum calculations) and DFT (vibrational spectrum and NMR calculations) methodologies. One isomer of the investi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Catão AJ,López-Castillo A

更新日期：2017-04-01 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

abstract：:The addition of C2 to HCN is of relevant interest in astrochemistry. We studied the pathways of this addition to produce CCCN and estimated its reaction rate using the Master Equation in the circumstellar environment. From the results of this study, it was possible to show that a different pathway in the Surface Poten...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： da Silva WB,Albernaz AF,Barreto PR,Correa E

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aqueous solvation of Th and Np in the IV oxidation state was examined using cluster models generated by Monte Carlo simulations and density functional theory embedded within the COSMO continuum model to approximate the effect of bulk water. Our results suggest that the coordination number (CN) for both Th(IV) and ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Amador DH,Sambrano JR,Gargano R,de Macedo LG

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin S has been demonstrated to play a crucial role in the remodeling of extracellular matrix proteins such as elastin and collagen, which in turn contribute to the structural integrity of the cardiovascular wall. Atherosclerotic lesions, aneurysm formation, plaque rupture, thrombosis, and calcification are some ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ahmad S,Siddiqi MI

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a scheme to estimate hydrogen isotope effects on molecular polarizabilities. This approach combines the any-particle molecular orbital method, in which both electrons and H/D nuclei are described as quantum waves, with the auxiliary density perturbation theory, to calculate analytically the polarizability t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Moncada F,Flores-Moreno R,Reyes A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational chemistry investigation was undertaken to shed light on the facilitatory role played by Fe3+ and Al3+ cations in the adsorption of anionic As(V) species by humic acids through the formation of so-called cationic bridges. Geometric and energetic parameters were obtained using density functional theory a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gorb L,Shukla MK

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation, the first hyperpolarizability of alkali and alkaline earth metal derivatives of cyclooctatetraene (COT) has been calculated using BHHLYP and CAM-B3LYP functional for 6-311++G(d,p), 6-311++G(3df,3pd), and aug-pc 2 basis sets. Introduction of Na/K atoms at the axial position of COT and Li, ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Roy RS,Mondal A,Nandi PK

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Dimethylimidazolium dimethylphosphate ([C1mim][DMP]) was observed experimentally to be able to eliminate the atmospheric azeotropic point of acetone and methanol, which is an important azeotrope generally encountered in furfural production and the Fischer-Tropsch process. Here, we employed ab initio calculation to...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yu G,Liu X,Zhang X,Chen X,Liu Z,Abdeltawab AA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optical properties of polymer/solvent systems composed by the polymers P3HT and PolyeraActivInk N2200 under the present of chloroform as solvent are experimentally and theoretically investigated using UV-Vis spectroscopy, molecular dynamics (MD), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The study is focus...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Dias Ledo RM,Leal LA,de Brito Silva PP,da Cunha WF,de Souza LE,Almeida Fonseca AL,Ceschin AM,da Silva Filho DA,Ribeiro Junior LA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the interaction between graphene and polymers is of essential interest when designing novel nanocomposites with reinforced mechanical and electrical properties. In this computational study, the interaction of pristine graphene (PG) and graphene oxide (GO) with a series of functional groups, representativ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Güryel S,Alonso M,Hajgató B,Dauphin Y,Van Lier G,Geerlings P,De Proft F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acene-thiophenes compounds have been used successfully as active materials in thin-film transistors and photodetectors. This work aims at obtaining an adequate theoretical framework to accurately characterize the optical and electronic properties of two such compounds: NaT2 and NaT3. This is done by comparing the resu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： de Sousa LE,Mamiya AA,Kjelstrup-Hansen J,da Silva Filho DA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amorphous molecular simulation to model the reaction species in the synthesis of chemically inert and energetic 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethene (DADNE) explosive material was performed in this work. Nitromethane was selected as the starting reactant to undergo halogenation, nitration, deprotonation, intermolecular conde...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liu MH,Liu CW

更新日期：2017-01-01 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

abstract：:Functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be used for improving the mechanical properties and load transfer in nanocomposites. In this research, the buckling behavior of perfect and defective cross-linked functionalized CNTs with polyethylene (PE) chains is studied employing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Two d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ajori S,Ansari R,Parsapour H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular and quantum mechanics calculations were carried out in a series of tripeptides (GXG, where X = D, N and C) as models of the unfolded states of proteins. The selected central amino acids, especially aspartic acid (D) and asparagine (N) are known to present significant average conformations in partially allowe...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ramos J,Cruz VL

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of cyclic peptide assemblies (CPs) forming a macromolecular nanotube structure was investigated in solvents of different polarity using computational methods. The stability and structure of the complexes were studied using traditional molecular dynamics (MD). Energy of dissociation was estimated from ste...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Vijayakumar V,Vijayaraj R,Peters GH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections continue to exert an enormous impact on global human health. This led experts to emphasize the importance of new measures for preventing HIV infections, including the development of vaccines and novel drugs. In this context, a promising approach involves the use of lectins...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Conceição de Souza R,de Medeiros Muniz G,Siqueira AS,de Melo Lima A,da Silva AP,Gonçalves EC,da Silva Gonçalves Vianez Júnior JL

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we investigate the ground- and excited-state structures as well as the optical properties of a series of five formazanate dyes using state-of-the-art density-based and wavefunction-based methods. The present work is the first to evaluate the properties of formazanate-BF2 dyes with wavefunction-correlated...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Laurent AD,Otten E,Le Guennic B,Jacquemin D

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigated the thermal stability and real-time denaturation of a model mini-protein in four solvents: (1) water, (2) 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium alaninate [EMIM][ALA] (5 mol% in water), (3) methioninate [EMIM][MET] (5 mol% in water), and (4) tryptophanate [EMIM][TRP] (5 mol% ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chevrot G,Fileti EE,Chaban VV

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugate peak refinement (CPR) is a powerful and robust method to search transition states on a molecular potential energy surface. Nevertheless, the method was to the best of our knowledge so far only implemented in CHARMM. In this paper, we present PyCPR, a new Python-based implementation of the CPR algorithm withi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gisdon FJ,Culka M,Ullmann GM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular dynamics method was employed to study the binding energies associated with the cocrystallization (at selected crystal planes) of either 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitro-benzene (TATB), 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene, 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (TATB, FOX-7, and NTO, respectively, all of which are explosives...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Song KP,Ren FD,Zhang SH,Shi WJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antihistamines are frequently used pharmaceuticals that treat the symptoms of allergic reactions. Loratadine (LOR) is an active component of the second generation of selective antihistaminic pharmaceutical usually known as Claritin. Frequent usage of this type of pharmaceuticals imposes the need for understanding thei...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Armaković S,Armaković SJ,Abramović BF

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the chemical reactivities, aromatic properties, and UV-Vis absorption spectra of four constitutional isomers of 1-butoxy-4-methoxybenzenepillar[5]arene with the DFT and TDDFT methods. These characteristics in the gas and solvent phases are discussed on the basis of electronic energy, the highest occupie...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang J,Ren S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite encouraging progress over the past decade, malaria caused by the Plasmodium parasite continues to pose an enormous disease burden and is one of the major global health problems. The extreme challenge in malaria management is the resistance of parasites to traditional monochemotherapies like chloroquine and sul...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sharma D,Soni R,Patel S,Joshi D,Bhatt TK

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human gonadotropin hormone receptor, a G-protein coupled receptor, is the target of many medications used in fertility disorders. Obtaining more structural information about the receptor could be useful in many studies related to drug design. In this study, the structure of human gonadotropin receptor was subjected to...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sakhteman A,Khoddami M,Negahdaripour M,Mehdizadeh A,Tatar M,Ghasemi Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogenoxalate (charge -1) and oxalate (charge -2) anions and their solvated forms were studied by various computational techniques. Ab initio quantum chemical calculations in gas phase, in implicit solvent and microsolvated (up to 32 water molecules) environment were performed in order to explore a potential energy ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kroutil O,Minofar B,Kabeláč M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00