abstract：:Using density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD), we studied the interaction of a titanium atom with a half of a C60 fullerene (i.e., C30), formed from the corannulene structure with a pentagonal base. We considered atmospheric pressure and 300 K. We found that the most stable adsorption of the titani...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Canales M,Ramírez-de-Arellano JM,Magana LF

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density functional calculations have been used to investigate the interactions of 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-3-methylimidazolium ([C2OHmim](+))-based ionic liquids (hydroxyl ILs) with water (H2O), methanol (CH3OH), and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). It was found that the cosolvent molecules interact with the anion and cation of e...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhao S,Tian X,Ren Y,Wang J,Liu J,Ren Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very recently, an unprecedented novel monometallic cluster of fullerenes entrapping a yttrium cyanide (YCN) cluster inside a popular C82 cage YCN@Cs(6)-C82 was synthesized and characterized. Inspired by this investigation, four non-IPR YCN@C1(17459)-C76, YCN@C2v(19138)-C76, YCN@C2(17646)-C76, and YCN@C1(17894)-C76 (1,...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gao FW,Xu HL,Su ZM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total energies, growth patterns, equilibrium geometries, relative stabilities, hardnesses, intramolecular charge transfer, and magnetic moments of HoSi n (n = 12-20) clusters have been reexamined theoretically using two different density functional schemes in combination with relativistic small-core Stuttgart effe...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hou L,Yang J,Liu Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD44 is a cell-surface glycoprotein and receptor for hyaluronan, one of the major components of the tumor extracellular matrix. There is evidence that the interaction between CD44 and hyaluronan promotes breast cancer metastasis. Recently, the molecule F-19848A was shown to inhibit hyaluronan binding to receptor CD44 ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Nguyen TT,Tran DP,Pham Dinh Quoc Huy,Hoang Z,Carloni P,Van Pham P,Nguyen C,Li MS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of silaspiropentane from addition of singlet silacyclopropylidene 1 and silacyclopropylidenoid 8 to ethylene has been investigated separately at the B3LYP, X3LYP, WB97XD, and M05-2X theories using the 6-31+G(d,p) basis set. The silacycloproylidenoid addition follows a stepwise route. In contrast, a conce...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yildiz CB,Azizoglu A

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) are important in insect olfactory recognition. These proteins bind specifically to insect semiochemicals and induce their seeking, mating, and alarm behaviors. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations were performed to provide computational insight into the interaction mode ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang S,Sun Y,Du S,Qin Y,Duan H,Yang X

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:In this study, the newly synthesized non-centrosymmetric, 4-dimethylamino-3'-isothiocyanatochalcone (PKA) compound was presented. This compound belongs to the chalcone group, and its main purpose is to be used in biomedical imaging as a fluorescence dye. For this reason, the linear and nonlinear properties in solvents...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Krawczyk P,Pietrzak M,Janek T,Jędrzejewska B,Cysewski P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed density functional theory (DFT) calculations on the structure and harmonic frequencies of model all-trans and all-cis polyenes were undertaken. For the first time, we report on the convergence of selected B3LYP/6-311++G** and BLYP/6-311++G** calculated structural parameters resulting from a systematic increas...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kupka T,Buczek A,Broda MA,Stachów M,Tarnowski P

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilayer-shaped compression and slide models were employed to investigate the complex sensitive mechanisms of cocrystal explosives in response to external mechanical stimuli. Here, density functional theory (DFT) calculations implementing the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) of Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) w...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gao HF,Zhang SH,Ren FD,Gou RJ,Han G,Wu JB,Ding X,Zhao WH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometrical, conformational, and electronic properties of a series of D-π-A metal-free dyes designed for use as sensitizers in DSSCs were studied using DFT and TD-DFT methods. A substituted triphenylamine moiety was used as the donor group and 2-cyanoacrylic acid as the acceptor group in these dyes. They also cont...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hasanein AA,Elmarassi YR,Kassem EN

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP)-1 inhibitor represents promising therapy against cancers with a good balance between efficacy and safety. Owing to the conserved structure between PARP-1 and PARP-2, most of the clinical and experimental drugs show equivalent inhibition against both targets. Most recently,...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cao R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol and water are the solvents most commonly used to extract flavonoids from propolis. Do hydrogen-bonding interactions exist between flavonoids and ethanol/water? In this work, this question was addressed by using density functional theory (DFT) to provide information on the hydrogen-bonding interactions between ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zheng YZ,Zhou Y,Liang Q,Chen DF,Guo R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermally allowed electrocyclic reaction syn-cyclophanediene (CPD) to dihydropyrene (DHP) was compared with the disallowed thermal electrocyclic reaction in anti CPD through density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP/6-31 + G(d) level. Moreover, the results were also compared with the electrocycliza...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Saima B,Khan A,Nisa RU,Mahmood T,Ayub K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cold shock protein from the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima (Tm-Csp) exhibits significantly higher thermostability than its homologue from the thermophile Bacillus caldolyticus (Bc-Csp). Experimental studies have shown that the electrostatic interactions unique to Tm-Csp are responsible for improving its ther...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Su JG,Han XM,Zhao SX,Hou YX,Li XY,Qi LS,Wang JH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density functional theory (DFT) was used to study the stereochemistry, thermodynamic stability, and spectra of recently synthesized bis-Betti base derivatives of 2,3-dihydroxynaphthalene obtained through multicomponent reactions of 2,3-dihydroxynaphthalene with aminoisoxazole and benzaldehyde derivatives. The stereoch...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zamani M,Shafiee M,Keshavarz MH

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently inulinase has regained interest due to its usage in the production of fructooligosaccharides, biofuels, and in pharmaceutical industries. Inulinases properties are experimentally reported by nomerous studies but their characteristics are just partially explained by only a few computational investigations. In ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Singh PK,Joseph J,Goyal S,Grover A,Shukla P

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ternary complexes ML∙∙∙PyZX2∙∙∙NH3 (ML = CuCl, CuCN, AgCN, and AuCN; Z = P, As, and Sb; X = H and F) have been investigated with quantum chemical calculations. The results showed that the existence of coordination interaction has a prominent enhancing effect on the strength of pnicogen bonding. Even in ML∙∙∙PySbH2...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Tang Q,Li Q

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural features, spectroscopic properties, and interaction energies of the linear proton-bound complexes of OCH(+) and its sulfur analog SCH(+) with N2 were investigated using the high-level ab initio methods MP2 and CCSD(T) as well as density functional theory with the aug-cc-pVXZ (X = D, T) basis sets. The r...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Begum S,Subramanian R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HP1γ, a non-histone chromatin protein, has elicited significant attention because of its role in gene silencing, elongation, splicing, DNA repair, cell growth, differentiation, and many other cancer-associated processes, including therapy resistance. These characteristics make it an ideal target for developing small d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Velez G,Lin M,Christensen T,Faubion WA,Lomberk G,Urrutia R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature and strength of intermolecular Se⋯N interaction between selenium-containing compounds HSeX (X = CH3, NH2, CF3, OCH3, CN, OH, NO2, Cl, F), and NH3 have been investigated at the MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level. The Se⋯N interaction is found to be dependent on the substituent groups, which greatly affect the positive el...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhou F,Liu R,Tang J,Li P,Cui Y,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of folic acid (FA)-tryptophan interactions to FA-protein association was investigated in the context of using FA as a drug carrier in protein delivery systems. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) and indolicidin were used as model proteins in the study. The FA-BSA complex was characterized by using the Bradfor...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gupta R,Kalita P,Patil O,Mohanty S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a wide variety of ion channel types with various types of blockers, making research in this field very complicated. To reduce this complexity, it is essential to study ion channels and their blockers independently. Scorpion toxins, a major class of blockers, are charged short peptides with high affinities for...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Nikouee A,Khabiri M,Cwiklik L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) calculations, theoretical studies of structural parameters, electronic properties, infrared vibration modes, and charge density topologies on the C2H4O∙∙∙HX and C2H5N∙∙∙HX (X = F or O-F) heterocylic hydrogen complexes are presented. The H-bond distances and high energies point out stron...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Oliveira BG

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamic integration (TI) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for the binding of a pair of a reference ("ref") ligand and an analogous ("analog") ligand to either tagged (with six extra residues at the N-terminus) or untagged p38 kinase proteins were carried out in order to probe how the binding affinity is influ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sun YC,Hsu WC,Hsu CJ,Chang CM,Cheng KH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six nitramines (N1-6) were designed with all possible arrangements of N-NO2 groups on a cyclic skeleton and structural optimization was performed using the density functional theory (DFT). We observed that all nitramines have high positive heats of formation proportionate to the number of N-NO2 groups in their molecul...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Devi A,Deswal S,Dharavath S,Ghule VD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeolites are a group of microporous aluminosilicate frameworks with numerous applications in, for example, catalysis and ion-exchange and sorption processes. One of the most important tools for analyzing the properties of zeolite structures is vibrational spectroscopy. However, the complexity of these structures often...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mikuła A,Król M,Koleżyński A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capture of N3-chains and N5-rings on the outer surface of C60 was studied using density functional calculations. For the neutral N5-ring, it was found that a N5-ring trapped by a C60 cage becomes more stable than an isolated N5-ring radical, and a C60-N5 compound with a C-N bond at an exohedral position of C60 is ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liang Y,Gao X,Li N,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein folding is a fundamental topic in molecular biology. Conventional experimental techniques for protein structure identification or protein folding recognition require strict laboratory requirements and heavy operating burdens, which have largely limited their applications. Alternatively, computer-aided techniqu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li B,Lin M,Liu Q,Li Y,Zhou C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Present theoretical study involves the delta shape complexes of beryllium, magnesium, and calcium where the metal atom interacts perpendicularly with disubstituted acetylene. Most of the complexes are found to be fairly stable. The dependence of second-hyperpolarizability on the basis set with increasing polarization ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hatua K,Nandi PK

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Performance of 18 DFT functionals (B1B95, B3LYP, B3PW91, B97D, BHandHLYP, BMK, CAM-B3LYP, HSEh1PBE, M06-L, mPW1PW91, O3LYP, OLYP, OPBE, PBE1PBE, tHCTHhyb, TPSSh, wB97xD, VSXC) in combinations with six basis sets (cc-pVDZ, aug-cc-pVDZ, cc-pVTZ, aug-cc-pVTZ, IGLO-II, and IGLO-III) and three methods for calculating magne...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Toomsalu E,Burk P

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New ionic liquids (ILs) involving increasing numbers of organic and inorganic ions are continuously being reported. We recently developed a new force field; in the present work, we applied that force field to investigate the structural properties of a few novel imidazolium-based ILs in aqueous mixtures via molecular d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chaban VV,Fileti EE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures and intramolecular interactions of complexes (FeCNT-CO, FeCNT-NO, NiCNT-CO, and NiCNT-NO) formed by the Fe or Ni doped single-wall carbon nanotube (FeCNT or NiCNT) and gas CO or NO were studied using density functional theory, quantum theory of atom in molecule (QTAIM), and natural bond orbital methods....

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang X,Gong X

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms for the activation of water, ammonia, and other small molecules by the PCcarbeneP nickel pincer complex were studied computationally with the aid of density functional theory. The calculation results indicate that the strongly donating, nucleophilic carbene center can engage in a variety of heterolytic spli...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liu CC,Liu QL,Wu ZY,Chen YC,Xie HJ,Lei QF,Fang WJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The character of the bridged hydrogen atom (Hb) of B2H6 has become a hot issue in recent years. In this work, the complexes B2H6 · · · NH3, B2H2X4 · · · nNH3 (n = 1, 2) and 2HF · · · B2H2X4 · · · 2NH3 (X = Cl, Br, I) were constructed and studied based on the M06-2X calculations to investigate how to enhance the Hb · ·...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gao L,Zhang X,Meng L,Zeng Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of different monoterpenes and 2-cyclohexen-1-one on the antibacterial activity of nitrofurantoin against resistant Enterobacter cloacae, were compared and the minimal structural component of monoterpene required for the highest level of resistance-modulating activity was determined. Subinhibitory concentra...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shahverdi AR,Mirzaie S,Rafii F,Kakavand M,Foroumadi A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronan lyase from Streptococcus pneumoniae can degrade hyaluronic acid, which is one of the major components in the extracellular matrix. Hyaluronan can regulate water balance, osmotic pressure, and act as an ion exchange resin. Followed by our recent work on the catalytic reaction mechanism and substrate binding ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li F,Xu D

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density functional theory (DFT) was used to investigate nickel-catalyzed ring-opening hydroacylation of methylenecyclopropanes and benzaldehydes. The results indicated that the Ni-P(n-Bu)3 complex exhibited much more excellent catalysis than the other two complexes (Ni-PMe3 and Ni-P(t-Bu)3). The hydrogen migration was...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang F,Zhu S,Meng Q,Yin H

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00