abstract：:An electronic study of nimesulide was performed by using density functional theory calculations. The activities of the six different derivatives were related with electron donating or accepting capacities. All compounds which had nitro moiety had low electron donating and high electron accepting capacities. However, t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Borges RS,Oliveira JP,Matos RF,Chaves Neto AM,Carneiro AS,Monteiro MC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the structure and dynamics of star-shaped polymers by means of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and analysis of structural transitions of semi-flexible macromolecules confined in nano-channels. The conformation of star arms in narrow channels is given by the channel width, arm flexibility and n...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Račko D,Cifra P

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ab initio calculations were performed to study the quantum chemistry reactions mechanisms among Hg(0), elemental halogen and O3. The geometry of reactions, transition states (TS), intermediates (M) and products were optimized using the MP2 method at the SDD basis function level for Hg, and using 6-311++G (3df, 3pd) fo...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gao Z,Lv S,Yang W,Yang P,Ji S,Meng X

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper used numerical and experimental methods to investigate the mechanical properties of amorphous NiAl alloys during the nanoindentation process. A simulation was performed using the many-body tight-binding potential method. Temperature, plastic deformation, elastic recovery, and hardness were evaluated. The ex...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang CH,Fang TH,Cheng PC,Chiang CC,Chao KC

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fruit softening is associated to cell wall modifications produced by a set of hydrolytic enzymes and proteins. Expansins are proteins with no catalytic activity, which have been associated with several processes during plant growth and development. A role for expansins has been proposed during softening of fruits, and...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gaete-Eastman C,Morales-Quintana L,Herrera R,Moya-León MA

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:The nitrogen doping and phenyl substitution effects on the geometries, molecular stacking character, electronic, and charge transport properties of tetrabenzoheptacene (TTBH) have been investigated by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculation and incoherent charge hopping model. Our results indicate that th...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Guan L,Wang W,Shao R,Liu F,Yin S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of an insertion/duplication mutant 'L20' of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme demonstrated a solvent induced α→β transition in a loosely held duplicate helical region, while α-helical conformation in the parent region was relatively stabilized by its tertiary interactions with the...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kaur H,Sasidhar YU

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical adiabatic electron affinities are often considered inaccurate because they are referenced to only a single value. Ground state electron affinities for all the main group elements and homonuclear diatomics were identified recently using the normalized binding energy of the hydrogen atom: [0.75420375(3)/2 = ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen ES,Keith H,Lim T,Pham D,Rosenthal R,Herder C,Pai S,Flores RA,Chen EC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of stable and inexpensive artificial enzymes with potent catalytic activity is a growing field in peptide science. The first step in this design process is to understand the key factors that can affect the conformational preference of an enzyme and correlate them with its catalytic activity. In this work, m...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Honarparvar B,Skelton AA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how temperature affects the electronic transitions of BFO is important for design of BiFeO3 (BFO)-based temperature-sensitive device. Hitherto, however, there have been only very limited reports of the quantitative simulation. Here, we used density functional theory (DFT) and two-dimensional correlation ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bian L,Xu JB,Song MX,Dong FQ,Dong HL,Shi FN,Zhang XY,Duan T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DFT calculations were carried out on the homo- and hetero-bimetallic model wires [(η(5)-C5H5)(dpe)Fe-C≡C-C6H4-C≡C-Fe(dpe)(η(5)-C5H5)] (1'), [(η(7)-C7H7)(dpe)Mo-C≡C-C6H4-C≡C-Mo(dpe)(η(7)-C7H7)] (2'), and [(η(5)-C5H5)(dpe)Fe-C≡C-C6H4-C≡C-Mo(dpe)(η(7)-C7H7)] (3') used to tentatively mimic [(η(5)-C5Me5)(dppe)Fe-C≡C-C6H4-C...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ladjarafi A,Costuas K,Meghezzi H,Halet JF

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-known that properties of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) in the pure and solution states depend largely on the hydrogen bonding networks formed. In the context of molecular simulation, such networks are handled through the Coulombic interactions. Therefore, a good set of partial atom charges (PACs) for simulation...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Noorjahan A,Choi P

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural characteristics involving thermal stabilities of liquid nitromethane (NM)—one of the simplest energetic materials—confined within a graphene (GRA) bilayer were investigated by means of all-atom molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations. The results show that ordered and l...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liu Y,Yu T,Lai W,Kang Y,Ge Z

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a critical discussion related to the recent definition of the intrinsic reactivity index, IRI, (Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 339-342; Tetrahedron 2013, 69, 4247-4258) formulated to describe both, electrophilicity (charge acceptance) and nucleophilicity (charge donation) reactivities. We here stress that such...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chamorro E,Melin J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding behavior of coinage metal anions with some electron-deficient arenes has been investigated by MP2 calculations, and the character of interactions in these complexes has been examined by NBO analysis. The results indicate that coinage metal anions can interact with electron-deficient arenes to form anion-π,...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen Y,Wang F

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, both lithium (Li) salts and Li electrides formed by one Li atom interacting with ligand complexes, have been widely investigated. An interesting question emerges: is the configuration of one Li atom interacting with ligand complexes a Li salt or electride? In the present work, four configurations n-Li-PNA (n...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gao Y,Wu HQ,Sun SL,Xu HL,Su ZM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Nitro-3-trinitromethyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole (NTMT, A) and its substituted derivatives A-CH3, A-OCH3, A-NH2, A-OH, A-NO2, and A-ONO2 were studied using density functional theory (DFT). For all of the molecules except for A-ONO2, the C-NO2 bond in the trinitromethyl group was found to be the weakest, and no transition st...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang X,Gong X

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent ab initio investigations of some complexes formed between carbon dioxide and its analogues carbonyl sulfide, carbonyl selenide, carbon disulfide, and thiocarbonyl selenide and the common bases ammonia, water, phosphine, and hydrogen sulfide have revealed significant differences between the properties of those c...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ramasami P,Ford TA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A practical mixed basis set was developed to facilitate accurate calculations of potential energy surfaces for π-stacking interactions. Correlation consistent basis sets (cc-PVXZ) were augmented by p-type Gaussian functions placed above and below the planes of C6 moieties. Møller-Plesset (MP2, SCS-MP2) and coupled clu...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yurtsever E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intriguing decompositions of nitro-containing explosives have been attracting interest. While theoretical investigations have long been concentrated mainly on unimolecular decompositions, bimolecular reactions have received little theoretical attention. In this paper, we investigate theoretically the bimolecular r...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang JD,Kang LH,Cheng XL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functionalization of pristine and Stone-Wales defected BC3 nanosheets with a pyrene molecule was investigated using density functional theory. Frontier molecular analysis shows that the main interaction is π-π stacking, releasing energies in the range of 143.6 to 169.1 kJ mol(-1). We predicted that after the funct...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Peyghan AA,Noei M,Bagheri Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a theoretical investigation of the electric properties of two kinds of one-dimensional lithium bonded chains: (NC-Li)n and (NC-CC-Li)n (n = 1-8). The resulting (NC-Li)n and (NC-CC-Li)n were found to exhibit enhanced first hyperpolarizabilities (β 0) with increasing n, and a slight change in the absorption m...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ma F,Bai D,Xu H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the conformational properties of a potent inhibitor of neuropilin-1, a protein involved in cancer processes and macular degeneration. This inhibitor consists of four aromatic/conjugated fragments: a benzimidazole, a methylbenzene, a carboxythiourea, and a benzene-linker dioxane, and these fragments are ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Goldwaser E,de Courcy B,Demange L,Garbay C,Raynaud F,Hadj-Slimane R,Piquemal JP,Gresh N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Z-DNA-binding domain of human double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase I (hZαADAR1) can specifically recognize the left-handed Z-DNA which preferentially occurs at alternating purine-pyrimidine repeats, especially the CG-repeats. The interactions of hZαADAR1 and Z-DNAs in different sequence contexts can affect many...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang Q,Li L,Wang X,Liu H,Yao X

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, coupled cluster methods CC2, CCSD, CCSDR(3) and EOM-CCSD(T) have been benchmarked against CC3 for the transition energies of nucleobases. Beside presenting vertical excitation energies for about 30 singlet transitions of four molecules, the results are analyzed statistically and problematic cases have b...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kánnár D,Szalay PG

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes F2XO∙∙∙HCN (X = C and Si) have been studied by quantum chemical calculations at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level to investigate the competition between π-hole interaction and hydrogen bond. F2XO has a dual role of a Lewis acid and base with the π-hole on the X atom and the O atom to participate in the π-hole intera...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Guo X,Cao L,Li Q,Li W,Cheng J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact sites between amino acids characterize important structural features of a protein. We investigated characteristics of contact sites in a representative set of proteins and their relations between protein class or topology. For this purpose, we used a non-redundant set of 5872 protein domains, identically categ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wozniak PP,Kotulska M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of E-M bonds in CpE-MCp (E = B, Al, Ga; M = Li, Na, K; Cp = η (5)-C5H5) donor-acceptor sandwiches was studied using the atoms in molecules (AIM) theory, electron localization function (ELF), energy decomposition analysis (EDA), and natural bond orbital analysis (NBO) methods. Both topological and orbital an...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Huo S,Meng D,Zhang X,Meng L,Li X

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum chemical calculations using density functional theory BP86/def2-TZVPP and ab initio methods at CCSD(T)/def2-TZVPP have been carried for the telluroketones H2A=Te (A = C, Si, Ge). DFT calculations have also been carried out for the ketones H2C=E (E = O, S, Se, Te) and for the complexes NHC → [H2A=Te] → B(C6F5)3...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jaufeerally NB,Ramasami P,Jerabek P,Frenking G

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydration free energies, structures, and dynamics of open- and closed-shell trivalent lanthanide and actinide metal cations are studied using molecular dynamics simulations (MD) based on a polarizable force field. Parameters for the metal cations are derived from an ab initio bottom-up strategy. MD simulations of ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Marjolin A,Gourlaouen C,Clavaguéra C,Ren PY,Piquemal JP,Dognon JP

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of crystal modifier 2,2',4,4',6,6'-hexanitrostillbene(HNS) on the reinforcement of crystalline 1,3,5-trinitrotoluene (TNT) was investigated by molecular simulation. The intermolecular interactions between HNS and TNT were revealed by quantum chemistry calculations in detail, strong attractive forces were fo...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Qian W,Shu Y,Li H,Ma Q

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear magnetic shieldings of Si, Ge, and Sn in MH(4-n) Y(n) (M = Si, Ge, Sn; Y = F, Cl, Br, I and n = 1-4) molecular systems are highly influenced by the substitution of one or more hydrogens by heavy-halogen atoms. We applied the linear response elimination of small components (LRESC) formalism to calculate tho...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Maldonado AF,Aucar GA,Melo JI

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, hybrid functional and G4 methods were employed in the rational design of carbonitrile-carboxaldehyde receptor models for cation recognition. Electron-sharing and ionic interactions between the models and the cations were analyzed utilizing the concepts of overlap population, atomic valence, electrostatic...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Rosli AN,Abu Bakar MA,Lee VS,Zain SM,Ahmad MR,Abdul Manan NS,Alias Y,Woi PM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A density functional theory investigation of adsorption of monomer, dimer and trimer forms of pyrrole on the outer surface of zigzag (7,0) single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) has been reported. Geometries of the complexes were optimized using the M06-2X functional and the 6-31G(d,p) basis set. Moreover, 6-311G(d,p),...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shukla MK,Boddu V,Hill F

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performances of quantum chemistry methods (i.e., DFT and ab initio) in calculating the structural and vibrational properties of phosphates and phosphorylated compounds have been evaluated. Diethyl-phosphate, phosphonic acid, dihydrogen phosphate anion, phosphoric acid dimer and protonated glycylphosphotyrosine dip...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sharma A,Ohanessian G,Clavaguéra C

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chain tacticity of a polymer is a key influence on its structure and dynamics, which ultimately determine its properties. While they have great potential to elucidate the influence of chain tacticity, all-atom molecular simulations are often restricted to short chains and small systems. In this work, two typical s...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wu C

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A first-principles calculation was carried out to investigate the stability and electronic properties of ultra-thin Cx(BN)y heteronanotubes which were composed by joining pure CNT and BNNT segments with different composition and configurations. We found that the stability of Cx(BN)y heteronanotubes is increased with t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang Y,Huang G,Zhang J,Shao Q

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The UV absorption spectra of ten N,N'-bisarylmalonamides have been recorded in the range 200-400 nm in a set of selected solvents. The solute-solvent interactions have been analyzed on the basis of the linear solvation energy relationship (LSER) concept proposed by Kamlet and Taft. The effects of substituents on the a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Arsovski VM,Božić BĐ,Mirković JM,Vitnik VD,Vitnik ZJ,Fabian WM,Petrović SD,Mijin DZ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although molecularly targeted therapy with imatinib has improved treatments of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), clinical resistance gradually develops in patients with accelerated or blast phase CML. The inability of imatinib to cure CML suggests that inactivation of BCR-ABL kinase activity alone is not sufficient to c...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shao S,Yu R,Yu Y,Li Y

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00