abstract：:In this work we present the results of a study of the X-ray structure of 2-[(2,4-dimethoxyphenyl)amino]-1,3-thiazolidin-4-one. Using the FTIR spectra in solid state and results of ab initio calculations we explain the issue of the tautomerism of this molecule. The compound is shown to exist as the 2-amino tautomer rat...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Nowaczyk A,Kowiel M,Gzella A,Fijałkowski L,Horishny V,Lesyk R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometrical structure and electronic properties of bis(10-hydroxybenzo[h]quinolinato)beryllium (Bebq2) molecule and its dimer both in the neutral and in the positively and negatively charged states were studied using quantum-chemical calculations. It is found that the excess charge in the charged systems is locali...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Safonov AA,Bagaturyants AA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An azo bridge (-N=N-) can not only desensitize explosives but also dramatically increase their heats of formation and explosive properties. Amino and nitro are two important high energy density functional groups. Here, we present calculations on 1-nitro-1-triazene (NH2-N=N-NO2). Thermal stability and detonation parame...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chi W,Yan T,Li B

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NBO-NJC decomposition of vicinal (3)J HH spin-spin coupling constants into Lewis, delocalization, and repolarization contributions are presented. A deep study allows to assign the main contributions to specific orbitals or electron delocalizations between two orbitals. (3)J HH torsional dependence and the substituent ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： García de la Vega JM,San Fabián J

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The triplet-triplet absorption spectra of three newly synthesized N-substituted 4,5,6,7-tetrachlorophthalimides (TCP) were measured experimentally and calculated with density functional theory. The heavy atom effect increases the intersystem crossing rate, and the transient triplet absorbance could be measured. Fluore...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kelterer AM,Mansha A,Iftikhar FJ,Zhang Y,Wang W,Xu JH,Grampp G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical study of the sulfur cumulenes SCnS (n = 3-8), CnS ( n = 1-8) and of their protonated forms (SCnS)H(+) and (CnS)H(+) that might exist in the interstellar environment, has been carried out by means of the standard B3LYP/6-311G** method. The geometries and relative energies of singlet and triplet states acc...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Benmensour MA,Djennane-Bousmaha S,Boucekkine A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal rotation in ammonia borane (AB) was studied on the basis of natural orbitals for chemical valence (NOCV) and eigenvectors for Pauli repulsion (NOPR). We found that the total hyperconjugation stabilization (ca. 5 kcal mol(-1)), based on the charge transfer from the occupied σ (B-H) orbitals into the empty ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Parafiniuk M,Mitoraj MP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cellular disorders have been related to the overexpression of the cysteine protease cathepsin B (CatB), such as rheumatic arthritis, muscular dystrophy, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, and tumor metastasis. Therefore, inhibiting CatB may be a way to control unregulated cellular functions and prevent tissue ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Vega-Teijido MA,El Chamy Maluf S,Bonturi CR,Sambrano JR,Ventura ON

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CO and O2 adsorption as well as CO oxidation on cationic, neutral, and anionic AuM dimers (M = Pd, Ag) are studied by density functional calculations. Our results show that CO and O2 are adsorbed more stably on AuPd dimers than on AuAg dimers with corresponding charge state. O2 is favorable to be adsorbed on Pd at...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen X,Lu RF,Kan EJ,Liu YZ,Xiao CY,Deng KM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen (O2) catalyzed by small neutral iron oxide clusters (FeO(1-3)) was investigated at the density functional level of theory using the Becke-Perdew-Wang functional (BPW91). Three reaction pathways along with singlet, triplet and quintet states were calculated for ascertaining the presence ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang HJ,Wang YC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested different approaches to including the effect of binding-site water molecules for ligand-binding affinities within the MM/GBSA approach (molecular mechanics combined with generalised Born and surface-area solvation). As a test case, we studied the binding of nine phenol analogues to ferritin. The effect of wa...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mikulskis P,Genheden S,Ryde U

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adsorption of the molecules CO, CO2, and H2 on several ceria and zinc oxide surfaces was studied by means of periodical DFT calculations and compared with infrared frequency data. The stable CeO2(111), CeO2(331), and ZnO(0001) perfect faces were the first substrates considered. Afterwards, the same surfaces with o...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Reimers WG,Baltanás MA,Branda MM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinase-8 (MMP-8) is the key mediator in initiating type I collagen degradation and is associated with rheumatoid arthritis. In the present study, a pharmacophore hypothesis was developed based on selective non zinc binding inhibitors of MMP-8. The pharmacophore hypothesis was refined manually and val...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kalva S,Vinod D,Saleena LM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel mechanism for switching a molecular junction based on a proton transfer reaction triggered by an external electrostatic field is proposed. As a specific example to demonstrate the feasibility of the mechanism, the tautomers [2,5-(4-hydroxypyridine)] and {2,5-[4(1H)-pyridone]} are considered. Employing a combin...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Hofmeister C,Härtle R,Rubio-Pons O,Coto PB,Sobolewski AL,Thoss M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification of pharmacologic activity of a chemical compound is an essential step in any drug discovery process. We develop two new atom-centered fragment descriptors (vertex indices)--one based solely on topological considerations without discriminating atom or bond types, and another based on topological and elec...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kandel DD,Raychaudhury C,Pal D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the increasing complexity of simulated molecular systems, and the fact that simulation times have now reached milliseconds to seconds, immense amounts of data (in the gigabyte to terabyte range) are produced in current molecular dynamics simulations. Manual analysis of these data is a very time-consuming task, a...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Victor Paul Raj FR,Exner TE

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between chemosensors, donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) dipolar organoboron derivatives, and different (CN⁻, F⁻, Cl⁻, and Br⁻) anions have been theoretically investigated using DFT approaches. Theoretical investigations have been performed to explore the optical, electronic, charge transport, and stability pro...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jin R,Tang S,Luo D

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins in the gas phase present an extreme (and unrealistic) challenge for self-consistent-field iteration schemes because their ionized groups are very strong electron donors or acceptors, depending on their formal charge. This means that gas-phase proteins have a very small band gap but that their frontier orbital...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wick CR,Hennemann M,Stewart JJ,Clark T

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a theoretical study of the adsorption of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxoammonium cation (TEMPO) onto the TiO₂(110) surface rutile, investigating its bonding nature, electron properties and structural stability. Based on the results obtained with the PBE0/def2-SVP method, natural bond orbital (NBO) analy...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Nieto-López I,Hernández-García L,Bonilla-Cruz J,Sanchez M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is an endemic disease caused by infection with one of several different species of protozoan parasite Leishmania. Oligopeptidase B (OPB) is a serine peptidase which plays a vital role in survival of the Leishmania parasite in the host (human) macrophage and help in attaining complete virulence. Inhibitio...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Goyal S,Grover S,Dhanjal JK,Goyal M,Tyagi C,Chacko S,Grover A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulation studies of thermotropic bilayers were performed using a set of glycosides namely n-octyl-β-D-glucopyranoside (β-C8Glc), n-octyl-α-D-glucopyranoside (α-C8Glc), n-octyl-β-D-galactopyranoside (β-C8Gal), and n-octyl-α-D-galactopyranoside (α-C8Gal) to investigate the stereochem...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ahmadi S,Manickam Achari V,Nguan H,Hashim R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly all RNA viruses produce double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) during their replication cycles--an important pathogen-associated molecular pattern recognized by the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway in invertebrates and plants. Nodamura virus (NoV) encodes a suppressor of RNA silencing termed B2, which binds to dsRNA and pr...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Allen WJ,Wiley MR,Myles KM,Adelman ZN,Bevan DR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quasi-classical trajectory calculations were performed to investigate the stereodynamics of the reaction H(²S) + ClO(²Π) → HO(²Π) + Cl(²P) using the ground-state potential energy surface 1¹A'. The alignment and orientation of the product molecules as well as the four polarization-dependent differential cross-sections ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Huang Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are associated with misfolding and aggregation of prion protein (PrP). Cellular prion protein contains a disulfide bond linking Cys residues at positions 179 and 214. It has been proposed that this disulfide bond plays an important role in the conversion between cellular (PrP(C)) and the scrapie form of...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ning L,Guo J,Jin N,Liu H,Yao X

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a study of the structure of (+)-catechin, which belongs to the family of the flavan-3-ols-one of the five most widely distributed phenolic groups. The biological activities and pharmaceutical utility of these compounds are related to antioxidant activity due to their ability to scavenge free radicals. A brea...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bentz EN,Pomilio AB,Lobayan RM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes the interplay between X···N and X···X halogen bonds interactions in NCX···NCX···XCH3 complexes, where X=Cl and Br. To better understand the properties of these systems, the corresponding dyads were also studied. These effects are studied theoretically in terms of geometric and energetic features ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Esrafili MD,Vakili M,Solimannejad M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve understanding of the unimolecular decomposition mechanism of 1,2,4-butanetriol trinitrate (BTTN) in the gas phase, density functional theory calculations were performed to determine various decomposition pathways at the B3LYP/6-311G** level. Two main mechanisms for the unimolecular decomposition of BTTN wer...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhu W,Yan Q,Pang A,Chi X,Du X,Xiao H

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural, elastic and electronic properties of lutatium-pnictides (LuN, LuP, LuAs, LuSb, and LuBi) were analyzed by using full-potential linearized augmented plane wave within generalized gradient approximation in the stable rock-salt structure (B1 phase) with space group Fm-3m and high-pressure CsCl structure (...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gupta DC,Bhat IH

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N)-doped carbons reportedly exhibit good electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of fuel cells. This work provides theoretical insights into the ORR mechanism of N-doped graphene by using density functional theory calculations. All possible reaction pathways were investigated, and t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang J,Wang Z,Zhu Z

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic first-principles calculations have been performed to study the effect of high pressure on the geometric, electronic, and absorption properties of 2,6-diamino-3,5-dinitropyrazine-1-oxide (LLM-105) under hydrostatic pressures of 0-50 GPa. Obvious irregular changes in lattice constants, unit-cell angles, bond le...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wu Q,Yang C,Pan Y,Xiang F,Liu Z,Zhu W,Xiao H

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human dihydrofolate reductase-like 1 (DHFRL1) has been identified as a second human dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) enzyme. Although DHFRL1 have high sequence homology with human DHFR, dihydrofolate (DHF) exhibits a lowered binding affinity to DHFRL1 and the corresponding molecular mechanism is still unknown. To addres...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Gao J,Cui W,Du Y,Ji M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equilibrium structures, spectroscopic and thermodynamic parameters [entropy (S), internal energy (E), heat capacity (C p)] of U₂, U₂O, U₂O₂ and U₂O₄ uranium oxide molecules were investigated systematically using density functional theory (DFT). Our computations indicated that the ground electronic state of U₂ is t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li P,Niu WX,Gao T,Wang F,Jia TT,Meng DQ,Li G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretical three-dimensional structure of a novel δ-endotoxin Cry1Id (81 kDa) belonging to Cry1I class, toxic to many of the lepidopteran pests has been investigated through comparative modeling. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations was carried out to characterize its structural and dynamical features at 10 ns in ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Dehury B,Sahu M,Sahu J,Sarma K,Sen P,Modi MK,Barooah M,Choudhury MD

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins (IGFBPs) control bioactivity and distribution of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) through high-affinity complex of IGFBP and IGF. To get more insight into the binding interaction of IGF system, the site-directed mutagenesis and force-driving desorption methods were employe...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen X,Zhu S,Duan D,Wu T,Wang Q

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferential selectivity of dicyclohexano-18-crown-6 (DCH18C6) for bivalent Sr(+2) ion over tetravalent Th(+4) ion was investigated using generalized gradient approximated (GGA) BP86 and the hybrid B3LYP density functional, employing split valence plus polarization (SV(P)) and triple-zeta valence plus polarization...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Boda A,Joshi JM,Ali SM,Shenoy KT,Ghosh SK

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of a model Lys flanked α-helical peptides K2-X24-K2, (X = A,I,L,L+A,V) with lipid bilayers composed of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) both, in a gel and in a liquid-crystalline state, has been studied by molecular dynamics simulations. It has been shown ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Melicherčík M,Holúbeková A,Hianik T,Urban J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction pathways of several Friedel-Crafts acylations involving phenyl aromatic compounds were studied using density functional theory. The reactions were related to the Friedel-Crafts polycondensation of polyaryletherketones. In particular, the acylation of benzene with benzoyl chloride to form benzophenone and ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Melissen ST,Tognetti V,Dupas G,Jouanneau J,Lê G,Joubert L

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum chemical calculations are performed to study the interplay between halogen⋯nitrogen and halogen⋯carbene interactions in NCX⋯NCX⋯CH2 complexes, where X = F, Cl, Br and I. Molecular geometries and interaction energies of dyads and triads are investigated at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory. It is found that t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Esrafili MD,Mohammdain-Sabet F,Esmailpour P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic investigation of the thermal conductivity of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) doped with nitrogen and containing a vacancy defect was performed using reverse nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (RNEMD). The investigation showed that the thermal conductivity of the ZGNRs was significantly reduced by nitro...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yang H,Tang Y,Gong J,Liu Y,Wang X,Zhao Y,Yang P,Wang S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periplasmic binding proteins are the initial receptors for the transport of various substrates over the inner membrane of gram-negative bacteria. The binding proteins are composed of two domains, and the substrate is entrapped between these domains. For several of the binding proteins it has been established that a cl...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Siuda I,Thøgersen L

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00