abstract：:The efficiency and high specificity of tobacco etch virus protease (TEVp) has made it widely used for cleavage of recombinant fusion proteins. However, TEVp suffers from a few intrinsic defects such as self-cleavage, poorly expressed in E. coli and less soluble. So some mutants were designed to improve it, such as S21...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang Y,Zhu GF,Ren SY,Han YG,Luo Y,Du LF

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of the thermal rearrangement of substituted N-acyl-2,2-dimethylaziridines 1 has been studied using quantum chemistry methods. Geometries of reactants, transition states and products have been optimized at the B3LYP/6-311++G(2d,2p) level. Relative energies for various stationary points have been determine...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Arfaoui Y,Efrit ML,Besbes N

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and electronic properties of the complexes formed by the interaction of imidazole and pyrazole with different BeXH(BeX2) (X = H, Me, F, Cl) derivatives have been investigated via B3LYP/6-311+G(3df,2p)//B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) calculations. The formation of these azole:BeXH(BeX2) complexes is accompanied by a d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Mó O,Yáñez M,Alkorta I,Elguero J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective dissolution of calcium oxalate, the main component of kidney stones, is important in the treatment of nephrolithisis. Polyphenol glycosides constitute compounds supporting dissolution and inhibition of formation of stones. These moieties possess oxygen atoms which can interact with calcium cations. Densi...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Toczek D,Kubas K,Turek M,Roszak S,Gancarz R

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4'-substituted neutral/protonated furfurylidenanilines and trans-styrylfurans are able to exist in two different conformations related to the rotation around the furan ring-bridge double bond. In this work, the equilibrium geometry and the corresponding rotational barrier of the benzene ring for each furan derivative ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Santos-Carballal D,Suardíaz R,Crespo-Otero R,González L,Pérez CS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical investigation is completed on the mechanism of electrical breakdown strength increment of polyethylene. It is shown that it is one of the most important factors for increasing electrical breakdown strength of polyethylene through keto-enol isomerization of acetophenone and its analogues at the ground sta...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang H,Shang Y,Zhao H,Han B,Li Z

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of a two-dimensional film formed by adsorbed polymer chains was studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The polymer chains were represented by linear sequences of lattice beads and positions of these beads were restricted to vertices of a two-dimensional square lattice. Two different Monte Carlo met...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Pawłowska M,Sikorski A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism and kinetics of 2,2,3,3,3-pentafluoropropanol (CF₃CF₂CH₂OH) reaction with Chlorine atom (Cl) is investigated in this work. Two hydrogen abstraction channels of the title reaction are identified. The geometries of all the stationary points in the potential energy surface are obtained at the BHandHLYP/6-31...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yu AY,Zhang HX

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Properties of a new class of hypothetical high-surface-area porous carbons (open carbon frameworks) have been discussed. The limits of hydrogen adsorption in these carbon porous structures have been analyzed in terms of competition between increasing surface accessible for adsorption and the lowering energy of adsorpt...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Kuchta B,Firlej L,Mohammadhosseini A,Beckner M,Romanos J,Pfeifer P

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding geometry of fluorouracil/cucurbit[n]urils (CB[n]s) complexes with n = 5-8 is investigated using the first-principles van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) method, involving full geometry optimization. Such host-guest complexes are typically calculated using conventional DFT method, which significantly ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Sabet M,Ganji MD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The halogen bonding interactions between C6F5I and a series of transition metal monohalides trans-[M(X)(2-C5NF4)-(PR3)2] (M = Ni, Pd, Pt; X = F, Cl, Br; R = Me, Cy) have been studied with quantum chemical calculations. Optimized geometries of the halogen bonding complexes indicate that angles C1-I···X are basically li...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Cheng N,Liu Y,Zhang C,Liu C

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature dependences of the spontaneous polarization and the dielectric constant are calculated near the paraelectric-ferroelectric (cubic-tetragonal) transition in BaTiO3 using our mean field model. By expanding the free energy in terms of the spontaneous polarization (order parameter), expressions for the tempera...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Yurtseven H,Kiraci A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of the highly reactive ylide in thiamin diphosphate catalysis is analyzed in terms of the nucleophilicity of key atoms, by means of density functional calculations at X3LYP/6-31++G(d,p) level of theory. The Fukui functions of all tautomeric/ionization forms are calculated in order to assess their reacti...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jaña GA,Delgado EJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, great attention has been focused on using epoxy polymers in different fields such as aerospace, automotive, biotechnology, and electronics, owing to their superior properties. In this study, the classical molecular dynamics (MD) was used to simulate the cross linking of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A (DGEBA...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Shokuhfar A,Arab B

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of oligo(thienylenevinylene) derivatives with 1,4-dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole as core has been investigated at the PBE0/6-31G(d) and the TD-PBE0/6-31+G(d,p) levels to design materials with high performances such as broad absorption spectra and higher balance transfer property. The results show that position ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Tang S,Tang B,Liang D,Chen G,Jin R

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of the cycloaddition reaction CH3M≡MCH3 (M=C, Si, Ge) with C2H4 has been studied at the CCSD(T)/6-311++G(d,p)//MP2/6-311++G(d,p) level. Vibrational analysis and intrinsic reaction coordinate (IRC), calculated at the same level, have been applied to validate the connection of the stationary points. The br...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Huo S,Li X,Zeng Y,Zheng S,Meng L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-AB binding energies (AB = CO, O2) in a wild-type myoglobin (Mb) and two mutants (H64L, V68N) of Mb have been investigated in detail with both DFT and dispersion-corrected DFT methods, where H64L and V68N represent two different, opposite situations. Several dispersion correction approaches were tested in the ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Liao MS,Huang MJ,Watts JD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and energetic properties of native and oxidized telomeric complexes were defined by means of molecular dynamic (MD) simulations. As a starting point, the experimental conformation of B-DNA d(GpTpTpApGpGpGpTpTpApGpGpG) oligomer bound to human protein telomeric repeat binding factor 1 (TRF1) was used. The...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Czeleń P,Cysewski P

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometric and electronic structures, absorption spectra, transporting properties, chemical reactivity indices and electrostatic potentials of the planar three-coordinate organoboron compounds 1-2 and twisted reference compound Mes(3)B, have been investigated by employing density functional theory (DFT) and concept...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jin JL,Li HB,Lu T,Duan YA,Geng Y,Wu Y,Su ZM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometries, stabilities, and electronic properties of ScBn (n = 1-12) clusters have been systematically investigated by using density functional theory B3LYP method and coupled-cluster theory CCSD(T) method. It is found that the ground state isomers of ScBn have planar or quasi-planar structure when n ≤ 6, which c...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Jia J,Ma L,Wang JF,Wu HS

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical investigation is completed on inhibition mechanism of polyethylene electrical tree aging. Foremost it elucidates that it is one of the important factors for inhibiting initiation and propagation of polyethylene electrical tree through keto-enol tautomerism of acetophenone and its analogues. Geometries of...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang H,Shang Y,Zhao H,Han B,Li Z

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-hybrid density functional theory calculations using M06-2X/6-31+G(d,p) and M06-2X/6-311+G(d,p) levels of theory have been performed to understand the strength of C-H(…)π interactions of two possible types for benzene-acetylene, 1,3,5-trifluorobenzene-acetylene and coronene-acetylene complexes. Our study reveals t...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Dinadayalane TC,Paytakov G,Leszczynski J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to accurately predict the oxidation and reduction potentials of molecules is very useful in various fields and applications. Quantum mechanical calculations can be used to access this information, yet sometimes the usefulness of these calculations can be limited because of the computational requirements fo...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Méndez-Hernández DD,Tarakeshwar P,Gust D,Moore TA,Moore AL,Mujica V

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-established that many covalently-bonded atoms of Groups IV-VII have directionally-specific regions of positive electrostatic potential (σ-holes) through which they can interact with negative sites. In the case of Group VII, this is called "halogen bonding." We have studied two series of molecules: the F3MX ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Bundhun A,Ramasami P,Murray JS,Politzer P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of no-chlorine and oxygen-rich hydrazine derivatives (hydrazine modified with -NO₂ and NO₃(-) groups) was designed and optimized to obtain molecular geometries and electronic structures at density functional theory-B3PW91/6-311++G(3df,3pd) level. Some important properties such as bond dissociation enthalpy, d...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang PC,Zhu ZS,Xu J,Zhao XJ,Lu M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic DFT method has been firstly used to calculate the bulk structure, electronic structure, electrical transferring and thermodynamic properties of crystalline 5-azido-1H-tetrazole (HCN₇) and its four different salts. The anion CN₇(-) was included in all of the salts such as ammonium 5-azidotetrazolate ([NH₄](+)[...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Wang K,Zhang J,Shang J,Zhang T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work uses MD simulation to study effects of five water contents (3 %, 10 %, 20 %, 50 %, 100 % v/v) on the tetrahedral intermediate of chymotrypsin - trifluoromethyl ketone in polar acetonitrile and non-polar hexane media. The water content induced changes in the structure of the intermediate, solvent distribution ...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Tian X,Jiang L,Yuan Y,Wang M,Guo Y,Zeng X,Li M,Pu X

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trinitromethyl-substituted aminotetrazoles with -NH₂, -NO₂, -N₃, and -NHC(NO₂)₃ groups were investigated at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level of density functional theory. Their sublimation enthalpies, thermodynamic properties, and heats of formation were calculated. The thermodynamic properties of these compounds increase wit...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Lin H,Chen PY,Zhu SG,Zhang L,Peng XH,Li K,Li HZ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density functional theory (DFT) was used to investigate cobalt(0)-catalyzed intramolecular hydroacylation of 4-pentenal. The calculated results indicated the involvement of five possible reaction pathways: the formation of cyclopentanone, cyclobutanone, butylenes, cyclobutane, and cyclopropane, respectively. The forme...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Meng Q,Wang F,Li M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminus tail (G144-T149) of the hyperthermophile Sulfolobus tokodaii (Sto-RNase HI) plays an important role in this protein's hyperstabilization and may therefore be a good protein stability tag. Detailed understanding of the structural and dynamic effects of C-terminus tail deletion is required for gaining ins...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chen L,Zhang JL,Zheng QC,Chu WT,Xue Q,Zhang HX,Sun CC

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative theoretical investigation into the change in strength of the trigger-bond upon formation of the Na(+), Mg(2+) and HF complexes involving the nitro group of RNO₂ (R = -CH₃, -NH₂, -OCH₃) or the C = C bond of (E)-O₂N-CH = CH-NO₂ was carried out using the B3LYP and MP2(full) methods with the 6-311++G**, 6-31...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhang L,Ren FD,Cao DL,Wang JL,Gao JF

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We perform density functional theory studies to investigate structural and electronic properties of the (5,5) boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) with surfaces and ends functionalized by thiol (SH) and hydroxyl (OH) groups. The exchange-correlation energies are treated according to the functional of Hamprecht-Cohen-Tozer-...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Chigo Anota E,Cocoletzi GH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we assessed the quantum mechanical level of theory for prediction of linear and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of push-pull organic molecules. The electric dipole moment (μ), mean polarizability ([Symbol: see text]α[Symbol: see text]) and total static first hyperpolarizability (βt) were calculated f...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Paschoal D,Santos HF

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine a short way to reach an exceptional point that corresponds to a coalescence of two resonance energies. The application concerns the photodissociation of the Na2 molecule exposed to a laser field. In this case, the resonances can be correlated with the field-free vibrational states of the diatomic species. T...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Lefebvre R,Atabek O

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational study has been performed for studying the characteristics of the interaction of phenol with ammonium and methylammonium cations. The effect of the presence of water molecules has also been considered by microhydrating the clusters with up to three water molecules. Clusters of phenol with ammonium and m...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Rodríguez-Sanz AA,Carrazana-García J,Cabaleiro-Lago EM,Rodríguez-Otero J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, conformational analysis of lignin models was accomplished by considering four cross-link types (3-5', β-5', α-O-4 and β-O-4) and three monomer units [guaiacyl (G), p-hydroxyphenyl (H) and syringyl (S)]. Analysis involving the 3-5' and β-5' dimers was conducted following the standard procedure, i.e...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Castilho-Almeida EW,De Almeida WB,Dos Santos HF

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, a scheme to generate exact wave functions and eigenvalues for the spherically symmetric three-dimensional position-dependent effective mass Schrödinger equation is presented. The methodology is implemented by means of separation of variables and point canonical transformations that allow to recognize a r...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Ovando G,Morales J,López-Bonilla JL

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and chemical adsorption of CO2 on ZnO surfaces were studied by means of two different implementations of periodic density functional theory. Adsorption energies were computed and compared to values in the literature. In particular, it was found that the calculated equilibrium structure and internuclear distan...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Farias SA,Longo E,Gargano R,Martins JB

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some recent papers clearly indicate that the cytoplasmic domain of KcsA plays a role in pH sensing. We have performed, for the first time, a targeted molecular dynamics (TMD) simulation of the opening of full-length KcsA at pH 4 and pH 7, with a special interest for the cytoplasmic domain. Association energy calculati...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Li Y,Barbault F,Delamar M,Zhang R,Hu R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical study of the chemisorption and dissociation pathways of water on the Al₁₃ cluster was performed using the hybrid density functional B3LYP method with the 6-311+G(d, p) basis set. The activation energies, reaction enthalpies, and Gibbs free energy of activation for the reaction were determined. Calculatio...

journal_title：Journal of molecular modeling

authors： Zhao JY,Zhao FQ,Gao HX,Ju XH

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00