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Non-zero Lennard-Jones parameters for the Toukan-Rahman water model: more accurate calculations of the solvation free energy of organic substances.

Alexei Nikitin
Published in: Journal of computer-aided molecular design (2019)
Application of a small radius of the hydrogen atom in molecular-mechanical models of hydrogen bonding improves the estimate of the solvation free energy of organic substances. At the same time, the density and evaporation heat of the bulk water vary slightly and are close to experimental values. Blind testing drug candidates in the SAMPL6 simulation competition showed that using the same Lennard-Jones hydrogen parameters for the hydroxyl, hydroxycarbonyl, amino, and amide groups is enough to predict log P octanol-water with MAE 0.67 and RMSD 0.75.
Keyphrases
  • molecular dynamics
  • molecular dynamics simulations
  • density functional theory
  • mass spectrometry
  • single molecule
  • visible light