A method has been proposed for developing structure-property relationships of nano-structured materials. This method serves as a link between computational chemistry and solid mechanics by substituting discrete molecular structures with equivalent-continuum models. It has been shown that this substitution may be accomplished by equating the molecular potential energy of a nano-structured materi...

A method has been proposed for developing structure-property relationships of nano-structured materials. This method serves as a link between computational chemistry and solid mechanics by substituting discrete molecular structures with equivalent-continuum models. It has been shown that this substitution may be accomplished by equating the molecular potential energy of a nano-structured materi...

This work presents an extention of the polarizable continuum model to explicitly describe the time-dependent response of the solvent to a change in the solute charge distribution. Starting from an initial situation in which solute and solvent are in equilibrium, we are interested in modeling the time-dependent evolution of the solvent response, and consequently of the solute-solvent interaction...

The growing complexity of quantum chemical program packages requires that an appropriate strategy be devised to implement new features. Scalability is of paramount importance, but it has become clear that maintainability and extensibil-ity of the code play an equally important role in managing this growing complexity [1]. The use of a modular programming paradigm has been recognized as benefici...

This paper is a density functional theory (DFT) calculation of intramolecular proton transfer (IPT) in 6-hydroxypicolinic acid (6HPA, 6-hydroxypyridine-2-carboxylic acid) tautomeric forms. The transition state for the enol-to-keto transition is reported in the gas phase and in four different solvents. The planar and non-planar dimer forms of 6HPA keto and enol, respectively, were also studied i...

In this work, we investigated the stability of Molybdate-Phosphonic Acid (MPA) complex by density functionaltheory (DFT) computations in six solvents with the dielectric constant ranging from 1.92 to 10.36. The methodsare used for calculations are B3LYP and B3PW9 I that have been studied in two series of basis sets: D95nand6-31+G (d,p) for hydrogen and oxygen atoms; LANL2DZ for Mo and Phosphoru...

Smooth potential energy surfaces and analytic gradients are obtained for cavitation, dispersion, and repulsion free energies in the polarizable continuum model using the fixed points with variable areas (FIXPVA) tessellation scheme. In addition, it is shown that FIXPVA can reproduce the standard GEPOL results to within 1 kcal/mol.

In this paper we explore cisplatin interactions with sulfur-containing amino acids in a polarizable continuum model. Two cisplatin hydrated complexes were considered as reactants (chloro complex, cis-[Pt(NH3)2Cl(H2O)]+; hydroxo complex, cis-[Pt(NH3)2(OH)(H2O)]+). We considered the following reaction mechanism: first step, substitution of the aqua ligand by amino acid; second step, dissociative ...