Evaluating solvation entropies directly and combining with direct energy calculations is one way of calculating free energies of solvation and is used by Inhomogeneous Fluid Solvation Theory (IFST). The configurational entropy of a fluid is a function of the interatomic correlations and can thus be expressed in terms of correlation functions. The entropies in this work are directly calculated f...

The coupling between solvent fluctuations and the electronic states of solutes is critically important in charge transfer and other chemical reactions. This has piqued enormous interest in solvation dynamicssthe study of how solvent motions relax changes in a solute’s charge distribution. In nearly every computer simulation of solvation dynamics, the system is modeled by an atomic or molecular ...

We review recent developments of fast analytical methods for macroscopic electrostatic calculations in biological applications, including the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) and the generalized Born models for electrostatic solvation energy. The focus is on analytical approaches for hybrid solvation models, especially the image charge method for a spherical cavity, and also the generalized Born theory a...

: in this work, different levels of theory containing hf, b3lyp, and mp2 with different basis sets such as 6-31g, 6-31g*, 6-311g, 6-311+g, 6-31+g*, 6-31+g are used to predict relative acidity constants of some aniline derivatives. three different kinds of radii containing uahf, bondi, and pauling are used to study how cavity forms change acidity constants. in all cases, dpcm model is used to si...

A global optimization method is described for identifying the global minimum energy conformation, as well as lower and upper bounds on the global minimum conformer of solvated peptides. Potential energy contributions are calculated using the ECEPP/3 force eld model. In considering the eeects of hydration, two implicit free energy models are compared. One method is based on the calculation of so...

This paper presents an exact solution for the free energy of linear solvation of a dipolar solute in an arbitrary dielectric material with a microscopic spectrum of polarization fluctuations. The solution is given in terms of wave vector-dependent longitudinal and transverse structure factors of the polarization fluctuations in the pure dielectric. Good agreement with computer simulations of di...