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Polarizable Multipolar Molecular Dynamics Using Distributed Point Charges.

  • Devereux M Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
  • Pezzella M Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
  • Raghunathan S Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
  • Meuwly M Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
  • 2020-11-27
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  • Journal of chemical theory and computation. - 2020
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Computer Science Applications
English Distributed point charge models (DCM) and their minimal variants (MDCM) have been integrated with tools widely used for condensed-phase simulations, including a virial-based barostat and a slow-growth algorithm for thermodynamic integration. Minimal DCM is further developed in a systematic fashion to reduce fitting errors in the electrostatic interaction energy, and a new fragment-based approach offers considerable speedup of the MDCM fitting process for larger molecules with increased numbers of off-centered charged sites. Finally, polarizable (M)DCM is also introduced in the present work. The developments are used in condensed-phase simulations of popular force fields with commonly applied simulation conditions. (M)DCM equivalents for a range of widely used water force fields and for fluorobenzene (PhF) are developed and applied along with the original models to evaluate the impact of reformulating the electrostatic term. Comparisons of the molecular electrostatic potential (MEP), electrostatic interaction energies, and bulk properties from molecular dynamics simulations for a range of models from simple TIPnP (n = 3-5) to the polarizable, multipolar iAMOEBA models for water and an existing quadrupolar model for PhF confirm that DCMs retain the accuracy of the original models, providing a homogeneous, efficient, and generic point charge alternative to a multipolar electrostatic model for force field development and multilevel simulations.
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