Quantum Chemical Calculations, Molecular Simulations, and a Continuum Approach N. Hansen,*,† R. Krishna,‡ J. M. van Baten,‡ A. T. Bell,*,§ and F. J. Keil† Department of Chemical Engineering, Hamburg UniVersity of Technology, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany, Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, UniVersity of Amsterdam, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Department of Chemical Engineering, ...

Electronic structure theory such as ab initio molecular orbital (MO) theory is the powerful tool in elucidating chemical phenomena such as electronic states, molecular structures, properties, and reaction mechanisms. The high-level quantum chemical calculations excellently reproduce the properties for small molecules in the same or better accuracy with the experiments. However, the computationa...

The enoyl-ACP reductase enzyme (InhA) from M. tuberculosis is recognized as the primary target of isoniazid (INH), a first-line antibiotic for tuberculosis treatment. To identify the specific interactions of INH-NAD adduct and its derivative adducts in InhA binding pocket, molecular docking calculations and quantum chemical calculations were performed on a set of INH derivative adducts. Reliabl...

We describe new developments of an earlier linear scaling algorithm for ab initio quality macromolecular property calculations based on the adjustable density matrix assembler (ADMA) approach. In this approach, a large molecule is divided into fuzzy fragments, for which quantum chemical calculations can easily be done using moderate-size "parent molecules" that contain all the local interaction...

A classical interaction model for the calculation of molecular polarizabilities has been investigated. The model is described by atomic capacitancies, polarizabilities, and a parameter related to the size of the atom, where one set of parameters has been employed for each element. The model has been parameterized for the elements H, C, N, O, F, and Cl from quantum chemical calculations of the m...

Most high-performance organic solar cells involve bulk-heterojunctions in order to increase the active donor-acceptor interface area. The power conversion efficiency depends critically on the nano-morphology of the blend and the interface. Spectroscopy of the sub-bandgap region, i.e., below the bulk absorption of the individual components, provides unique opportunities to study interface-relate...

We present a formalism for cold and ultracold atom-diatom chemical reactions that combines a quantum closecoupling method at short range with quantum defect theory at long range. The method yields full state-to-state rovibrationally resolved cross sections as in standard close-coupling (CC) calculations but at a considerably less computational expense. This hybrid approach exploits the simplici...