the second virial coefficients are given as a spherical-core contribution plus a series of nonspherical perturbation terms. a revised analysis is given of the effect of long-range nonspherical terms in the intermolecular potential on the second virial coefficient given by a preferred hfdidl spherical core treatment of the integration for small intermolecular distances. this effect is considered...

An anisotropic atom–atom distributed intermolecular force-field (DIFF) for rigid trinitrobenzene (TNB) is developed using multipole moments, dipolar polarizabilities, and dispersion coefficients derived from the charge density of isolated molecule. The short-range parameters are fitted to first- second-order symmetry-adapted perturbation theory dimer interaction energy calculations density-over...

A revised analysis of the effect of long-range nonspherical terms in the intermolecular potential on the second virial coefficient is presented with a preferred Hartree-Fock-Dispersion functional (HFD-C) spherical core treatment of the integrations for small intermolecular distances. A set of modified numerical tables for the accurate calculation of the nonspherical contribution to the sec...

We present an automated, open source toolkit for the first-principles screening and discovery of new inorganic molecules and intermolecular complexes. Challenges remain in the automatic generation of candidate inorganic molecule structures due to the high variability in coordination and bonding, which we overcome through a divide-and-conquer tactic that flexibly combines force-field preoptimiza...

The second virial coefficients are given as a spherical-core contribution plus a series of nonspherical perturbation terms. A revised analysis is given of the effect of long-range nonspherical terms in the intermolecular potential on the second virial coefficient given by a preferred HFDIDl spherical core treatment of the integration for small intermolecular distances. This effect is consid...

Selectin-ligand interactions are crucial to such biological processes as inflammatory cascade or tumor metastasis. How transient formation and dissociation of selectin-ligand bonds in blood flow are coupled to molecular conformation at atomic level, however, has not been well understood. In this study, steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations were used to elucidate the intramolecular and in...

In traditional molecular mechanics force fields, intramolecular non-bonded interactions are modelled as intermolecular interactions, and the form of the torsion potential is based on the conformational profiles of small organic molecules. We investigate how a separate model for the intramolecular forces in pharmaceuticals could be more realistic by analysing the low barrier to rotation of the p...

Schemes of increasing sophistication for obtaining free energies of binding have been developed over the years, where configurational sampling is used to include the all-important entropic contributions to the free energies. However, the quality of the results will also depend on the accuracy with which the intermolecular interactions are computed at each molecular configuration. In this contex...