A series of interaction models for ethylene oxide are developed for use in molecular simulation of the thermal properties of both the gas and liquid phases. While it is possible to develop nonpolarizable models to accurately generate either the gas or liquid properties separately, it was not possible to do so using a single model for both phases. A polarizable, rigid all-atom model was develope...

A new charge model, called Charge Model 4 (CM4), and a new continuum solvent model, called Solvation Model 6 (SM6), are presented. Using a database of aqueous solvation free energies for 273 neutrals, 112 ions, and 31 ion-water clusters, parameter sets for the mPW0 hybrid density functional of Adamo and Barone (Adamo, C.; Barone, V. J. Chem. Phys. 1998, 108, 664-675) were optimized for use with...

Continuum robotic arms that are inspired from nature, have many advantages compared to traditional robots, which motivate researchers in this field. Dynamic modeling and controlling these robots are challenging subjects due to complicated nonlinearities and considerable uncertainties existing in these structures. In this paper, first a dynamic three-dimensional model of the continuum robotic ar...

A polarizable water model, SWM6, was developed and optimized for liquid phase simulations under ambient conditions. Building upon the previously developed SWM4-NDP model, additional sites representing oxygen lone-pairs were introduced. The geometry of the sites is assumed to be rigid. Considering the large number of adjustable parameters, simulated annealing together with polynomial fitting was...

Arsenic is an environmentally ubiquitous health hazard due to its toxicity combined with natural abundance and heavy industrial applications. Due role in cardiovascular disease, neurotoxicity, various cancers, it important understand environmental fate of arsenic-containing compounds take steps towards remediation. Sodium arsenite (NaAsO2) one such compound that has been used worldwide as herbi...

Analytic gradient of the combined conductorlike polarizable continuum model (CPCM) and time-dependent density functional theory method is derived and implemented. Due to the use of the fixed points with variable areas tessellation scheme, the excited state potential energy surfaces (PESs) are rigorously continuous and smooth. The CPCM/TD-B3LYP method is used to study an analog of the photoactiv...

antioxidants are compounds which can prevent biological and chemical substances from oxidative damage by reactive oxygen species. flavonoids are the most important class of polyphenolic compounds that because of their antioxidant characters possess biological activities and pharmacological effects. chrysin-6-c-fucopyranoside and chrysin-3-malonyl-6-c-fucopyranoside are mono c-glycosyl derivativ...

Accounting for solvent effects in theoretical predictions of spectroscopic properties may be significant importance since a solvent—and on more general basis any environment—may influence key parameters nontrivial ways—especially relation to calculation nonlinear optical properties. At the simplest level, included into quantum chemistry calculations by use dielectric continuum approach; however...

Experimental and theoretical absorption spectra of [2-[2-[4-(dimethylamino) phenyl]ethenyl]-6-methyl-4H- pyran-4-ylidene]-propanedinitrile (DCM) have been studied. UV-Visible (UV-Vis.) absorption spectrum of DCM has been reported after its synthesis. Two relatively intense peaks appeared at 473 and 362 nm respectively. A theoretical investigation on the electronic structure of DCM is presented ...