We construct a variational explicit-solute implicit-solvent model for the solvation of molecules. Central in this model is an effective solvation free-energy functional that depends solely on the position of solute-solvent interface and solute atoms. The total free energy couples altogether the volume and interface energies of solutes, the solute-solvent van der Waals interactions, and the solu...

In recent years, the validity of the activation energy barrier crossing model at the micellar surface brings notable controversy (Sen, P.; Mukherjee, S.; Halder, A.; Bhattacharyya, K. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2004, 385, 357-361. Kumbhakar, M.; Goel, T.; Mukherjee, T.; Pal, H. J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 19246-19254.) in the literature. In order to check the validity of the model by time-resolved solva...

The interface between the vapor and liquid phase of quadrupolar-dipolar fluids is the seat of an electric interfacial potential whose influence on ion solvation and distribution is not yet fully understood. To obtain further microscopic insight into water specificity we first present extensive classical molecular dynamics simulations of a series of model liquids with variable molecular quadrupo...

The effects of thermodynamic non-ideality on the forms of sedimentation equilibrium distributions for several isoelectric proteins have been analysed on the statistical-mechanical basis of excluded volume to obtain an estimate of the extent of protein solvation. Values of the effective solvation parameter delta are reported for ellipsoidal as well as spherical models of the proteins, taken to b...

A phenomenological model of electron transfer reactions in solvents undergoing glass transition is discussed. The reaction constant cuts off slow polarization modes from the spectrum of nuclear thermal motions active on the observation time scale. The arrest of nuclear solvation in turn affects the reaction activation barrier making it dependent on the rate. The resultant rate constant is sough...

The spectroscopic data for a range of cyclopenta-[d][1,2,3]-triazine derivative dyes have been evaluated using various standard computational approaches. Absorption these were obtained the ZINDO/S semi-empirical model vertical excitation energies structures optimised with AM1, PM3, and PM6 methods. These studies conducted under vacuum solution states polarisation continuum (PCM) implicit solvat...

The linear pentapeptide, Ala-Tyr-cis-Pro-Tyr-Asp-NMA (AYPYD) is known to have a significant population of type VI turn conformers in aqueous solvent. We have carried out theoretical studies of the conformational energetics of this peptide using a potential of mean force (PMF) consisting of the AMBER/OPLS empirical potential energy function, a macroscopic electrostatic model of polar solvation, ...

Treating water as a linearly responding dielectric continuum on molecular length scales allows very simple estimates of solvation structure and thermodynamics for charged polar solutes. While this approach can successfully account basic energy ion solvation, computer simulations indicate not only its quantitative inaccuracies but also inability to capture some important aspects microscopic pola...

With the large dye molecules employed in typical studies of solvation dynamics, it is often difficult to separate the intramolecular relaxation of the dye from the relaxation associated with dynamic solvation. One way to avoid this difficulty is to study solvation dynamics using an atom as the solvation probe; because atoms have only electronic degrees of freedom, all of the observed spectrosco...

Ž . The electronic excited-state solvation dynamics of coumarin 314 C314 adsorbed at the airrwater interface was Ž . investigated by femtosecond time-resolved surface second-harmonic generation TRSHG . This Letter presents the first use of TRSHG to measure solvation dynamics and presents the theoretical basis for monitoring electronic excited-state solvation with TRSHG. The interfacial electron...