An accurate prediction of hydration free energies by combination of molecular integral equations theory with structural descriptors

Ratkova, Ekaterina L. and Chuev, Gennady N. and Sergiievskyi, Volodymyr P. and Fedorov, Maxim V. (2010) An accurate prediction of hydration free energies by combination of molecular integral equations theory with structural descriptors. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114 (37). pp. 12068-12079. ISSN 1520-6106 (https://doi.org/10.1021/jp103955r)

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Abstract

In this work, we report a novel method for the estimation of the hydration free energy of organic molecules, the structural descriptors correction (SDC) model. The method is based on a combination of the reference interaction site model (RISM) with several empirical corrections. The model requires only a small number of chemical descriptors associated with the main features of the chemical structure of solutes: excluded volume, branch, double bond, benzene ring, hydroxyl group, halogen atom, aldehyde group, ketone group, ether group, and phenol fragment. The optimum model was selected after testing of different RISM free energy expressions on a training set of 65 molecules. We show that the correction parameters of the SDC model are transferable between different chemical classes, which allows one to cover a wide range of organic solutes. The new model substantially increases the accuracy of calculated HFEs by RISM giving the standard deviation of the error for a test set of 120 organic molecules around 1.2 kcal/mol.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:35675
    Dates:
    Date
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    23 September 2010
    Published
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:08 Nov 2011 16:09
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 10:00
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/35675
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