Interactions between Phosphate and Water in Solution: A Natural Bond Orbital Based Analysis in a QM/MM Framework
- 29 March 2007
- journal article
- letter
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 111 (16), 3999-4002
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp070706g
Abstract
The natural bond orbital (NBO) and natural energy decomposition analysis (NEDA) calculations are used to analyze the interaction between mono-methyl phosphate-ester (MMP) and its solvation environment in a combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) framework. The solute−solvent configurations are generated using a specific parametrization of the self-consistent-charge density functional tight-binding (SCC-DFTB) model for the MMP and TIP3P for water. The NBO and NEDA calculations are done with several QM/MM partitioning schemes with HF/6-31+G** as the QM level. Regardless of the size of the QM region, a notable amount of charge transfer is observed between MMP and the neighboring water molecules and the charge-transfer interactions are, in the NEDA framework, as important as the electric (electrostatic and polarization) components. This work illustrates that NBO based analyses are effective tools for probing intermolecular interactions in condensed phase systems.Keywords
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