Abstract
Solution equilibria are at the core of solvent-catalyzed reactions, solute separations, drug delivery, vapor partitioning and interfacial phenomena. Molecular simulation using thermodynamic integration or perturbation theory allows the calculation of these equilibria from parameterized force field models; however, the statistical many-body nature of solution environments inevitably complicates molecular interpretations of these phenomena. If our goal is molecular understanding in addition to prediction, then the statistical thermodynamic theories designed for mechanistic insight from structural analyses are especially important. In this report, we survey recent advances in the thermodynamic analysis of rigorous local structural models based on chemical structure.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry |
Publisher | Elsevier Ltd |
Pages | 71-127 |
Number of pages | 57 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |
Publication series
Name | Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry |
---|---|
Volume | 8 |
ISSN (Print) | 1574-1400 |
Funding
Part of this material is based upon work supported by Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development and part is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the NSF EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement No. EPS-1003897, with additional support from the Louisiana Board of Regents. Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. LRP thanks Dilip Asthagiri for helpful discussions and collaborations in development of the molecular quasi-chemical approach. SBR thanks Sameer Varma for collaborations in development and applications of QCT to protein-binding sites.
Keywords
- Carbonic anhydrase
- Chelation
- Chemical equilibrium
- Inter-ionic correlations
- Ion coordination
- Ion selectivity
- Partition coefficient
- Poisson-Boltzmann theory
- Potential distribution theory
- Protein-ligand association
- Quasi-chemical theory