Stereodynamic strategies to induce and enrich chirality of atropisomers at a late stage

CB Roos, CH Chiang, LAM Murray, D Yang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enantiomers, where chirality arises from restricted rotation around a single bond, are
atropisomers. Due to the unique nature of the origins of their chirality, synthetic strategies to …

Towards chemical accuracy for alchemical free energy calculations with hybrid physics-based machine learning/molecular mechanics potentials

DA Rufa, HE Bruce Macdonald, J Fass, M Wieder… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Alchemical free energy methods with molecular mechanics (MM) force fields are now widely
used in the prioritization of small molecules for synthesis in structure-enabled drug discovery …

Quantifying planarity in the design of organic electronic materials

Y Che, DF Perepichka - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Planarity is essential for many organic electronic materials as it maximizes the
intramolecular π‐orbital overlap and enables efficient intermolecular interactions through π …

From desktop to benchtop with automated computational workflows for computer-aided design in asymmetric catalysis

M Burai Patrascu, J Pottel, S Pinus, M Bezanson… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
The organic chemist's toolbox is vast, with technologies to accelerate the synthesis of novel
chemical matter. The field of asymmetric catalysis is one approach to accessing new areas …

Explaining and fixing DFT failures for torsional barriers

S Nam, E Cho, E Sim, K Burke - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Most torsional barriers are predicted with high accuracies (about 1 kJ/mol) by standard
semilocal functionals, but a small subset was found to have much larger errors. We created …

Development and comprehensive benchmark of a high-quality amber-consistent small molecule force field with broad chemical space coverage for molecular …

B Xue, Q Yang, Q Zhang, X Wan, D Fang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular simulations have become an essential tool in contemporary drug discovery,
and molecular mechanics force fields (FFs) constitute its cornerstone. Developing a high …

Conformational Analysis of Conjugated Organic Materials: What Are My Heteroatoms Really Doing?

KJ Thorley, CB Nielsen - ChemPlusChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductor small molecules and polymers often incorporate heteroatoms into
their chemical structures to affect the electronic properties of the material. A particular design …

Capturing non-local through-bond effects when fragmenting molecules for quantum chemical torsion scans

CD Stern, CI Bayly, DGA Smith, J Fass, LP Wang… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Accurate molecular mechanics force fields for small molecules are essential for predicting
protein-ligand binding affinities in drug discovery and understanding the biophysics of …

Use of Extended-Hückel Descriptors for Rapid and Accurate Predictions of Conjugated Torsional Energy Barriers

W Wei, C Champion, SJ Barigye, Z Liu… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Over the past few decades, virtual high-throughput screening (vHTS) and molecular
dynamics simulations have become effective and widely used tools in the initial stages of …

Capturing non-local through-bond effects in molecular mechanics force fields: Ii. using fractional bond orders to fit torsion parameters

CD Stern, J Maat, DL Dotson, CI Bayly, DGA Smith… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Accurate small molecule force fields are crucial for predicting thermodynamic and kinetic
properties of drug-like molecules in biomolecular systems. Torsion parameters, in particular …