Best‐practice DFT protocols for basic molecular computational chemistry

M Bursch, JM Mewes, A Hansen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, many chemical investigations are supported by routine calculations of molecular
structures, reaction energies, barrier heights, and spectroscopic properties. The lion's share …

Reactivity of covalent fragments and their role in fragment based drug discovery

K McAulay, A Bilsland, M Bon - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fragment based drug discovery has long been used for the identification of new ligands and
interest in targeted covalent inhibitors has continued to grow in recent years, with high …

Efficient quantum chemical calculation of structure ensembles and free energies for nonrigid molecules

S Grimme, F Bohle, A Hansen, P Pracht… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The application of quantum chemical, automatic multilevel modeling workflows for the
determination of thermodynamic (eg, conformation equilibria, partition coefficients, p K a …

Automated molecular cluster growing for explicit solvation by efficient force field and tight binding methods

S Spicher, C Plett, P Pracht, A Hansen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
An automated and broadly applicable workflow for the description of solvation effects in an
explicit manner is introduced. This method, termed quantum cluster growth (QCG), is based …

Beyond continuum solvent models in computational homogeneous catalysis

G Norjmaa, G Ujaque, A Lledós - Topics in Catalysis, 2022 - Springer
In homogeneous catalysis solvent is an inherent part of the catalytic system. As such, it must
be considered in the computational modeling. The most common approach to include …

Computing Kinetic Solvent Effects and Liquid Phase Rate Constants Using Quantum Chemistry and COSMO-RS Methods

Y Chung, WH Green - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many industrially and environmentally relevant reactions occur in the liquid phase. An
accurate prediction of the rate constants is needed to analyze the intricate kinetic …

Efficient quantum-chemical calculations of acid dissociation constants from free-energy relationships

P Pracht, S Grimme - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
The calculation of acid dissociation constants (p K a) is an important task in computational
chemistry and chemoinformatics. Theoretically and with minimal empiricism, this is possible …

[HTML][HTML] COSMO models for the pharmaceutical development of parenteral drug formulations

F Silva, F Veiga, SPJ Rodrigues, C Cardoso… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The aqueous solubility of active pharmaceutical ingredients is one of the most important
features to be considered during the development of parenteral formulations in the …

Solvation free energies in subsystem density functional theory

M Bensberg, PL Türtscher, JP Unsleber… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
For many chemical processes the accurate description of solvent effects are vitally important.
Here, we describe a hybrid ansatz for the explicit quantum mechanical description of solute …

Impacts of noncovalent interactions involving sulfur atoms on protein stability, structure, folding, and bioactivity

V Kojasoy, DJ Tantillo - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This review discusses the various types of noncovalent interactions in which sulfur atoms
participate and their effects on protein stability, structure, folding and bioactivity. Current …